Then why does the secular side need raw emotion to silencing of free speech to bans to using the force of government to advance?To be completely honest I don’t know a single Catholic teaching. I don’t remember being taught any in Catholic school. I doubt due to various news stories and other things that are fishy. Also I trust in facts and the secular side has more in facts than the Christian side.
Alright. Then let’s start with the basics and work our way up then. What about Catholicism makes you stay with it and not go to a Protestant denomination?To be completely honest I don’t know a single Catholic teaching. I don’t remember being taught any in Catholic school. I doubt due to various news stories and other things that are fishy. Also I trust in facts and the secular side has more in facts than the Christian side.
Family obligation.Alright. Then let’s start with the basics and work our way up then. What about Catholicism makes you stay with it and not go to a Protestant denomination?
“Facts” like there’s more than one gender? “Facts” like gender is fluid?To be completely honest I don’t know a single Catholic teaching. I don’t remember being taught any in Catholic school. I doubt due to various news stories and other things that are fishy. Also I trust in facts and the secular side has more in facts than the Christian side.
Why does it bother you so much with gender being fluid? Are you directly being harmed by it? Is it taking money out of your pocket or breaking your bones?“Facts” like there’s more than one gender? “Facts” like gender is fluid?
Those aren’t facts. Those are pandering, because the entire field of academic psychology are leftist idea whores. Academic psychology has so pimped itself to political correctness that they’ve given up on “correctness” and just kept the “political”. There is no such thing as a soft science. Gender is a matter of biology, not opinion, even if Huffpo and Slate will otherwise.
I guess tradition to be honest. Raised that way and such. On one parent’s side uncles and aunts go serve mass and other things.Okay. Do you know why your family stays Catholic then?
And do you believe in God and Jesus? (As this is a written medium I can see how that sentence may come off as snarky. Not my intention to do so, but an honest question.)
And also, the following is a link to a Catholic Catechism which does contain Catholic teaching if you want to start reading it. It’s split into sections so it’s easy to enter at any point and you can also search certain topics.
scborromeo.org/ccc/ccc_toc.htm
What bothers me is a bunch of loons swinging enormous idea hammers, knocking out the load-bearing walls of civilization, like marriage, the family, and intrinsic morality, and then pretending they are on the right side of morality. I understand that some people REALLY want to be the other gender. That doesn’t make it so. I REALLY want to look more like Brad Pitt than Dom Deluise. That doesn’t make it so.Why does it bother you so much with gender being fluid? Are you directly being harmed by it? Is it taking money out of your pocket or breaking your bones?
Emphasis mine. The reason for this is because of people who say they are sinful or worse attack them outright. Empathy seems to be lack when someone is different then oneself.What bothers me is a bunch of loons swinging enormous idea hammers, knocking out the load-bearing walls of civilization, like marriage, the family, and intrinsic morality, and then pretending they are on the right side of morality. I understand that some people REALLY want to be the other gender. That doesn’t make it so. I REALLY want to look more like Brad Pitt than Dom Deluise. That doesn’t make it so.
A heroin addict going through withdrawal REALLY wants heroin. By your reasoning, it would be better to give it to him than to treat him for addiction.
Just because a person wants something doesn’t make it right. ** Gender dysphoria and homosexuality do cause ENORMOUS harm to a person. Not just their souls, but to their physical beings. The LGBT community have a higher rate of depression than most demographics. 30 percent of LGBT youth attempt suicide by age 15**. This is a condition that should be treated, not pandered to.
Nope. If that were true, the trend wouldn’t hold true in large LGBT communities, where people aren’t subjected to the type of treatment you are referring to.Emphasis mine. The reason for this is because of people who say they are sinful or worse attack them outright. Empathy seems to be lack when someone is different then oneself.
