I think you’ve all given Dr Chuckie a warm Pit welcome, but I do have one comment to make, based on his remarks in the thread referenced in the OP.
Oh, to the contrary, my friend. You certainly are! Specifically, the second of the two pointed out by Jesus in Luke 10:25-28 as being the two most important. Also, having examined your website, I’m appalled at the misrepresentations it contains – do you feel that lying about other people is justified in those circumstances?
His4Ever, if I ever told these people what I thought they wanted to hear, instead of the truth of Jesus Christ couched in the language of fraternal love for all, then you should condemn me for it. I pray that I never have.
**How can you be sure it isn’t you that is applying the wishful thinking; how can you be sure that right now, God’s spirit isn’t crying out to you “It’s only a book, love one another, strive toward perfcet love, that’s all I require” and that it is actually you that is having itchy ears scratched simply because hyper-fundamentalism and literalism is what you want to hear? How can you be sure?
**Again, how can you be sure you’re not watering down the true message with all this legalistic (and highly selective, I might add) stuff, how can you be sure?
I just want to say that I don’t want to live in a world without sodomy—and if Heaven is even half as great as you try to make it out to be, Sodomy would be a daily thing.
By coincidence, I’m emceeing the Central Ohio Sacrificial Goat Roast and Soil Fertility Dance at noon tomorrow. DrChuckie is free to inhale any fumes that might waft his way.
Presumably only a daily thing for those that desire it? I don’t want to live in a world without hot fudge sundaes, but I wouldn’t dream of making them compulsory.
Well, the way I figure, sodomy includes oral sex, and I can’t imagine why anybody would turn down oral sex…but hey, if oral sex isn’t your thing, nobody will force you.
His4Ever, I’m sure you’re a very nice person, but the sheer breadth of your ignorance on this subject is mind-boggling. I know you think you’re sharing the Good News and all that jazz, but be advised that ridiculous and easily refuted crap like the above not only doesn’t make a dent in my atheism, it strengthens it. In other words, your attempts at Witnessing are counterproductive, having exactly the opposite effect from what you intend. Nice work.
Sticking your head in a hole and talking to yourself is not a debate.
DrChuckie, I challenge you to come up with a citation from a reputable source (a professional archaeological journal would be good) that supports your claims. You’re quoting of “The Goddess Revival” is simply Pagan-bashing Chrisitians dressed up to look reputable.
No, we like and respect Polycarp because he’s an intelligent person who’s obviously given much time and thought to his beliefs and the reasons behind them, unlike yourself. His4Ever, you’re nothing but a parrot. You quote Bible verses without ever understanding them or the context (social and historical) in which they were said and recorded.
“Squawk! Squawk! Quote the Bible! Quote the Bible!”
Well, crap. Here I thought I was making a funny, and I didn’t even notice that Eve had made the same exact joke a mere three posts above. Sorry Eve, didn’t mean to rip off your material! Oh well, either great minds think alike or lame minds like mine steal from the best.
Anyway, I’m not a homosexual, but I guess technically I’m a sodomite, and I certainly have no plans to accept this Christ fellow as either my lord nor my saviour. So, I’m wondering… just in case loons like Dr. Chucklehead are right, should we start planning HellDope? I can tell you one thing, it’ll be the best dopefest ever!
I think what DrChuckie thinks he is speaking out against is not freedom to be homosexual or such, but his perception that the evil Gay Agenda [TM] is trying to put homosexuality on some sort of pedestal. He feels, rightly or wrongly, that gays are pushing to make Heather Has Two Mommies into required reading in elementary schools, to force children to take school-sponsored courses in butt-fucking, etc…
Gay people want to not be harassed, not be beaten up, not be killed, not be refused work or fired from jobs because of who they love, not be refused a place to live because of who they love, want to be able to marry the person they love, want to be able to write wills that won’t be contested by the families that rejected them for being gay (but who are legally their next of kin), want to be able to visit their beloved in the hospital when he/she is ill, want to have their sex lives not declared illegal, want pseudo-Christians like Dr Chuckie and the woman he works for to stop lying about them, – want, in short, equal rights to those the rest of us already have. Anybody who takes what Jesus said seriously, as opposed to considering it just one piece of an Infallible Book in which they put their trust, ought to be supporting them.
Sadly, gobear, I hear tell it’s cheesy Wal*Mart plates that stain when wet, past-date Budweiser, and the 2nd and 3rd Starland Vocal Band albums on cassette.
Pit welcome, but I do have one comment to make, based on his remarks in the thread referenced in the OP.