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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Do you hear nothing, Jade? I did not say I advocate Gay Marriage. The closest to that that I have come is stating that it is the church that has issues allowing gays to enter into an official union with each other. Civil Unions are recognized in several states. What I advocate is a live and let live mentality that shows we are capable of being decent to each other and better than society makes us. I don't think you are going to hell because you don't accept the gay lifestyle. I think you are going to hell because you don't live like Christ. You don't act like someone who aspires to live like Christ, which is the best that we can do. To act in accordance with your presumption of Gods will is to sin in pride that you know the will and way of God. I am not aware of an instance of Christ badgering the unwilling into submission. Christ arrived, Christ spoke. The willing came, the unwilling didn't. Christ moved on. Can you not live your life in such a graceful way? Akin to what Ramasax is saying... I have an analogy for you. Proselytization should be something like this: A Christian in the far distance is yelling something to me. I can't make it all out but if I am interested i will move closer to hear more. Now that I am closer the Christian speaks loudly enough for me to hear. If i like what i hear I'll move closer so i can hear more. Now that I am closer still the Christian talks to me and lets me know what I need to know. His final whisper to me as he pulls me near is that I must make my own choice and that God loves me always. Proselytization as it is today: A Christian in the far distance is screaming at me. I choose not to listen so the Christian moves closer. The Christian is still screaming at me, close enough now that my head hurts. I ignore the Christian. The Christian stands in front of me. The Christian screams at me still until I go deaf to the Christians words. The basic moral of this analogy is that the bible teaches us that the willing are won over with a nudge, not a shove and the unwilling aren't won over at all. You still don't get the point, Jade. Yes, I have cared for people with aids (not to the physical extent you have but no matter), the only difference was that it was a heterosexual person I cared for. Their sexual persuasion aside... we both cared for sick people... is that supposed to make us more righteous, more correct? It doesn't. It is our duty by faith or basic human decency. Yes, I care for people. I hope they prove to me that we, as a species, can improve. I also accept them for who and what they are and let them be that despite my preferences. But... to answer your initial question, Jade. My God is all Gods. Lack of proof distills to freedom of choice. I choose God, the only God, of many faces and one message accepted by most in the fashion that helps them be better people. So, Yes, My God is the Theological Ideal of the Christian God and I follow the examples set forth in the bible and the tenets of the christian faith. I try and follow the major tenets and Theological Ideals of all faiths... after all the research I have done (admittedly, I've forgotten a lot of it) most religions, even the man created ones (which would be most religions) say basically the same thing. "Be nice to one another and you will be rewarded." I believe that statement has been true for far longer than we were able to write that it was truer than someone elses version of it. GD [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/2337]GrythusDraconis[/url] on 11-11-2008 03:36)[/small] Loading...
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