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  Re: Censorship and the Right to Not Be Offended  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 10 Jan 2009 16:56:47
Message: <4969199f$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> Patrick Elliott <sel### [at] npgcablecom> wrote:
>> Well, one thing is certain, being "forced" to by family, or even
>> abandoned/thrown out, according to studies, causes a "drastic" increase
>> in drug abuse, high risk sex, and other negatives. Basically, if you
>> treat someone like shit for who they are, they feel like shit, and the
>> worse you treat them, the more they seek "other" things to distract them
>> from your hate.
> 
> I take it Papa Hussein should have been more encouraging of his sons
> decapitations and tortures. :P
> 
Huh?? What is it with some people and entirely unrelated and patently 
false comparisons. Oh, right.. I keep forgetting, one of the problems 
"believers" seem to have is that mass murder and torture is exactly 
equivalent to sucking another mans dick, which I suppose must, but the 
same insane definition, make someone that snuck a grape from the grocery 
store the equivalent of Pol Pot.

>> Those that "are" accepted by their families, however,
>> show no more risk in any of these factors than a "straight" person in a
>> loving family. Odd that, if what they where doing what so "twisted and
>> wrong", as some people would suggest, that every other kind of sin would
>> logically follow...
> 
> Why other kinds of sin when you already have a pet one? ;)
> 

Sorry, I don't find your comment the least bit wink worthy. The two 
combined show a entirely black and white, shallow, narrow minded (And 
not just because you refuse to follow the evidence where it leads, 
instead of believing in the words in some book written by people that 
thought the world was a flat disc. Don't bother arguing that one, the 
word used in the ancient version *is* disc, not "ball", which is a 
distinctly different word.), bigot. Tell me, why is it again that, if 
the Bible is right about this stuff, you don't also advocate stoning 
disobedient children to death, or selling your daughter to pay off 
debts, among the other atrocities in the same passages that you get your 
definitions of, "God doesn't like gays", from? Just wondering...

Natural is what is observed to be natural, not what the Babble insists 
must be. You people have been trying the later for 2,000 years as the 
defacto religion in control over much of the world, and thousands of 
years prior, with a track record of being dead wrong on pretty much 
every single thing it has ever "claimed" to be true, except those that 
just happen to coincide with the values and beliefs of people that have 
"other" religions, or none at all. Every time it has spoken as authority 
on something that it disagrees with about how the world works, people 
act, and what to do about it, *Christianity* ends up changing to conform 
to the real world, then makes up excuses for why it didn't actually get 
anything at all wrong, it was just some other "less enlightened sect" 
that got it wrong (even if the sect in question is like.. the original 
one, as in the case of all the times the Catholics have had to back 
peddle on things, and continue to do so.)

But why am I bothering to argue with you about it. As a general rule, 
those who can't see where they "may" be wrong are invariably impervious 
to all arguments, facts, evidence, or even, in some cases, their own 
religions "general" acceptance of something. That is why you get 70-80% 
moderates in Christianity, and some much smaller number of people that 
spend their time calling all the rest of them "false" Christians because 
they chose true morality over vain obsessions over who they think is the 
#1 greatest sinners in the world at the moment. And, its always gays, 
atheist, free thinkers, liberals, hippies, or some other group that 
isn't like them that is the *greatest evil*, even while fracking mass 
murderers sit in a cave some place and thumb their noses at "everything" 
they believe in, not just nit picky BS that a century from now the 
church will be making some non-apology to, for being unnecessarily mean.

I just don't comprehend how some people think...

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