Avoid sects, groups, faiths, and churches. The holy spirit fills the world with love. Find it inside you, and pray however you may wish.
"What you seek is already here; but you know it not."
Please reread what I wrote. Homosexuality is obscene and disgusting in the eyes of the overwhelming majority WHETHER OR NOT they are willing to let queers do their thing safely.
Why?
Because if a man walks up to a man at random and proposes homosexual sex, the overwhelming majority -- nine in...
The inclusion of freedom of religion in its constitution is the single biggest mistake any political entity can possibly make.
Not because people should somehow be banned from following the stirring of their heart. It cannot be done in any case.
But because it allows well-thought-out...
Since there's no clear consensus among the world's medical establishments on whether or not the foreskin is "essential", I will treat it as essential indeed.
And you are very wrong. I am not vilifying circumcision. I am vilifying circumcisers.
You are flatly wrong when you say the usage is incorrect.
Mutilate:
(1)to deprive of a limb, essential part, etc; maim; dismember
(2) to mar, expurgate, or damage (a text, book, etc)
mutilation - WordReference.com Dictionary of English
I've already posted my opinion about medically necessary procedures a few pages back. Take the time to read it before you ask hard-hitting questions that hit air.
But to answer your question: yes, it is still a mutilation.
An amputation of a gangrenous leg is a mutilation as well. A hideous...
The action is obscene and despicable for a very simple reason that has nothing to do with any god or gods: it is something that the absolute and overwhelming majority feel gross revulsion about doing, regardless of whatever minority rights they are willing to grant to people they will shoo away...
Next you'll be calling all straights bigoted because they rule out ******* the same sex.
And from there it's a shot and deliciously justified leap to homophobia.
I am not at all certain that the hard-core materialists are all wrong.
They say they don't have a soul. Who knows? Maybe they are absolutely correct. Perhaps some of them are just meat-machines out to do whatever it is meat-machines do under whatever physical laws they pretend constrain them...
Just because you will be a few pounds of rotten flesh, quite happily and deservedly forgotten by the world, does not mean everyone is like you -- or wants to be.
Is someone repelled by sleeping with people shorter than 5-feet tall a bigot? I mean, physically repelled by it? Perhaps because they are uncomfortable with doing it with someone short enough to be a minor? Or whatever else? SUch as, perhaps, people who are drama queens, hysterics, mentally...
Whatever the meaning of jealous -- red in the face, fervent, zealous, passionate, and so on -- it is an adjective that only demeans a would-be universal creator.
Anyway, the extermination campaigns attributed to the YHWH demon are quite enough to put it in its rightful place. Worship if if you...
I trust the various translations are reasonably close enough.
The Amorites, Midian, and Amalekites among others were basically exterminated under orders from a deity that freely admits to being vengeful and jealous. Now if that deity chose some tribe, or more likely that tribe chose that...
But that's just the point, Quintessence. Why question anyone's beliefs? Why nitpick their inconsistencies? Why express the hope they learn anything of anyone else's point of view?
Do you feel your existence is somehow justified by doing so?