Any Dudes Wanna Get Married?

[quote]Cortes wrote:

[quote]Sloth wrote:

[quote]kamui wrote:
A Religion is not only a set of interpretations of the scriptures.
It provides a set of rules to interpret said scriptures (hermeneutics)
AND, last but not least, a set of rules to establish the truth when interpretative conflicts arose.

In the Christian religion, interpretative conflicts are meant to be solved by Synods and Councils.

And the vast majority of these conflicts have been resolved in the first centuries of Chrstianity, once for all, by the Fathers of the Church.

so yes, there is simply no room for divergent interpretation on these solved topics, except by ignorance or dishonesty.

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If we could draft people into the Church against their will, you’d be the first in line at RCIA bootcamp. Pesky laws =([/quote]

Haha! I was just about to write that kamui is most Catholic atheist I have ever known. Kamui you make a better Catholic than many Catholics I know!
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I always thought he was a deist(please correct me if I am wrong), though his moral/ethical arguments are interesting.

[quote]Cortes wrote:

[quote]Sloth wrote:

[quote]kamui wrote:
A Religion is not only a set of interpretations of the scriptures.
It provides a set of rules to interpret said scriptures (hermeneutics)
AND, last but not least, a set of rules to establish the truth when interpretative conflicts arose.

In the Christian religion, interpretative conflicts are meant to be solved by Synods and Councils.

And the vast majority of these conflicts have been resolved in the first centuries of Chrstianity, once for all, by the Fathers of the Church.

so yes, there is simply no room for divergent interpretation on these solved topics, except by ignorance or dishonesty.

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If we could draft people into the Church against their will, you’d be the first in line at RCIA bootcamp. Pesky laws =([/quote]

Haha! I was just about to write that kamui is most Catholic atheist I have ever known. Kamui you make a better Catholic than many Catholics I know!
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Hey! I was going for that title. Except for the gay thing, but then again kamui isn’t exactly orthodox in his sexual practices either :wink:

For Zeb:

[quote]doogie wrote:
For Zeb:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/18/nih-backed-study-examined-effects-penis-size-in-gay-community/[/quote]

Money well spent.

[quote]The study reported, among its findings, that gay men with “below average penises” were more likely to assume a “bottom” sexual position, while those with “above average penises” were more likely to assume a “top” sexual position. Those with average penises identified themselves as “versatile” in the bedroom.
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WTF?

I always figured they took turns.

[quote]kamui wrote:
Not sure the RCIA bootcamp would work.
i lived two years in a presbytery when i was 18 (my godfathe is a catholic priest) and i spent dozens of hours in a dominican library. It was not enough.

that being said, i’m definitely not a “postmodern mind” and, more often than not, i feel closer to catholics than to my fellow unbelievers.
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As I always say, what is wrong with the Middle Ages.

[quote]forlife wrote:

[quote]Cortes wrote:

[quote]Sloth wrote:

[quote]kamui wrote:
A Religion is not only a set of interpretations of the scriptures.
It provides a set of rules to interpret said scriptures (hermeneutics)
AND, last but not least, a set of rules to establish the truth when interpretative conflicts arose.

In the Christian religion, interpretative conflicts are meant to be solved by Synods and Councils.

And the vast majority of these conflicts have been resolved in the first centuries of Chrstianity, once for all, by the Fathers of the Church.

so yes, there is simply no room for divergent interpretation on these solved topics, except by ignorance or dishonesty.

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If we could draft people into the Church against their will, you’d be the first in line at RCIA bootcamp. Pesky laws =([/quote]

Haha! I was just about to write that kamui is most Catholic atheist I have ever known. Kamui you make a better Catholic than many Catholics I know!
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Hey! I was going for that title. Except for the gay thing, but then again kamui isn’t exactly orthodox in his sexual practices either :wink:
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“Gay, Catholic, and Doing Fine.” By Steve Gershom: http://www.stevegershom.com/

[quote]Brother Chris wrote:

[quote]kamui wrote:
Not sure the RCIA bootcamp would work.
i lived two years in a presbytery when i was 18 (my godfathe is a catholic priest) and i spent dozens of hours in a dominican library. It was not enough.

that being said, i’m definitely not a “postmodern mind” and, more often than not, i feel closer to catholics than to my fellow unbelievers.
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As I always say, what is wrong with the Middle Ages.[/quote]

Except for the bubonic plague, Inquisition, and lack of proper gym equipment, the Middle Ages rocked.

