If Wyatt Coulee had numerous adulterous affairs with other men and moved in with one of his 'lovers', I'm thinking that makes him a homosexual.
Noted.
But my point was that perversion is no respecter of gender.
As with other secular humanists, your issue is with God and in this case what the proper role of government is.
Again, your mind-reading skills are lousy. Don't guess at my motives. Just ask me a direct question instead of "adding" to "the word."
My issue is, and continues to be, the passion and character of God as I recognize Him in Jesus.
I don't believe in a faith that requires its members to give their assent to a list of ancient, first-century theological interpretations like "Born of a virgin," "Son of God," etc.
I believe in an action-based faith, not a belief-based one. I believe in studying Jesus's preaching and mission and how it can be applied to a fallen world and anemic church.
You, like GFR7 and so many others, were hurt as a child, something I can't begin to comprehend. While I can't comprehend why an adult would do something like that to a child, I do understand that it terribly twists that child's morality as they grow into adulthood. Save your burger and beer money and seek legitimate psychiatric and spiritual therapy.
When people are still figuring out how their childhood treatment is responsible for their failed relationships, failed marriages, social retardation and a spotty job record, it is really inadvisable (cruel, even) to mock their journey while they are still working on themselves.
A spiritual therapy that is cognitive-based is probably the best way to go about getting help.
Humiliations, spankings and beatings, slaps in the face, betrayal, sexual exploitation, derision, neglect, etc. are all forms of mistreatment, because they injure the integrity and dignity of a child
(even if their consequences are not visible right away).
To be blunt, children raised in an obedience-based, authoritarian patriarchal family will suffer--and let others suffer--from these injuries.
The bully, the tyrant, the sarcastically cruel person are the way they are because of their childhoods.
A dynamic of violence can deform some victims into hangmen who take revenge even on whole nations and become willing executors to dictators as unutterably appalling as Hitler and other cruel leaders.
Beaten children (like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Saddam Hussein, etc.) very early on assimilate the violence they endured, which they may glorify and apply later as parents or world leaders, in believing that they deserved the punishment and were beaten out of love.
Largely we don't know that the only reason for the punishments they have ( or in retrospect, had) to endure is the fact that their parents themselves endured and learned violence without being able to question it. Later, the adults, once abused children, beat their own children and often feel grateful to their parents who mistreated them when they were small and defenseless.
This is why I think society's ignorance remains so immovable and parents continue to produce severe pain and destructivity - in all "good will", in every generation.
Most people tolerate this blindly because the origins of human violence in childhood have been and are still being ignored worldwide.
Almost all small children are smacked during the first three years of life when they begin to walk and to touch objects which may not be touched. This happens at exactly the time when the human brain builds up its structure and should thus learn kindness, truthfulness, and love but never, never cruelty and lies. Fortunately, there are many mistreated children who find "helping witnesses" and can feel loved by them.
Corporal punishment of children shows up as physical brain dysfunctions.
