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Started by Martinus, June 26, 2015, 12:22:10 AM

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alfred russel

#60
June 26, 2015, 10:19:01 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 26, 2015, 08:00:07 AM
Nobody's mentioned his Russian ness?

Or his lawyerness.
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Norgy

#61
June 27, 2015, 04:57:34 AM
Quote from: garbon on June 26, 2015, 05:02:31 PM
Quote from: Norgy on June 26, 2015, 04:39:32 PM
I'd just like to add this; having a conscientious and theologically backed stance against gay marriage does not necessarily make you a bad person.

Perhaps, but then it is awfully convenient the bits of one's theology that one chooses to back.

Agreed. The seafood gets off scot free.  :glare:

The Brain

#62
June 27, 2015, 05:24:58 AM
Quote from: Norgy on June 26, 2015, 04:39:32 PM
I'd just like to add this; having a conscientious and theologically backed stance against gay marriage does not necessarily make you a bad person.

What difference does theologically backed make? A person's opinions are his own. He may get his opinions from old books, cereal boxes, or whatever, but they are still his own.
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Habbaku

#63
June 27, 2015, 02:30:52 PM
Why would anyone friend Martinus?  It's like friending Jaron.
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Norgy

#64
June 27, 2015, 05:08:45 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 27, 2015, 05:24:58 AM
Quote from: Norgy on June 26, 2015, 04:39:32 PM
I'd just like to add this; having a conscientious and theologically backed stance against gay marriage does not necessarily make you a bad person.

What difference does theologically backed make? A person's opinions are his own. He may get his opinions from old books, cereal boxes, or whatever, but they are still his own.

In my book, no difference. But atheism apparently is difficult in the US. Especially the denying there is a god part.

garbon

#65
June 27, 2015, 05:17:30 PM
Quote from: Norgy on June 27, 2015, 05:08:45 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 27, 2015, 05:24:58 AM
Quote from: Norgy on June 26, 2015, 04:39:32 PM
I'd just like to add this; having a conscientious and theologically backed stance against gay marriage does not necessarily make you a bad person.

What difference does theologically backed make? A person's opinions are his own. He may get his opinions from old books, cereal boxes, or whatever, but they are still his own.

In my book, no difference. But atheism apparently is difficult in the US. Especially the denying there is a god part.


I'm not quite sure why I'd deny something like that.
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Razgovory

#66
June 27, 2015, 05:20:06 PM
We let people chose their own religion and totalitarian ideologies that replaced religion in Europe never caught on in America.
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Ideologue

#67
June 27, 2015, 05:32:19 PM
I know.  It's a real bummer.
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Jaron

#68
June 27, 2015, 08:55:57 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on June 27, 2015, 02:30:52 PM
Why would anyone friend Martinus?  It's like friending Jaron.

I'll friend you. :)
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Razgovory

#70
June 28, 2015, 02:10:28 AM
 :lol:
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Syt

#71
June 28, 2015, 03:11:09 AM
 :lol:
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Norgy

#72
June 28, 2015, 12:02:48 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on June 27, 2015, 05:20:06 PM
We let people chose their own religion and totalitarian ideologies that replaced religion in Europe never caught on in America.

Instead tards have guns. Good luck with that.

Valmy

#73
July 01, 2015, 02:52:17 PM
I look forward to the great Birmingham marriage boycott.
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The Brain

#74
July 01, 2015, 02:53:24 PM
Quote from: Martinus on July 01, 2015, 02:48:29 PM
So, according to AmScip & Friends, homophobic clerks resigning because they refuse to give marriage licenses to gay couples are example of civil disobedience. Just like Rosa Parks.

Wow.

That's insane. Didn't Rosa Parks break some rule or somefink? How is quitting your job civil disobedience?
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