Okay a few things taken randomly. Where does it say that Jesus changed the old law? Jesus was of the Jewish faith and the only law I remember him breaking was working on the Sabbath. Jesus said that not one letter or tiddle of the old law was to be changed. One contradiction is how did Judas die? It is important in that did he seem sorry for what he did or didn’t he? Fatima can be explained, also the “revelations” have been found out some were told after events occurred. As for the flood, Jesus believed these events to have happened but now we see otherwise. Example is Moses, Exodus never happened. There is no evidence or record of it. Many Biblical scholars don’t believe it happened. Also considering the story of the Flood, why would anyone want to worship a being that nearly drives a planet to extinction save for 8 people whom had to repopulate the world. It takes a major stretch to see it as a symbol of baptism. I remember in school it was taught as a true event in order to explain rainbows.Well when it comes to the existence of Jesus, many historians agree that Jesus existed, even if they deny His divinity. Here’s one source on that. And considering how Christianity exploded, it’d be implausible for it to all begin because one person made things up in regards to Jesus’ existence. So even if you don’t yet accept Jesus was God incarnate, it’s no stretch at all to believe He existed.
npr.org/2012/04/01/149462376/did-jesus-exist-a-historian-makes-his-case
When it comes to exaggerated stories, the Old Testament does not need to be taken literally. The Church teaches that the old writers weren’t necessarily concerned with getting straight facts across, but meaning. So The Flood for example could be interpreted as a symbol of Baptism. (I’m no apologist so please don’t as for the explanation from me.)
This leads to the view that the Bible is true in all it intends to be true in. As for the contradictions, it’d depend on which ones you’re referring to. Some of the New Testament contradicts Old Testament teachings (like no pork) because Jesus fulfilled the old law and had the authority to make changes. (With pork for example there’s a passage in Matthew where He says “It is not what goes in your mouth that makes you unclean, but what comes out of it.”)
As for existence of God, there are accounts of modern day miracles too, such as Fatima. Others might have more links about those so you can read about them.
Show me your data and I will see. Yes the LGBTQIA+ community has depression and high suicide but wouldn’t you if you were marginalized and made to feel inferior?Nope. If that were true, the trend wouldn’t hold true in large LGBT communities, where people aren’t subjected to the type of treatment you are referring to.
The trend DOES hold for those communities. It’s NOT a result of outside pressure. It is an intrinsic symptom of the disorder. You claim to value facts and science. Look at the facts. Look at the science.
How are facts and the tenets of Christian morality at odds Kate?To be completely honest I don’t know a single Catholic teaching. I don’t remember being taught any in Catholic school. I doubt due to various news stories and other things that are fishy. Also I trust in facts and the secular side has more in facts than the Christian side.
LGBTQIA+ rights for one. Women’s rights for another.How are facts and the tenets of Christian morality at odds Kate?
Those things (rights to do what?) are claims. What facts are at odds with Christian morality?LGBTQIA+ rights for one. Women’s rights for another.
“A man shall not lieth with another man and both shall be put to death” Anti LGBT for one.Those things (rights to do what?) are claims. What facts are at odds with Christian morality?
Oh, so now Native American tribal spirituality is a basis for rational argument?Gender is fluid. Early native tribes had what was called Two Souls or Twin Spirit. It was far more accepted before Abrahamic religious spread throughout the world. It is the thought that being “compassionate” to someone by trying to convince them they are their assigned at birth gender that brings about harm. It sure as heck isn’t “trendy” to be LGBTQIA+ because of the bullying and stigma attached to it. Hopefully as generations pass the stigma will reduce to nothing.
You have it backwards. The Church is not anti-LGBT. Orientation is not a sin. Rather, the LGBT community is anti-Church. Morality is morality, whether you choose to follow it or not. The Church may take a strong stance against engaging in homosexual activities, but She does not hate or shun the man or woman who happen to find themselves gay.“A man shall not lieth with another man and both shall be put to death” Anti LGBT for one.
Treating women as property as another,
This is not responsive to the question put to you.“A man shall not lieth with another man and both shall be put to death” Anti LGBT for one.
Treating women as property as another,