"But wouldn't that mean that he and they were but the manifestation of evil?"
Yes. But we are less sensitive to evil in the world.
There is so much evil we are shutting down so we can somehow make sense of our daily lives.
The young man writing the posted article is in real pain.
He is trying to justify his existence by challenging our right to healthy lives.
He is influenced by his destructive life-style.
He wants to make everyone who does not share his demon; suffer for not wanting to share the illness of homosexuality.
<< But wouldn't that mean that he and they were but the manifestation of evil?
</rhetorical questions> >>
You may have missed the << </rhetorical questions> >>
part of my ironic/sarcastic post.
Insofar as the rest of your post, to whit:
<< Yes. But we are less sensitive to evil in the world.
There is so much evil we are shutting down so we can somehow make sense of our daily lives.
The young man writing the posted article is in real pain.
He is trying to justify his existence by challenging our right to healthy lives.
He is influenced by his destructive life-style.
He wants to make everyone who does not share his demon; suffer for not wanting to share the illness of homosexuality. >>
Is concerned, though, I would say that -- except that I take evil very very very seriously indeed and am extremely sensitive to it -- you and I are reading from the same place on the same page of the same Book.
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