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Yeesh, I couldn't have been more wrong with my earlier post.

Is anyone else baffled how anyone can say these two contradicting phrases and still take themselves seriously?

"My opinion is in a BIG MAJORITY anyways, and that's all that matters to me..."; and

"i think that because of my own reasons"

Also:

"i never said they shouldn't have have sex, just getting married and adopting kids because that's a tradition between a man and a woman"

The absurdity of this post aside, how can you even remotely consider adoption a tradition? It's hardly something to be considered as such. So long as a child is placed in a loving, nurturing home it matters not to me what home they're going to.

My parents are foster parents and from what they witness on a regular basis, your worries about same sex adoption, however unfounded they are, are insignificant considering what many of these children presently face.



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Bah, this is like the 17th homosexuality thread in a year.

Here's how the argument goes ALL THE TIME.

"Blah blah blah, religion is homophobic"
"Blah blah, for no good reason"
"Blabbity blab, Leviticus is a bad book"
"Blahblahblabbityblibblab, gays are sick and immoral"
"Bloobityblab, you're wrong!"

The homophobe then is argued against by half of VGChartz then the thread gets locked.



Kimi wa ne tashika ni ano toki watashi no soba ni ita

Itsudatte itsudatte itsudatte

Sugu yoko de waratteita

Nakushitemo torimodosu kimi wo

I will never leave you

pizzahut451 said:
Rath said:
pizzahut451 said:
Seece said:
pizzahut451 said:
 

it is absolutely insane to suggest that child can be raised properly by a gay copule and i think that entire world would agree with me on this one.

 

and why on earth should he report me??? if you cant handle a discussion without being a bitter, dont dont discuss anything.(not aimed at you or dunno)

I know I should take my own advice, but I'll reply to you civally.

 

I know 2 lots of gay parents, male and female. Both the children were boys, both have had a loving childhood, they were rarely bullied about it, and they turned out like a normal people.and i know a child that has been brought back to the orphanage because its parents were same sex...so?

I don't understand your need (other than being anti gay, don't denie itWTF is anti gay?) to put across how it's IMPOSSIBLE, for gay parents to be good parents because I've seen 2 examples of the opposite, and none proving you right. because the child needs male and female parent

Lets see some studies (and please, none by NARTH)? Also you should probably give the following link a browse.

http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/parenting-full.pdf  you gave a link to the website for gays and lesbains? not biased web site at all!!!!

The APA is the American Psychological Association. It's not 'for gays and lesbians' it's a major professional body.

"the entire world" are you kidding? that's a massive overstatement, I know that all of the girls I work with at work agree gay adoption is fine, and a handful of other (straight) people that agree with it. It's just your view on the matter and possibly the area you live in, where I can't say "the whole world agree's with gay adoption" I know there is nowhere near half of the people I know that disagree with it, and the vast majority of my friends are straight males, heck just look at VGChartz, it's full of very straight pro gay people and few anti gays.and lets look at the eastern side of the world...Russia(gay pride parades always end up with lot of protest, watch it on youtube),India,Middle East, East Europe,(same as russia) Africa, South America(very christian religious continent) and some other small parts of Asia...in fact almost entire planet(about 70% of world population) except some western nations and Australia doesnt support gay marrige and sure as hell doesnt support gay people adopting children.i am not saying the world hates gays, just that they are not excepted everywhere yet. at least not when it comes to adoptng children

You're just spreading hate, and that isn't tolerated here. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion within reason, you're not giving any reason why gay parents are bad, just that they are. You're anti gay and you're just spreading hate trying to get on people's nerves.im sorry, i tought i didnt have to put a proof, i tought that was obvious...but how about a fact that kid its gonna get bullied A LOT at school which will make the kid insecure, scared and ashamed, and probably wont have any friends.ESPECIALLY if the chiled lives in some eastern country. That was the reson on top of my head. sure, there are some children that would be fine with having 2 parents of the same sex, but most of them wouldnt. Do you know how many people KILLED THEMSELVES because the harassment they recived because of their sexuality?????????? of course, in this case, the consequnces wouldnt go that far, but it would be still pretty bad.

