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To: mbarker12474

I can offer a historical argument.

In the AD 60s the Roman Emperor Nero married another man. He then did it again some years later. This was in a civilized, urban, technologically sophisticated, completely pagan culture where almost anything went theologically and where Christians were not only a minimal factor, they were being fed to the lions.

It didn’t catch on. My question to liberals always is...why not? Why did the Empire eventually turn Christian, instead of following in Nero’s stead?

I submit because whether people admit or not, whether we can theologically explain it or not, there is *something* inherently self-destructive about homosexuality which ends up collapsing in on itself. *If* it worked, it would have securely established itself all over the world long before now. It hasn’t. There is some contrary pressure against it—a pressure that is not rooted in theology but rooted perhaps in human nature itself.


43 posted on 11/21/2012 4:47:54 PM PST by Claud
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To: Claud
It didn’t catch on. My question to liberals always is...why not? Why did the Empire eventually turn Christian, instead of following in Nero’s stead?

Because a brutal whoreson murderer said so. After which the Roman Empire pretty much turned to crap.

And but for a chance spearthrust during the Battle of Samarra, it might have turned out really differently.

45 posted on 11/21/2012 7:44:46 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth" - Voltaire)
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