I also remember that not everyone believes as I do. I would love for everyone to believe in Christ, but they don't. I don't force my beliefs on anyone. I convey what I believe, hope they understand it, want to believe like I do, but forcing someone to be "Christian" doesn't make it so. In fact I find it turns more away from Christ.
You know, it's this sort of weak sauce nonsense that irks me to no end.
I don't have a conscience, having long ago slipped it a Valium and selling it to a Singaporean whorehouse, but I presume in the Christian ethos I have an immortal soul.
Yet, you would spend more time trying to win my vote before you would try to win my soul.
I also don't get the gay hatred. I am not gay. Could never be. I just don't find females attractive in that way.
What if I came over with a bottle of Boone's Farm, some movies and a couple of friends?
I could never force myself to. I can't imagine that someone born straight would/could force themselves to like the opposite sex. One--how do you force yourself to like something that you really don't? Two--Why would you choose that? It isn't exactly an easy choice to make.
Any first year anthropology student will tell you homosexuality can be an acculturated trait.
Gay people get lambasted. It isn't exaclty the life I would choose if it were an option.
Plenty of people get "lambasted." Try being a conservative someday. From what I've been told--to my face--I'm too stupid to know 9/11 was an inside job, Bush stole the election...twice, I hate muslims without cause, I hate blacks because I disagree with ObamaCoup, I hate Mexicans because I support enforcement, I hate kids because the schools are abject failures, I hate poor people because unions are labor monopolies, I hate America because I think we spend too much money on bullshit, I hate our troops because I support their mission.
I long to have a liberal with the honesty and the balls to accept me at my word and actual hash out a dialogue with me rather than use the word "hate" as an excuse to avoid the argument they know they can't win.
Three--and most importantly to me-- God didn't put me here to judge others. Sure, I have to make judgments every day. Against people many times. And I probably err more than I don't. But I try to live my life according to how I feel God wants me to, and He will deal with the rest. After all, God put each and everyone of us here. We are all His people.
Sounds more like you want guilt-free sin. The Jesus you believe in is weak and contemptible. If God wants to die for my sins that's heart-touching enough to move even me but unless that God is also willing to allow me to stand up, deny that gift and allow me to accept the consequences then...well...he's a ***** and what do I have to be impressed by?
Try sinning my way for a while. It was asked rhetorically once, "Are we under grace so that sin may abound?" You seem to like what you do/have done but like being absolved even more. Indulgences were invented for people like you.
At least my way you'll be honest and I'll stop having the bad, bad visions that make it hard to type every time I read this nonsense.
We can argue until the cows come home about how you interpret God's word and how I do. It has been the bane of human existence basically. How many religious battles have been fought?
Makes one wonder why God ever bothered to write the damned thing in the first place.
The whole point of this was giving blood. I don't want tainted blood given to anyone. I also don't want to throw away a lot of good blood either. Testing needs to be up to par so that everyone who has clean blood can donate.
Yes, well, I can't donate blood because I served in Germany before they had a handle on Mad Cow Disease. Even though I'm pretty sure I had sexual relations with a cow.
I think.
Mostly.
