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Blade, I have to correct you on another glaring point that shows how little you understand what really happened with SCOTUS's marriage decision - and what didn't happen.
You keep on saying that SCOTUS made a new law. They ABSOLUTELY and INCONTROVERTIBLY did not. What they did was to tell STATES that made new laws (that denied specific civil rights to gays) that they WERE NOT ALLOWED to make that kind of law. In other words, SCOTUS did not make a law. They stopped someone else from making a BAD law. There is a huge difference. If you don't understand that, then it is no small wonder that you don't seem to understand my Will Rogers analogies and my references to the gestational origins of homosexuality. You don't understand that the actions of the Religious Right regarding marriage and homosexuality were in fact a huge violation of civil rights.
I have to ask if you are really as dense as you seem to be, or whether you are just an exceptionally tenacious troller. Your repeated inability to see the implications of logic at work continue to amaze me. But this isn't my first forum on atheism.
Are you afraid that if you agree to any of our points of logic that somehow you will lose your faith and condemn yourself? If you really believed that, the problem is in you, not in us. Your own weakness of faith strikes you with terror because you still feel that disembodied presence looking over your shoulder for your transgressions. You cannot even face the idea that your logic would overwhelm your faith. Yet the Pope accepts evolution and I doubt that you could make disparaging comments about the weakness of his faith. I submit for your consideration that YOU doubt your own God's power - because otherwise you would realize that if He is as powerful as you think He is, all of evolution and the Big Bang and abiogenesis would be within His power to make happen as the science of the day tells us it did. YOU are one who diminishes God's power in your own mind, one who limits God's abilities. YOU have the weakness but unlike us, you can't bring yourself to face that situation.
We who are atheists can face a life without God. You, on the other hand, have limited yourself terribly by imagining a God who is limited, but you can't do without that limited God. Forgive me if I pity your weakness.
You keep on saying that SCOTUS made a new law. They ABSOLUTELY and INCONTROVERTIBLY did not. What they did was to tell STATES that made new laws (that denied specific civil rights to gays) that they WERE NOT ALLOWED to make that kind of law. In other words, SCOTUS did not make a law. They stopped someone else from making a BAD law. There is a huge difference. If you don't understand that, then it is no small wonder that you don't seem to understand my Will Rogers analogies and my references to the gestational origins of homosexuality. You don't understand that the actions of the Religious Right regarding marriage and homosexuality were in fact a huge violation of civil rights.
I have to ask if you are really as dense as you seem to be, or whether you are just an exceptionally tenacious troller. Your repeated inability to see the implications of logic at work continue to amaze me. But this isn't my first forum on atheism.
Are you afraid that if you agree to any of our points of logic that somehow you will lose your faith and condemn yourself? If you really believed that, the problem is in you, not in us. Your own weakness of faith strikes you with terror because you still feel that disembodied presence looking over your shoulder for your transgressions. You cannot even face the idea that your logic would overwhelm your faith. Yet the Pope accepts evolution and I doubt that you could make disparaging comments about the weakness of his faith. I submit for your consideration that YOU doubt your own God's power - because otherwise you would realize that if He is as powerful as you think He is, all of evolution and the Big Bang and abiogenesis would be within His power to make happen as the science of the day tells us it did. YOU are one who diminishes God's power in your own mind, one who limits God's abilities. YOU have the weakness but unlike us, you can't bring yourself to face that situation.
We who are atheists can face a life without God. You, on the other hand, have limited yourself terribly by imagining a God who is limited, but you can't do without that limited God. Forgive me if I pity your weakness.
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