Lets invent a similar scenario. Kids of black parents get bullied at school, therefore blacks should not be allowed to adopt. If you can see the problem with a scenario like that, you should see the same problem with what you are proposing.  You know damn well that there are far more people who hate gays than the people who hate blacks. in schools at least. lets use Xbox Live as an example. Whats the most common insult there? Fag? EXACTLY!!!!!!!

You missed the point, all you are doing is increasing discrimination because discrimination already exists. The aim should be to fight discrimination.

I learnt to not let ignorant views like this rile me up a long time ago, I am interested in your response as to how gay/lesbian adoption shouldn't be allowed though. Only if it isn't old fashioned of course ...

 

 

 

 



bimmylee said:
radiantshadow92 said:

Before, i just said that i do not trust the letter to the word. No matter what, we know the bible was written by man. There is no way in hell, that the bible we read today is the same exact bible God wanted us to read back then. Even if he lies to us, what if we never realized it? then would it matter if he lied to us? just because we realize it, it does not make his love or forgiveness any less than what it was before. You sound like i am just a 10 year old looking for some reason for why my God does bad things. I am not, there is no emotion, i can accept that my God does not exist for your information. Its just that, i still believe, and will always believe, that even if he is not real, if the world were to follow his sons word, then we would turn out great. There is nothing absurd about wanting a heaven when you die, people need it.

I apologize if I come off condescending, I don't intend it. I'm just trying to understand what you are saying.

If God doesn't exist, then why should anyone care what the Bible says? Even if there's good stuff in it, it becomes just an ordinary book of rules if there is no divine authorship. If there's no God, we have no reason to believe there is forgiveness for anything, or the existence of a heaven.

And just how did you come to the conclusion that there is "no way in hell" that the Bible we read today is the same exact Bible God wanted us to read back then? I'm curious.

People need to know that there is a God above, the civilization we live in is not ready for to admit there is no God (that is just if there is no God). However, i still believe there is God because believing in him is worth doing.

I came up with that, because the bible has been translated over 50 times and there is just no way that the bible we read today is exact to one God wanted us to read. 



pizzahut451 said:
dunno001 said:

*sighs* I hadn't planned on coming back to reply to this thread, but your ignorance is really starting to piss me off. So I'll just go in paragraph order as to not need to use colors:

1. Was said child really brought back for the same reason? If this were the problem, why was the child even allowed to leave the orphanage? I think there was a different reason underneath, one you know, yet are deciding to obscure, as it goes counter to your point.i dont know the specific details. all i know it was brought back

2. Well, anti-gay is something that describes you quite well on this stance. It means that you do not think that gay people should have the same rights as everyone else. By saying that a gay couple can't adopt for that reason, it shows a hatred, a bigotry, toward them for no valid reasonoh, so i think gays shouldnt be allowed to adopt children and i am anit gay right away??? if you cant accept people's opinnions than dont go on forums. And you keep spewing the same crap about how a child needs a male AND a female parent. As things stand, right now, that is only true for biological bringing into existance. What if the father dies while the mother is pregnant, and is raised with only a mother?the child would still miss a father dont you think??? Or say the mother dies giving birth, to be raised by only a father. According to you, these are also just as big of problems.yes they are both big problmes but they are diffrent I guess, to put it in a way you might understand, the child is being raised with one "parent" and another adult in the household which just also happens to have the same equipment as the first "parent." If this is wrong, then what do you propose we do about all the children in single-parent homes, since that must be wrong too?

