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RicOlie_2
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The Controversial Discussions Thread (Was "The Prejudice Discussion Thread" (Was "The Human Sexuality Discussion Thread" (Was "The Homosexuality Discussion Thread")))
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23-Dec-2013, 11:22 PM

TV's Frink said:

RicOlie_2 said:

To use a well known saying: "the truth hurts." You can say that whatever makes you feel good is right, but then you are just avoiding admitting that you might be wrong (yeah, this could be aimed back at me, so maybe I shouldn't have made this post, but I think the truth does hurt and I think it is the truth that homosexual acts are wrong).

Just for fun, let's pretend I have a book called the Bloof.  My God spoke to man years and years and years ago, and proclaimed that all must follow the Bloof.  The Bloof specifically says that Catholicism is a false religion and any who follow it are doomed to eternity in hell.  Further, it is my duty as a chosen Bloofite to convince Catholics that they are wrong and living against the wishes of God.  I am utterly convinced in the word of my God as recorded in the Bloof.

I love you as a fellow human being, but the way you are living your life is wrong.

How does that make you feel?  Do you appreciate my wanting to save you from hell for following a false God?

 I have encountered such people and they are more commonly known as Muslims as Warbler said/wrote. I understand the way they think in that regard, though I don't believe it, but I am not offended in the least. My family hires Mennonites who believe we're all going to hell, but they're nice people and I accept their beliefs as well. I'm happy that they want me to go to heaven, and I am even happier when they are persistent (if it is passive persistence and they aren't trying to convert me on pain of death), since they are showing that they care about other people (unless they're doing it for their own spiritual gain).

EDIT: By "accept" I mean that I accept it in the way I might accept that the SE is messed up and we will probably never get a pristine quality version of the unaltered originals , but I still hope and petition for the originals to be released in good quality.