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Autodidact made the comment about empathy. I was responding to that comment. Apparently you didn't understand any of it. Again, my point was that you can't make your mind think like someone that you disagree with. You may want to look up the word "empathy". It's not the...
Let me explain why I said that. You can ask every person in here with the title "Christian" what makes them a Christian, and you'll get many different answers. That is what I was referring to. I've actually done that before. You get answers like "I'm not Jewish, so that makes me a...
There are many people that call themselves Christians for different reasons. If they don't agree with the bible, chances are that they aren't really a Christian.
I would suggest you take your own advice. It's okay for you to not tolerate my beliefs, but if I don't tolerate yours it makes me a bigot. Why does that not make you a bigot?
Can you empathize with something you don't agree with? What about the mom that drowns her kids because she's stressed out? Can you empathize with her? Or the child molester that has a strong desire for little girls... can you empathize with him? You can't put yourself in the shoes of people...
Bigotry? That depends on what you mean by the word. I am devoted to my beliefs, and I don't think I should have to tolerate something I don't believe in. Just because I don't agree with same sex marriage doesn't mean that I hate homosexual people. I don't.
Are you bigoted against...
That would be like me asking you how you would feel if you were someone of the opposite sex, or someone that is a different religion, or a murderer, or a child molester, or a dog. You can't answer that because that's not who or what you are. To guess at how you would think as someone or...
I understand what you're saying. I just don't agree. The bible speaks against homosexuality, but I've never seen anything against mixing the races in the bible. Moses was married to a black woman.