3. The protests in Russia are nothing, really- it's a step that many civilized countries go through in approaching acceptance. And everything else you're painting with a very broad brush, to again, try to hide inaccuracies that disprove your theoryi used the word ''protest'' because i didnt want to look like hater or something like that. things that happen on gay pride parades in russia are MUCH WORSE than protest. go llok it up on youtube.. Africa? Gay couples have plenty of rights in South Africa.and the rest of the Africa? yes the situation is a bit diffrent there. especially in north-easter africa South America? I think we have a few members here who can talk better about that than I, but there are quite a few areas where people won't bat an eye at you for being gay. ''a few areas'' being the key word here. And wha about Middle East??? Cant counter anything here, can you??  No, gays are not accepted everywhere, and as long as people like you remain, we never will be. Going back to Russia, those gay parades are an attempt to show that yes, we are normal people, not deserving such discrimination and hatred.please explain me how am i hating on any people here??? ITS MY FUCKING OPINNION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. Obvious? Too many things skew what a person sees as "obvious." To an atheist, it is "obvious" there is no god. Whereas to a Christian, it's "obvious" that Jesus died for our sins. But these contradict each other; how can they be "obvious"? From my view, what you say isn't obvious at all, it's, as has been stated by others, hate mongering. If it's so "obvious", you should be able to be able to give factual proof of why. Yet all you're giving us is the same spewed crap with no basis in reality. I knew children of gay parents when I was in school, and I had no problem with this. (Before you try to bring up my current situation, I did not know about myself at the time.so? what diffrence does that make? you were still gay from very beginning. gay people dont mind gay parents) And there are some schools where the word "gay"fag/(fixed that for you) is slung around like an insult, but if you really are, people aren't bothered by it, and in fact, some even stop using it as such.

Then you go into deaths. There are some gay teens who commit suicide from the stigmata in less-civilized areas of being gay.America is that country? But with the exception of a couple of asinine countries, being a child with gay parents means nothing. These children are not discriminated against, even in the areas that you cite. After all, if an area is that unaccepting, suffice it to say that the parents also know this, and may actually try to help shield their child from the hatred. Are they concerned the child might get bullied, like you say happens? They might choose to have only 1 parent go to school to deal with the kid. And this again, brings us back to your flawed assumption that a child needs a parent of each gender...

You know what,dunno001? I dont like the publicity im getting in this thread, so we're gonna have to agree to disagree, because im not argueing on this topic anymore.You think gays should be allowed to adopt, i think otherwise.the end

My opinnion is in a BIG MAJORITY anyways, and thats all that matters to me...

Continuing the paragraph bulletpoints, since it seems to work:

1. If you don't know the specific details, then don't make them up. This includes trying to pass it off as homosexuality as being the reason.

2a. If you think any group should not have completely equal rights to everyone else, then yes, you are anti that group. It doesn't matter what that group is. As for people's opinions, I can deal with them. What I will do, is dispute them, and determine why you think that. Of course, it seems as though you're not willing to dispute, rather, you're using what you think of as a majority and saying it must be right. And I think the forum members here can find quite a few cases of that being wrong.

2b/c. No, it's not really different. It's a case of 1 parent being there, versus 2 caring adults both acting the role of parent. And as for missing one's father (I find it interesting how you only single out the father, by the way.), I can give exhibit A of that not being true- myself. My father left the scene when I was 6, and all I remember about him was the empty promises. Can't say I miss it one bit.

3a/b. What I was trying to say is that a few cases do not an entire area make. If the NRA had their way, they'd have people believe that the USA is a land of gun-toting violent nutcases. Does it matter if I can't make an example of one area you mention? Nope, rather, I was pointing to the wide swaths you incorrectly paint on an entire area. Even if most of the area would be that way, it does not mean that you can assume everyone is.

3c. I actually was talking in general, not about you specifically. So apparently I can't take an opinion, but everything I say has to be about you?

4. I'll be damned, you paid attention to something else I said. But what I was saying is that gay parents don't make a difference. As for your "correction", you're trying to correct a school bus driver on things kids say. I've heard both used; it doesn't make "gay" wrong as a word that some still use as an insult. (I still wish it wouldn't be, but that's another topic.)

5. I never said entire countries, I said areas. There are areas in the USA (since America is a region anyway...) that I think are uncouth. But again, it comes down to painting with the right brush for the people. I know that not everyone in the USA thinks the same way; I acknowledge this. So I have to say some, and state also that it is not indicitive of everyone in that area.

