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People are born to be suspicious of things that are different. It IS built into our DNA.
People are born curious. There's a difference between being curious vs. being suspicious.
Being curious simply means you want to learn (in which you're then taught by those around you), whereas suspicious means you've learned something but refuse to accept what you learned.
Curiosity is analyzing things unprejudiced while suspicion is looking for deception.
True this. I've been seeing a rise of Black teens hating cops thanks to the Black leaders preaching that hate to easily corrupted young minds. The media is partly to blame as well.
How about cops beating them while restrained having something to do with it?
The irony is always lost on creators and contributors to threads like this one as they rail against "Christians" for ruining the lives of gay people and alleging prejudice among "Christians." This one takes the cake with the thread title. In other places, I'd swear it was a headline from The Onion. Here? Par for the course.
There is no such thing as “homophobia.” The term was invented to disparage people who don’t accept homosexuality (for whatever reason).
Yes, Christianity (like many religions) has been against homosexuality for most of its history. There’s no disputing that. It’s not a “phobia,” it’s a doctrine: a doctrine consistent with the belief that all non-procreative sex is sinful.
Why would a religion consider non-procreative sinful? I don’t know, but believe that STDs had a lot to do with it. As we all know, sex can spread horrible diseases, and many religious people probably saw those diseases as God’s punishment for having sex. Therefore, sex was probably seen by many religious people as a tool for procreation, but otherwise sinful and deserving God’s wrath.
A homosexual scout leader is no more sexual than a straight one. Both simply instruct kids how to start fires and what tree is what.
Sorry, homosexual men commit a disproportionate percentage of child molestation. However, there is "trick" played with the numbers to distort this truth. When sex crimes are tabulated, rather than counting a sex crime in which a man has raped a boy as an incidence of homosexual rape/molestation, if the perpetrator says he is a heterosexual, it is not calculated as an incidence of homosexual molestation, thus the numbers are completely distorted.
Given the small percentage of the total population that is comprised of gay males, we would rarely see incidences of homosexual rape/molestation. In reality, we see many.
There is no such thing as “homophobia.” The term was invented to disparage people who don’t accept homosexuality (for whatever reason).
Yes, Christianity (like many religions) has been against homosexuality for most of its history. There’s no disputing that. It’s not a “phobia,” it’s a doctrine: a doctrine consistent with the belief that all non-procreative sex is sinful.
As we all know, sex can spread horrible diseases, and many religious people probably saw those diseases as God’s punishment for having sex. Therefore, sex was seen by many religious people as a necessary evil for procreation, but otherwise dangerous and deserving God’s wrath.
I assume you have a degree in Psychology to be making such a bold claim, yes?
There is no such thing as “homophobia.” The term was invented to disparage people who don’t accept homosexuality (for whatever reason).
Yes, Christianity (like many religions) has been against homosexuality for most of its history. There’s no disputing that. It’s not a “phobia,” it’s a doctrine: a doctrine consistent with the belief that all non-procreative sex is sinful.
As we all know, sex can spread horrible diseases, and many religious people probably saw those diseases as God’s punishment for having sex. Therefore, sex was seen by many religious people as a necessary evil for procreation, but otherwise dangerous and deserving God’s wrath.
I assume you have a degree in Psychology to be making such a bold claim, yes?
Here's yet another fallacious argument. Please explain why you need "a degree" in that field to be able to deconstruct this vacant term lobbed as a silencing weapon.
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