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  1. setarcos

    pope made homophobic slur

    I'm pretty sure I got your point...we only need to flesh out the details between mine and yours apparently. Uh huh...So if a heterosexual says they don't like homosexual acts though they've said nothing about any individual person are they still not labeled as homophobic? It certainly seems...
  2. setarcos

    If a person claiming to be Christ comes today, how do you know it is really *not* him?

    Don't say what? That Allah can be merciful? I beg to differ I think they do....The Koran calls Allah "the most merciful" for instance. No...its freely given by God. That's why his mercy is a grace to humankind. Gods mercy is Gods mercy not because it must be given. Its mercy because it is...
  3. setarcos

    pope made homophobic slur

    This is exactly why calling every dissenter a homophobe is just a meaningless politicized ploy when used as a derogatory term. By the above description, every homosexual has to be a heterophobe since by definition they must not like heterosexuality since they are homosexual. If they liked...
  4. setarcos

    If a person claiming to be Christ comes today, how do you know it is really *not* him?

    Who says? God by its graces can be merciful and does forgive but humans generally tend to muck all that up.
  5. setarcos

    If a person claiming to be Christ comes today, how do you know it is really *not* him?

    Thanks for sharing scripture with me. So...come, let us reason together. The Christian belief is that scripture shows from Genesis through to Revelation there is an unfolding of history the pivotal point of which is Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross and the culmination of which is Jesus...
  6. setarcos

    If a person claiming to be Christ comes today, how do you know it is really *not* him?

    Briefly, since you've asked a metaphysical question I will give you a metaphysical answer. Christian belief is that upon Christs return every eye shall be opened, every tongue shall profess Christ's authority. That kind of recognition - in theory will be imparted as a direct revelatory Grace...
  7. setarcos

    pope made homophobic slur

    Yes really. For reasons I've tried to explain, the term has been rendered farcical by its attempted use as a derogatory statement about those who disagree with homosexual practices. The terms substantive meaning can be applied to everyone. It may be useful as a distinguishing label for a...
  8. setarcos

    pope made homophobic slur

    I'm not. That would be an impossible task. I do care about offending others. However since its impossible not to offend unintentionally -after all it’s unintentional- I can only empathize with those offended. There is no change that can be made. As I've been saying...debate is offensive. It’s...
  9. setarcos

    pope made homophobic slur

    I don't agree. You’re not going to eliminate racism by magically disappearing racists. That's because people misidentify or ignore ALL the factors that keeps racism alive most of which is insidious. One of those factors is that many of those who feel racially persecuted are the ones that ensure...
  10. setarcos

    pope made homophobic slur

    Being generally concerned that I will inevitably offend someone for something I did is a feeling all decent people should have. Being specifically concerned with not offending everyone all the time would mean no dialogue at all could ever take place. Feeling concern in the form of empathy or...
  11. setarcos

    pope made homophobic slur

    Agreed...and I believe some literally have plastic brains. My opinion. Not sure how you mean personal? All human action is personal at some level. Even coming from those who robotically claim to be acting on behalf of someone else's desires not their own. I agree, you should be ready for the...
  12. setarcos

    pope made homophobic slur

    First of all...that organization -as the theory dictates- is not in charge of dictating the consequences. God is. (In their understanding) Second it would be illogical to presume it is moral/ethical for an organization to break its own rules which it sees as governed by moral/ethical imperatives...
  13. setarcos

    pope made homophobic slur

    That is a logical fallacy. That aside...I didn't nor do insist that homosexuality is merely a lifestyle choice. It may very well be a hard wired sexual orientation determinant. However, that alone does not indicate its inevitable practice. If it did then every little urge that somebody has would...
  14. setarcos

    pope made homophobic slur

    Yeah...been down that road and I can't definitively disagree with you...it does seem to be little more than a fad faze with some people though. I've literally heard people talk about using their college time for instance as a period to explore their sexuality. As if one goes through a period in...
  15. setarcos

    pope made homophobic slur

    What isn't a homophobic slur if it shows dissention or disagreement with that lifestyle? Homophobia has become a political ploy in my opinion with all kinds of people taking a nibble at it in order to serve their own personal agendas or vendettas. Every little disagreeing or disparaging remark...
  16. setarcos

    We hold these truths...

    Are they though? For instance, how do you enforce the right to life when incalculable possibilities of things which could have had life but didn't remain unknown? You cannot enforce an unknown. What we can attempt to enforce is the right for an existent living thing to continue to live and...
  17. setarcos

    We hold these truths...

    Why does a person have the right not to be enslaved? I would presume most peoples idea of enslavement is the total control of one person/people over another. Yet we are all born into enslavement even if not by others of like kind. The natural tendency is towards enslavement of one form or...
  18. setarcos

    We hold these truths...

    I'm not sure about the self-evident portion. What exactly makes a right self evident? For instance I look at some individuals and I'm thinking that they should have absolutely no right to exist. Their destructive, self serving, and negative in nearly all mutually beneficial criteria one might...
  19. setarcos

    We hold these truths...

    Sorry for the delay...they wouldn't let me near a computer in the psych ward. Any who... Why do we have a right to life? What does that mean? Do we acquire all rights meritoriously? If so how? Seems to me you can't do anything to acquire a right before you exist but we seem to be saying that we...
  20. setarcos

    We hold these truths...

    "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are..." I presume most people on here are familiar with these words from the U.S. Declaration of Independence. I propose this...
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