6/7. Yeah, I think we are going to have to disagree. So do both of us a favor- stop trying to pass your thoughts off as fact. It is that angle from which I defend against, as evidenced by what you had to end with, rather than letting it be just about what you think. However... 

pizzahut451 said later to SciFiBoy:
I dont think they should be able to adopt children because i am dirty homophobic son of a bitch

I think I've found something we can both agree on.



-dunno001

-On a quest for the truly perfect game; I don't think it exists...

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radiantshadow92 said:
bimmylee said:
radiantshadow92 said:

Before, i just said that i do not trust the letter to the word. No matter what, we know the bible was written by man. There is no way in hell, that the bible we read today is the same exact bible God wanted us to read back then. Even if he lies to us, what if we never realized it? then would it matter if he lied to us? just because we realize it, it does not make his love or forgiveness any less than what it was before. You sound like i am just a 10 year old looking for some reason for why my God does bad things. I am not, there is no emotion, i can accept that my God does not exist for your information. Its just that, i still believe, and will always believe, that even if he is not real, if the world were to follow his sons word, then we would turn out great. There is nothing absurd about wanting a heaven when you die, people need it.

I apologize if I come off condescending, I don't intend it. I'm just trying to understand what you are saying.

If God doesn't exist, then why should anyone care what the Bible says? Even if there's good stuff in it, it becomes just an ordinary book of rules if there is no divine authorship. If there's no God, we have no reason to believe there is forgiveness for anything, or the existence of a heaven.

And just how did you come to the conclusion that there is "no way in hell" that the Bible we read today is the same exact Bible God wanted us to read back then? I'm curious.

People need to know that there is a God above, the civilization we live in is not ready for to admit there is no God (that is just if there is no God). However, i still believe there is God because believing in him is worth doing.

I came up with that, because the bible has been translated over 50 times and there is just no way that the bible we read today is exact to one God wanted us to read. 

If you truly believed that then you would be studying all religions.



PhoenixKing said:
radiantshadow92 said:
bimmylee said:
radiantshadow92 said:

Before, i just said that i do not trust the letter to the word. No matter what, we know the bible was written by man. There is no way in hell, that the bible we read today is the same exact bible God wanted us to read back then. Even if he lies to us, what if we never realized it? then would it matter if he lied to us? just because we realize it, it does not make his love or forgiveness any less than what it was before. You sound like i am just a 10 year old looking for some reason for why my God does bad things. I am not, there is no emotion, i can accept that my God does not exist for your information. Its just that, i still believe, and will always believe, that even if he is not real, if the world were to follow his sons word, then we would turn out great. There is nothing absurd about wanting a heaven when you die, people need it.

I apologize if I come off condescending, I don't intend it. I'm just trying to understand what you are saying.

If God doesn't exist, then why should anyone care what the Bible says? Even if there's good stuff in it, it becomes just an ordinary book of rules if there is no divine authorship. If there's no God, we have no reason to believe there is forgiveness for anything, or the existence of a heaven.

And just how did you come to the conclusion that there is "no way in hell" that the Bible we read today is the same exact Bible God wanted us to read back then? I'm curious.

People need to know that there is a God above, the civilization we live in is not ready for to admit there is no God (that is just if there is no God). However, i still believe there is God because believing in him is worth doing.

I came up with that, because the bible has been translated over 50 times and there is just no way that the bible we read today is exact to one God wanted us to read. 

If you truly believed that then you would be studying all religions.

I wish, but i am only 17. The closest i can get to studying all religions is with friends who have other religions, or a humanities course i am taking right now *that does not really touch on it -_-*

I do realize that there might be a better religion out there, but for now, i do not know of any that i accept more than Christianity *not catholicism*. 

