Whatever a RAT proposes always has unintended consequences that they have not thoroughly thought through.
Posted on 08/10/2018 11:02:52 AM PDT by Morgana
The Heights are Sheila Jackson Lee’s wealthy liberal democrat district.
“With no God, liberality decays into profligacy.”
I haven’t noticed a correlation between perversion and lack of religion. So many of the child abusers and other sexual deviants that I’ve been aware of throughout my life have been outspokenly religious - some even priests - I’ve seen no evidence that belief in God has anything to do with it.
My strong but decidedly non-deviant sex drive seems to be something I inherited - and which I have no inclination to deviate from - despite my relatively agnostic views toward religion.
What the heck is wrong with Massachusetts?
More sexual behaviour means more unwanted babies...means more abortions...and more monetary opportunities for planned infanticide. Its a racket.PP needs to be destroyed.
Have you ever checked the percentage of people who were not religous who were known sex offenders with the percentage of known sex offender who were “religious”? I.havent but i guess the non religious would have a much higher percentage....anybody on this site have any citations? Would be very helpful.
GREAT !!!
I would have an employee who can do all kids of kinky sex using kitchen supplies,,,,,,,,,,,,,
but cannot write Cursive-—read-—do math-—or show up properly clean & dressed for a day’s work.
So Impressive.....
I’m not sure what that has to do with any of it.
The bible tells us of “a form of religion, but denying its power.” You can have all the religion in the world but no God with yourself.
Do not make false equivalencies. Look at what I said. I did not say “with no religion.” I said “with no God.”
Bingo.
What is NOW?
Check out Chabad.
National Organization For Women. Kate was a founder and wrote Sexual Politics
Look up her bio on wiki
She was a crazy dyke who wanted to destroy society.
“Do not make false equivalencies. Look at what I said. I did not say “with no religion.” I said “with no God.”
Look at what I said: “I’ve seen no evidence that belief in God has anything to do with it.”
I’ve never seen an actual study, nor do I think it would be possible - for one thing you’d have to take people’s word for it as to how religious they were.
I’m just saying that given the epidemic of pedophile priests molesting alter boys, it’s just silly to claim godlessness is the root cause of sexual deviation.
And then look at what else you said. You went on as if to equate religion to belief in God (at least in the sense that I intend). The way you carried on spoke louder than what you claimed you said.
Or could I put it another way. Look at how people who go to church act. Some act as though it is to say hello and goodbye to God in the sanctuary. Others act as though it is to share the God they already know as a constant presence in their daily lives, with a group of people.
The first is a mere religion. The second is the kind of faith in God I mean, and yes that has a profound effect and there is copious evidence that it does.
Symbolic godliness might in fact be MORE vulnerable, not LESS, to the problem.
The bible already tells us why.
And yes, with some wise investigation you could find out more. “Did you do something kind for a neighbor or a stranger because you believe in God? How often?” would work pretty well, as long as the answers were honest (and granted, they might not be). Acting out of love will get a person doing things that person might be perfunctory about if they are acting out of guilt or out of show.
And if that doesn’t help you... well, I tried. That’s all I can hope to do, is to try.
But it’s not a meaningless question. It’s easy for institutions to put up with the perfunctory superficial. But that means people who do “religion” out of their head, rather than their heart, can sneak in too. Can every case of an impostor be caught? No. But many could, with a church comprising more conscientious people.
It was never my intention to argue belief systems with you.
I simply wanted to remind you that many of us who are of the agnostic persuasion nevertheless have a strong moral compass, and that there are many God fearing people who do not appear to have a strong moral compass, such as the hundreds of pedophile priests.
Of course, those who believe in a god also tend to believe all good must come from that god, and would therefore naturally reject the the idea that an agnostic like me could have a strong moral compass. Yet I do.
Upon further reflection, I see that I was probably wasting my time suggesting such a thing.
Well, except you did. Why are you surprised I did the bible thing?
Your own airy world, based on your own self exaltation, has nothing to do with a Catholic or other Christian world. “God fearing” is not God fearing when it only happens in certain contexts, not in the whole life. Institutions have been sloppy about attending to this, but the bible doesn’t advise such sloppiness, quite the opposite.
Well yes, you will not feed me agnosticism. Agnosticism never did dozens of supernatural things that I directly witnessed.
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