Quote Originally Posted by Pancho View Post
I am pretty much with you, I think . I feel you on Jesus meeting with and enter acting but do you think he would willingly tell them it's okay to be the way they are? He would always say to go and sin no more because I do not remember a passage stating to go and continue in sin. I think that probably covers the gays and trans and muslims you mention too. I know folks who are gays and trans and muslims etc and from my experience it is them who isn't very accepting of others but maybe that is just me and the gays and trans and muslims I know. maybe they all aren't that way? are you advocating that we as US citizens shouls accept the views of ISIS?
You started off decent and then ended up at a roundabout straw-man that's kinda weird. But I think you're being genuine today because that's the wordiest i've ever seen you comment. (I know that might read sarcastic, and I apologize for that if it does. I do mean that earnestly.)

I've met plenty of people of all different creeds, colors, and orientations. Plenty good. Plenty bad. It's never a pattern of any one thing that's good or bad. Hell, the worst person I had the displeasure of meeting in my life was someone else at State. A cis-gender white man. But, a gay man. And let me tell you, this dude sucked (and I'm not talking bout cocks, Cuck34 so you can stop reading this now). Now he was friend of friends cause I knew a few that rolled through parties back in college and somehow he was in good with some of the college ladies who got their tuition paid from working at the Pony. (The amount of strippers with a token gay best friend I've met since college is astonishing. I both understand and do not understand the dynamic, whatever.) I tried giving this dude multiple chances. I thought "he's a product of his upbringing. have to be tough. have to hate straight white men cause he was bullied his whole life." I thought maybe it's just a self fulfilling prophecy. Bigots hate gays and the gay man acts more flamboyant to piss off the bigots who hate the gay guy more who becomes more flamboyant... But as I came to know em more, I learned - dude was just awful. Break point was when he outed another friend of mine who was very much in the closet publicly. Now this person still one of the greatest men I've have the pleasure to be friends with. The pure hatred to do something so vile as that - I accepted that all walks of life just have an evil man.

Now this is where the Bible and I stop seeing eye to eye and there's plenty better Christians than me. Love thy Neighbor? Agreed. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone? Agreed. But love someone even if they are pure evil and hate your guts and want to murder you and will do it if given the opportunity? There's a reason Jesus is up on the cross and forgiving those who killed him and ole Tater ain't. He's a better man than me.

So ISIS? **** no, **** them.

But Trans / Gay people? Man who cares what the **** someone wants to do with a hidden appendage in the comfort of their own home.

People who flout their sexuality and make it their entire personality? Agreed I don't care to see that shit personally and will take my business elsewhere. That's why I was friends with the girls from the Pony, but never stepped in there. Keep that shit in the bedroom.

Does God really care about the bedroom? Some parts of the Old Testament seem to think so. New testament retcons it. I think there's bigger fish to fry when it comes to sinning (specifically shellfish iykyk). False Idols (Celeb worship), Judging, Hatred, Murder... they just feel "worse" to me. Sure you can say all sin is sin. But I'll just agree to disagree. If God thinks that some guy murdering 15+ on Bourbon street deserves the same exact eternal damnation as some dude kissing another dude... I'll lodge a complaint at the gate, call me a Karen idc.

Now, does that mean I wanna walk amongst it? No, not really. I want good friends. Now I agree it's weird when a girl shaves half her head and dies the other half neon green. I ain't interested and would rather talk to her brunette friend. But does she deserve eternal damnation for expressing herself and how she feels by altering a bodily appendage? Does the man who cuts his dick off to become a woman deserve it? Do I deserve it for shaving my beard? Does a soldier deserve it for losing his arm in battle? Where is the line there? I don't think there should be one.

And the trans bathroom / sports debate is so overblown. We can agree IF someone is doing that to get access to the girl's bathrooms or just to win a women's sport, there's nuance and they are a shitty shitty person. But most everyone of em I meet just want to feel happy, be loved, and enjoy life.

Unfortunately we meet assholes in plenty of spots. A sad truth is I've met the worst gays in the places where it's least tolerated. Living in Wisconsin - half of them that are gay you wouldn't even know it. Down in Mississippi every one of em is obvious. Again I don't know if it's that self fulfilling prophecy or what, but experience other places and it'll make more sense.

To wrap it up. **** ISIS, but that doesn't mean every Muslim is bad. I think the teachings of Islam are shit. But every walk of life will show you good and bad people. The internet shows you the worst.