[quote]forlife wrote:

[quote]Brother Chris wrote:

[quote]kamui wrote:
Not sure the RCIA bootcamp would work.
i lived two years in a presbytery when i was 18 (my godfathe is a catholic priest) and i spent dozens of hours in a dominican library. It was not enough.

that being said, i’m definitely not a “postmodern mind” and, more often than not, i feel closer to catholics than to my fellow unbelievers.
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As I always say, what is wrong with the Middle Ages.[/quote]

Except for the bubonic plague, Inquisition, and lack of proper gym equipment, the Middle Ages rocked.[/quote]

You forgot bad teeth.

cringe

Apropos to our discussion, looks like even the religious right is
finally realizing that telling gays to change their orientation can be
damaging, and should be avoided:

[quote]"We have spoken carelessly and unknowledgeably in the past to
just say, ‘Just change. Just decide right now your pattern of
attraction is not homosexual but heterosexual,’ " Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary President Al Mohler said. “We have to know
better.”

“We understand that sexual attraction and a profile of someone’s
sexuality is a complex of factors, some of which are certainly not
chosen,” he continued. “It’s not just a matter of choice. It’s not
something that’s turned on or turned off.”[/quote]

I’ve seen this same evolution in my own former religion. As a young
man, I was told to get married despite being gay, and everything would
work out. Church leaders have since realized this doesn’t work, that
people cannot actually change their orientation. They are now telling
people to be celibate.

Still unfortunate that a gay believer would be condemned to a life of
loneliness, but at least the snake oil solutions of reparative therapy
are finally getting the axe.

The fact is that reparative therapy has a success rate of about 33%. There are former homosexuals who are now married and quite happy with their heterosexuality. This is a fact and I’ve posted the data many, many times.

[quote]doogie wrote:
For Zeb:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/18/nih-backed-study-examined-effects-penis-size-in-gay-community/[/quote]

Hey thanks for the laugh doogie. How could any of us continue to function without knowing what forlife already knows:

Now can’t we all agree that government needs to get much larger so we can do more of this stuff?

OBAMA IN 2012!

[quote]ZEB wrote:
The fact is that reparative therapy has a success rate of about 33%. There are former homosexuals who are now married and quite happy with their heterosexuality. This is a fact and I’ve posted the data many, many times. [/quote]

Personally, if I was married I would no like my spouse to be sucking off the pool boy, but then again, how would that be different from most other marriages?

So, yow certainly have a point.

[quote]Brother Chris wrote:

[quote]Grneyes wrote:

[quote]ZEB wrote:
Someone should point out to our resident atheist homosexual that it doesn’t matter which doctrine is true. All those who accept Christ get into Heaven.

And that leaves him out.

OUCH![/quote]

Big deal. If you don’t believe in Heaven, there’s no point in being butt hurt about not getting into it when you die.
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Except for the eternal torment and hatred one experiences after they die if they do not get into Heaven or Purgatory.[/quote]

It’s called reincarnation. You can’t go to Hell if you don’t believe in it. YOU think I’m going to hell. I think I will be reincarnated.

[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Just for you Mike. Once again:

[quote]Otep wrote:

[quote]Tiribulus wrote:

[quote]smh23 wrote:<<< If we heterosexuals are so virtuous, >>>[/quote]You’re smarter than this. That is not what I said. Heterosexual hedonism has been and IS, far and away more destructive than homosexuality if for no other reason than sheer numbers. Gay marriage is simply a natural step in devaluing THE single component that most accounted for our rise and is now the direct cause of our fall. Gays can do what they want. I will not be kicking their doors down, but DO NOT attempt to sell that to me as marriage or a family. Reread the whole post please. All of it is required to get the message.
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Maybe I’m missing something. You’re suggesting that ‘THE single component that most accounted for our rise’ is heterosexual marriage?

I realize it was a page ago. Seemed pretty important to understanding your argument about America’s downhill course.[/quote]No, I’M not saying, the founders told us that religious morality was essential for their experimental government to work. Denying that the religious morality they were talking about was Christianity doesn’t pass the chuckle test. THE major social component of that morality was, is, the new testament model of monogamous marriage, family and sex. The God of the bible was recognized there and everywhere else. It’s simply false to say otherwise. Yes, that was the bedrock for absolutely everything else. While God was acknowledged and that family model was considered normative this country ascended on every level like no other in human history.

