Maybe he was right. But he was the pot caling the kettle black because Socialism is even more an opiate for the masses. It provides simple answers to complex questions and it promises a paradise o earth if only you obey the masters.Karl Marx called religion the opiate of the masses. He’s probably right. Put a shirt on a man’s back, a roof over his head and money in his pocket, and he finds he no longer needs God.
How do you define “religion”?Socialism is not only a religion with God left out, but it is also with the theology, logic, structure and consistency left out. It dumbs down to the lowest common denominator.
I think you are 100% correct.I think people leave because they just don’t believe the narrative. Given what they know of science, history and their own life experience, the stories don’t add up.
If the stories don’t add up, they figure the theology based on the stories is bogus as well.
Me too. 100%I think you are 100% correct.
But what if they really are disordered tendencies, and the push to reclassify them was based not on developments in science and psychology, but rather on social pressures?I have no wish to stigmatize homosexual people and suggest they are suffering from disorders or mental illnesses simply for being homosexual.
What did you mean by WTF?. “French” is very commonly used in that three letter acronym). In fact, the presumption you made that the letter in the acronym must be a vulgar word is a troubling projection of vulgarity on your part.
The crowd was like WTF this dude is nuts and all started to leave.
See, now that’s the question you should have asked before the dishonest speech of saying I said a word I didn’t say.What did you mean by WTF?
Yes, LGBT people campaigned against a diagnosis that said that they were mentally ill because they knew it wasn’t true. Most of the old psychiatric literature on homosexuality was based on Freudian psychology which has been discredited.Homosexuality and transgender tendencies weren’t discovered recently. Before 1973, Homosexuality was listed as a disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Being Transgender was listed as a disorder until 2013. The change in diagnosis for the latter was actively campaigned for:
Perhaps those who think that the APA was wrong to change the DSM want to go back to treatments for homosexuality like one that was presented at the 1973 meeting of the American Psychiatric Association at a program entitled “Issues on Sexuality,” by a doctor named Nathaniel McConaghy who read a paper about his research to change gay men’s sexual orientation:Schizophrenia isn’t analagous to homosexuality. Schizophrenia requires mental healthcare and psychiatric drug treatment. Homosexuality can’t be treated. I know a thing or two about homosexuality because I myself am gay. But I also live according to Church teaching. What the DSM has to say on homosexuality is utterly irrelevant. Whether it’s listed as a mental illness or not you are commanded to treat gay people with respect and without discrimination or malice. You’re attempting to connect two different things that don’t necessarily follow one another
With apomorphine therapy, the patient was given injections of apomorphine after which he viewed slides of naked males while experiencing the resultant nausea. With aversion-relief, the patient received painful electric shocks after reading aloud phrases describing aspects of homosexual behavior. Following a series of shocks, he read aloud a phrase describing an aspect of heterosexual behavior, and this time not followed by a shock…
What does that mean?The crowd was like WTF this dude is nuts
Does it mean what everyone knows it to mean (except for you) or does it mean something else?See, now that’s the question you should have asked before the dishonest speech of saying I said a word I didn’t say.
You lied. You said someone used actual f word when they didn’t. If they did, they’d be banned or at minimum the post would be removed. Now your pride is kicking in and refuses to concede your mistake. Your post is example of why people are leaving the faith - rank hypocrisy - someone lying as they pretend to stand for “right speech”Right speech also includes the abstaining from abusive, vulgar, and obscene speech, including for example, the f word. Of course, what we see today, as exemplified in the quote above,
Schizophrenia isn’t analagous to homosexuality. Schizophrenia requires mental healthcare and psychiatric drug treatment.I encourage you to look up the vast repository of “ex-gay” testimonies that show this to be untrue.Homosexuality can’t be treated. I know a thing or two about homosexuality because I myself am gay.
That’s awesome, it really is. I know that must be hard.But I also live according to Church teaching.
I agree with you, at least about having to treat everyone with respect. The thing is, I do believe it is a mental illness, or at least a disordered inclination. I also believe that it is not an intrinsic state, and that the most respectful, loving thing I can do is treat it for what it is.What the DSM has to say on homosexuality is utterly irrelevant. Whether it’s listed as a mental illness or not you are commanded to treat gay people with respect and without discrimination or malice.
We believe in counseling and psychological assistance, not torture. Aversion therapy has been denounced by pretty much everyone, regardless of which side of the debate you are on.With apomorphine therapy, the patient was given injections of apomorphine after which he viewed slides of naked males while experiencing the resultant nausea. With aversion-relief, the patient received painful electric shocks after reading aloud phrases describing aspects of homosexual behavior. Following a series of shocks, he read aloud a phrase describing an aspect of heterosexual behavior, and this time not followed by a shock…