When i am older, i will definitely take it up



SciFiBoy said:
pizzahut451 said:
SciFiBoy said:
pizzahut451 said:

because those things SUPPOSED TO BE FOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE ONLY.(IMO) Its like being a human and say''birds have the right to fly,so why should i be denied them purely because of my race?'' Because humans are not supposed to fly, thats the way God made it to be and it should stay like that (IMO).

 

 

that is an incredibly stupid argument, HUMANS CANNOT FLY, we can have sex and stuff with whomever we desire though, thats how we evolved, deal with it...

 

i never said they shouldnt have have sex, just getting married and adopting kids because thats a tradition betwwen a men and a women

thats like saying its a tradition that black people are slaves...

thats incredibly stupid example. Treating people as slaves because of their skin coloor is horrible and barbaric and im glad thats over. Slavery is illegal, marrige is not (for straights)



dunno001 said:
pizzahut451 said:
dunno001 said:

*sighs* I hadn't planned on coming back to reply to this thread, but your ignorance is really starting to piss me off. So I'll just go in paragraph order as to not need to use colors:

1. Was said child really brought back for the same reason? If this were the problem, why was the child even allowed to leave the orphanage? I think there was a different reason underneath, one you know, yet are deciding to obscure, as it goes counter to your point.i dont know the specific details. all i know it was brought back

2. Well, anti-gay is something that describes you quite well on this stance. It means that you do not think that gay people should have the same rights as everyone else. By saying that a gay couple can't adopt for that reason, it shows a hatred, a bigotry, toward them for no valid reasonoh, so i think gays shouldnt be allowed to adopt children and i am anit gay right away??? if you cant accept people's opinnions than dont go on forums. And you keep spewing the same crap about how a child needs a male AND a female parent. As things stand, right now, that is only true for biological bringing into existance. What if the father dies while the mother is pregnant, and is raised with only a mother?the child would still miss a father dont you think??? Or say the mother dies giving birth, to be raised by only a father. According to you, these are also just as big of problems.yes they are both big problmes but they are diffrent I guess, to put it in a way you might understand, the child is being raised with one "parent" and another adult in the household which just also happens to have the same equipment as the first "parent." If this is wrong, then what do you propose we do about all the children in single-parent homes, since that must be wrong too?

3. The protests in Russia are nothing, really- it's a step that many civilized countries go through in approaching acceptance. And everything else you're painting with a very broad brush, to again, try to hide inaccuracies that disprove your theoryi used the word ''protest'' because i didnt want to look like hater or something like that. things that happen on gay pride parades in russia are MUCH WORSE than protest. go llok it up on youtube.. Africa? Gay couples have plenty of rights in South Africa.and the rest of the Africa? yes the situation is a bit diffrent there. especially in north-easter africa South America? I think we have a few members here who can talk better about that than I, but there are quite a few areas where people won't bat an eye at you for being gay. ''a few areas'' being the key word here. And wha about Middle East??? Cant counter anything here, can you??  No, gays are not accepted everywhere, and as long as people like you remain, we never will be. Going back to Russia, those gay parades are an attempt to show that yes, we are normal people, not deserving such discrimination and hatred.please explain me how am i hating on any people here??? ITS MY FUCKING OPINNION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. Obvious? Too many things skew what a person sees as "obvious." To an atheist, it is "obvious" there is no god. Whereas to a Christian, it's "obvious" that Jesus died for our sins. But these contradict each other; how can they be "obvious"? From my view, what you say isn't obvious at all, it's, as has been stated by others, hate mongering. If it's so "obvious", you should be able to be able to give factual proof of why. Yet all you're giving us is the same spewed crap with no basis in reality. I knew children of gay parents when I was in school, and I had no problem with this. (Before you try to bring up my current situation, I did not know about myself at the time.so? what diffrence does that make? you were still gay from very beginning. gay people dont mind gay parents) And there are some schools where the word "gay"fag/(fixed that for you) is slung around like an insult, but if you really are, people aren't bothered by it, and in fact, some even stop using it as such.

Then you go into deaths. There are some gay teens who commit suicide from the stigmata in less-civilized areas of being gay.America is that country? But with the exception of a couple of asinine countries, being a child with gay parents means nothing. These children are not discriminated against, even in the areas that you cite. After all, if an area is that unaccepting, suffice it to say that the parents also know this, and may actually try to help shield their child from the hatred. Are they concerned the child might get bullied, like you say happens? They might choose to have only 1 parent go to school to deal with the kid. And this again, brings us back to your flawed assumption that a child needs a parent of each gender...

You know what,dunno001? I dont like the publicity im getting in this thread, so we're gonna have to agree to disagree, because im not argueing on this topic anymore.You think gays should be allowed to adopt, i think otherwise.the end

My opinnion is in a BIG MAJORITY anyways, and thats all that matters to me...

Continuing the paragraph bulletpoints, since it seems to work:

1. If you don't know the specific details, then don't make them up. This includes trying to pass it off as homosexuality as being the reason.

2a. If you think any group should not have completely equal rights to everyone else, then yes, you are anti that group. It doesn't matter what that group is. As for people's opinions, I can deal with them. What I will do, is dispute them, and determine why you think that. Of course, it seems as though you're not willing to dispute, rather, you're using what you think of as a majority and saying it must be right. And I think the forum members here can find quite a few cases of that being wrong.

2b/c. No, it's not really different. It's a case of 1 parent being there, versus 2 caring adults both acting the role of parent. And as for missing one's father (I find it interesting how you only single out the father, by the way.), I can give exhibit A of that not being true- myself. My father left the scene when I was 6, and all I remember about him was the empty promises. Can't say I miss it one bit.

3a/b. What I was trying to say is that a few cases do not an entire area make. If the NRA had their way, they'd have people believe that the USA is a land of gun-toting violent nutcases. Does it matter if I can't make an example of one area you mention? Nope, rather, I was pointing to the wide swaths you incorrectly paint on an entire area. Even if most of the area would be that way, it does not mean that you can assume everyone is.

3c. I actually was talking in general, not about you specifically. So apparently I can't take an opinion, but everything I say has to be about you?

4. I'll be damned, you paid attention to something else I said. But what I was saying is that gay parents don't make a difference. As for your "correction", you're trying to correct a school bus driver on things kids say. I've heard both used; it doesn't make "gay" wrong as a word that some still use as an insult. (I still wish it wouldn't be, but that's another topic.)

5. I never said entire countries, I said areas. There are areas in the USA (since America is a region anyway...) that I think are uncouth. But again, it comes down to painting with the right brush for the people. I know that not everyone in the USA thinks the same way; I acknowledge this. So I have to say some, and state also that it is not indicitive of everyone in that area.

6/7. Yeah, I think we are going to have to disagree. So do both of us a favor- stop trying to pass your thoughts off as fact. It is that angle from which I defend against, as evidenced by what you had to end with, rather than letting it be just about what you think. However... 

pizzahut451 said later to SciFiBoy:
I dont think they should be able to adopt children because i am dirty homophobic son of a bitch

I think I've found something we can both agree on.

Cool, if thats gonna make you shut your untolerant,agressive,angry bitter mouth than fine, we'll agree to disagree than



pizzahut451 said:
SciFiBoy said:
pizzahut451 said:
SciFiBoy said:
pizzahut451 said:

because those things SUPPOSED TO BE FOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE ONLY.(IMO) Its like being a human and say''birds have the right to fly,so why should i be denied them purely because of my race?'' Because humans are not supposed to fly, thats the way God made it to be and it should stay like that (IMO).

 

 

that is an incredibly stupid argument, HUMANS CANNOT FLY, we can have sex and stuff with whomever we desire though, thats how we evolved, deal with it...

 

i never said they shouldnt have have sex, just getting married and adopting kids because thats a tradition betwwen a men and a women

thats like saying its a tradition that black people are slaves...

thats incredibly stupid example. Treating people as slaves because of their skin coloor is horrible and barbaric and im glad thats over. Slavery is illegal, marrige is not (for straights)

both involve denying basic rights that most people have to one group of society purely because people dont like them.