There's nothing wrong with the beliefs of such, only when they force their dislike upon those who practice it, such as the executions and denials of service we see arouind the world. No, I don't feel superior to other people, that is not who I am.
If I build a business, I can decide to keep whomever I want out of it. If I don't want 35-year olds in my business (all other ages welcome), I can keep 35-year olds out of my business. If I don't want asians in my business, I can keep them out of my place of business.
My loss.
Go to Korea. Go to any Arab nation. It is in the nature of people to discriminate; so much so that they will turn away perfectly good business transactions while doing so.
This is why the government should be given only power that is absolutely essential to make it functional, and nothing more.
This is childish tongue-in-cheek that gets nowhere. If heterosexual couples receive benefits, why shouldn't homosexual couples and make society more equal?
Honestly couldn't care less. Why? I'm one of the guys pounding your collective rectums whether you had lube or not - I still win and you're still taking it in the rear.
That you've lowered yourself to thinking that being allowed to use lube is progressive is a testament to the slave you've become.
By using its government to provide equality to those who are unequal. 1960s society was not pleasant when we had the Civil Rights Act created, but it took time for the people to grow out of their foolish bigotry.
Actually, plenty of evidence indicates that society was already well on its way towards tolerance - even before the Civil Rights Act.
I would actually say that the Civil Rights Act has ultimately panned out to be the greatest disservice to those who were experienced prejudism. Why? Because at least two full generations grew up under the idea that they were entitled. They were given things they didn't work for because the government wanted to "make things equal." They were employed based on the color of their skin to fill quotas for Equal Opportunity qualifications.
That concept of entitlement poisoned their minds. Now, when they get treated equally - they think they are being discriminated against and like to try and cite the grievances of people they share no blood history with (the African slaves) to gain political leverage.
Change doesn't come from the government. Change comes from the people who form that government.
Trying to go about it in reverse is always going to lead to problems.
You must have not read the article, then. Homosexuals who were not recognized as a legal couple received higher estate taxes (because they were not recognized as a couple), something that would have been lower were they recognized (like Heterosexual couples!). This UNEQUAL and UNFAIR for couples, something I was trying to get at in these last two posts. It's beating around the bush when they do not get the benefits heterosexual couples receive.
Son, I was pointing this out back when homosexuals were all parroting about how it was a great day for equality that homosexuals were allowed into the military. Under federal law, they are not allowed to have many of the same benefits as heterosexual couples.
I was told to shut up and declare it some great success that would make our country into some perfect little haven.
If you would actually shut up long enough to listen to what I'm asking you - you'd maybe learn something.
What I'm saying is very, very simple:
Why does the government have the authority to decide whether or not to grant special tax status to two people who live together?
Why can I not, upon death, pass my possessions (including bank accounts) on to whomever I want without the government having to make a decision on how big of a portion of it to take away from them?
Why is the national government getting involved in the individual affairs of its citizens when its original function was to govern the States and initially forbidden from entering into the lives of individual citizens unless it pertained to the State?
What if I, and three women, decide to live under the same roof and have our last names changed to the same, and I sire children with all of them? What tax status does that qualify them for? What legal rights do we all have to each other (such as being able to see them in the hospital?)
You're sitting here, trying to argue which version of the rules we should be using in this game.
I'm wondering why the hell we're wasting time and energy playing a game that is, obviously, causing so much conflict.
there is no such thing as invitation to heaven. heaven is your HOME. if your heart decides to seek and accept it.
jesus back then was hanging out with whores and thieves, because many of them didnt knew about god message,
now he gave people the last chance to reverse their lifes back into what it should have been in the beginning of what life god gave to adam and eve.
You... haven't really read the Bible, have you? If you did, you would be putting together more intelligible sentences, for starters (monkey-see; monkey-do). Second, you would realize that this is not, at all, what Jesus came to do.
Jesus came to save people from the system the Pharisee had developed.
Many Jews thought that the Messiah would come and save them from Rome - to make them an independent nation once again. This is why Jesus was brought before Pontious Pilate, the Roman Governor of the region. Pilate had, through Jesus' life, ordered Roman legions to snuff out entire towns that had rallied to support would-be messiahs promising to lead the Jews to a military victory over Rome. Pilate found Jesus innocent under Roman Law (which has been construed by the Church to mean free from all sin).
Jesus hung out with people who had been cast out of Jewish society by the Pharisee and the system at large. They were people who were condemned; seen as unclean; and certainly seen as unfit to be a part of any heaven.
Jesus
broke the laws and customs established by the Pharisee. That would be akin to going against the Catholic Church during the Renaisance. It got many people killed in both time frames. Jesus was in a unique position because he was a direct descendant of King David and from a powerful family (another thing you don't often hear in Church - they try to make it sound like he was some street rat when he was, in fact, from a noble family).
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religion is not to teach people how to live their life, it is to help people and guide them into the right path after they are done living their life. but what ever happens in the middle of it, is up to them.
Religion is a system established by men.
Spirituality is the individual development of belief in the meaning behind life and what lies beyond what we can currently experience.