When that was abandoned in the 60’s the decline began immediately and is now in a full flaming tailspin.

I’m not typing this all over again (for the 100th time), but here from a few pages ago when somebody told me this would no appreciable effect on our future har dee har har.:

[quote]Tiribulus said on the last page: Gay marriage is the latest component in a national suicide that began in earnest in the 1960’s. It HAS AND IS having an appreciable effect. A devastating suicidal one. This country was built on the social/political/economic foundation of very limited public government through privately and voluntarily practiced Judeo-Christian morality.

Oh yes it was. Our founders clearly told us that. “The reason we can give you so few rules boys n girls is because you’re already so well behaved on the whole” to paraphrase in a nutshell. Even the total hypocritical pagans like Jefferson and Franklin clearly understood this.

The soil out of which new citizens grow is their family or lack thereof. Every single last issue killing this country is a direct consequence of that. The founders assumed that we would continue in the new testament model of one man and one woman for life wherein boundaries that engender self sacrifice, self control, decency, modesty and HONESTY in the act of upholding one’s vows because one’s word actually meant something. All of this was predicated upon the assumption that God designed it that way. That was the soil for new citizens they absolutely counted on for their experiment in self government to succeed and it did.

We skyrocketed into the most prosperous, powerful, feared and respected nation in all of human history over the course of a few generations BECAUSE despite our human foibles we were the most moral because we were the most Christian. Look at the soil our citizens are growing in now. Children of the hippies. Hedonistic, self obsessed, narcissistic, materialistic whores whose mission in life is bringing themselves the most pleasure in the most rapid fashion possible.

ALL the economic woes we are now in ARE, make no mistake, the consequence of the sexually moral degeneration of this nation’s citizenry resulting in the destruction of the foundational social unit upon which she was built and out of which her members are spawned. Even Stalin understood this. He told the world that the United Sates would never be defeated as long as she maintained her spirituality and hence MORality.

Wanna know what’s rotting this nation dead from the inside out like an oozing flesh eating virus? Go look in your Sex and the Male Animal forum. We will destroy OURSELVES to the snickering glee of our many enemies without a shot being fired, all in the name of getting laid. Gay marriage is just the latest chapter. [/quote][/quote]

[quote]Tiribulus wrote:

Wanna know what’s rotting this nation dead from the inside out like an oozing flesh eating virus? Go look in your Sex and the Male Animal forum. We will destroy OURSELVES to the snickering glee of our many enemies without a shot being fired, all in the name of getting laid. Gay marriage is just the latest chapter.
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You might like Dalrocks site, especially his take on “churchianity”.

You are right though, marriage is dead, dead, dead and fighting gay marriage is just a rearguard action.

Reading all those heresies how men need to jump through hoops to get some action with their own wife is pretty interesting considering that the Bible is actually very clear on this.

I would not mind so much if the Church was seen as a stubborn relique from days past, at least we would have something to fall back on when SHTF, but to see it coopted by a gynolatric, limp wristed pedestalization of women hurts because of all the social capital and hard won wisdom that is squandered.

Apparently Tribulus hasn’t been able to get the gays off his mind for two years and counting now…great bump!

[quote]VTBalla34 wrote:
Apparently Tribulus hasn’t been able to get the gays off his mind for two years and counting now…great bump![/quote]

If you let black children and white children go to school together it will be the end of the world.

If you let black people marry white people it will be the end of the world.

If you let two girls marry it will be the end of the world.

If you let two guys marry everyone will be marrying stop signs.

It’s nice to leave in a time where you can laugh your fucking ass off at these religious lunatics who sound just like the lunatics from our past.

Not a good analogy they say…bullshit it’s a perfect analogy. And who is bumping this stuff up after all this time? Is it a rainbow wearing happy skippy dude? Nah, it’s the group who is truly obsessed with other people’s dicks…Christians!

As a hetero male about to get married to a gorgeous female you guys are making me feel weird. Can you please stop obsessing with what adults do in the bedroom? Do I need to setup a webcam so you guys can approve of our positions?

[quote]H factor wrote:
Do I need to setup a webcam so you guys can approve of our positions? [/quote]

Well, if you want to go down that route, two statements of your net worth, one before and one after divorce would probably entertain me more.