Italian priest blames earthquakes on gay unions

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09 Nov 2016, 2:17 am

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This is freaking 2016, people! Time to leave medieval mentalities where they belong, in the past!

I want them to continue to spout their nonsense freely. The more ridiculous crap theists and religious people say and write, the more likely people are to abandon religion and theism.

Not all religious people think like that...

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09 Nov 2016, 3:08 am

Even if SSM is a "sin" is God supposed to operate that way ( send earthquakes as punishment for sin)?
This is what Christ said about it:

Matthew 5:45King James Version (KJV)
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
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09 Nov 2016, 3:21 am

naturalplastic wrote:

I wish Christ also said not to use anagrams without explaining them.

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09 Nov 2016, 8:46 am

^You mean abbreviations? SSM is Same Sex Marriage.

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09 Nov 2016, 12:19 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:

Why he doesn't blame it on the pedophile priests? :lol:

The secularists have a saying, called 'the rights of the child," which include sexual liberation.

Rather than being fringe, it is discussed formally, at the UN, and there are educational pamphlets.

I get that it's a riff. I laughed, personally, at inappropriate animations of Francis and Benedict, but that revolves around coercive authoritarianism.

Francis is washing the feet of refugees, riding in economy class, taking vows of poverty, and hosting interfaith accords at said UN.

Secular concepts of free will assume that there is no absolute, moral right wrong, so long as all sides are consenting.

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09 Nov 2016, 12:37 pm

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I'm not Catholic but don't see why gay people require the formal acknowledgment of innocent bystanders, when they are able to have independent venues. I understood that it has always had a place, in society, since times immemorial.

There's what's called sound doctrine, and there's Churchianity. Some looks and mannerisms are not traditions of men, irrespective of our beliefs. It's just not customary, and the provocateurs knew that.

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Despite the fact that your whole comment is tangential (if not irrelevant) to this thread...

What looks and mannerisms have to do with the topic, I've no idea.

Think about all the superstitions, which different people had, throughout the ages, and you will know how to poke each one's emotional buttons. You could be the best provocateur of all times.

You know, I've never read one verse, which talks about someone with red horns, a pitchfork, and pointy tail. Should you dress this way, and demand equal time, at the pulpit?

Aren't there places, where you can dress however you want?

I think that nominal, secular, progressives have a problem with free will. You are not so heroic, to pick a fight, when everyone can go their own way. They will go their own way, and remember you as instigators, if at all.

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09 Nov 2016, 5:45 pm

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^You mean abbreviations? SSM is Same Sex Marriage.

Thank you.

I couldnt figure out WHAT he was talking about.

He must be confusing "anagrams" with "acronyms", and then confusing "acronyms" with "abbreviations". "SSM" is an abbreviation."NASA" is an abbreviation that can actually be pronounced as a word making NASA both an abbreviation and an "acronym". An anagram is a word created by rearranging the letters in another word (like "dog" is an anagram of "god", and vice versa).

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09 Nov 2016, 5:50 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:

Why he doesn't blame it on the pedophile priests? :lol: