Sick fucks are really obsessed with forcing little girls to go to the bathroom with grown men, aren't they?

Shame on you, GOG.

Not sure if serious, but if so, you and I are not on the same team.

I think he is talking about HERO aka bathroom ordinance

Great, another thread about religion filled with angry people. There's really nothing better to talk about on a game distributor's forum?

I always thought reddit was the place for these things, or was OP afraid of the response they'd get there?

Anyway, I think it's time to figure out what to list on the backlog club. I'm too happy to engage any further here.

He definitely seems prickly at times, but he's also well-spoken and fairly respectful from what little I've seen of him. Maybe less so toward the idea of religion, but us religious people aren't exactly fragile little flowers that wilt at the slightest criticism. Having your views challenged is always a healthy thing.

Well said.

Truths hurts.

Because it hurts, it is hate speech.

Truths should be silenced.
Since you are more open minded to discussion. Can I ask why there are so many branches in Christianity?
Like a portion of Christianity is vegetarian but others are not.
Or a portion of Christian worship Jesus and another Jesus mother?

How can you be sure you are following the correct teaching in Christianity?

What should be the correct perception of Christianity?

Because the book they're all based on is incredibly vague and full of metaphors and analogies, and it's remarkably easy to turn it into a gloried Rorschach test that supports just about anything you already believe. Add on top of that the all-too-human tendency to disagree on details and two thousand years of trying to read the same book in different ways and it was really an inevitability that there'd be a million different branches.

Is there even such a thing? Plenty of people have their reasons for believing that their flavor of belief is the most right, but I tend to subscribe to the idea that all branches are a little right and a lot wrong about a lot of things. Most agree on basic things like compassion and other broad strokes like that, which is something I can get behind, but I don't think anyone's ever come up with a flawless interpretation because of the corruption that typically follows anything too formal. Some churches are little more than popularity contests, and I've even seen a pastor finish a sermon, then beat his kid in the parking lot immediately afterward.

If you're a decent human being, then I'd say you're doing well enough regardless of which details you subscribe to. There are no guarantees when it comes to religion, so you can't really judge anyone's wrongness or rightness beyond that.

Whichever one is being nicest at the moment, I suppose.

Ah I see.

If there is a god, he cannot be define by human perception or want. Like the book of god that is made by humans?
Or rather god that humans defined is not required in being a decent human?

The supernatural happenings around us may be attributed to a certain force we conveniently called god but not necessary be the god humans defined and humanized?

I am talking about the fertility requirement for being counted as a woman. Which little girls, news at 11, don't meet.

Is that a question or a statement? I'm not really sure where you're going with this. Moreover, theorizing about the nature of deities is fun (I even have my own unique beliefs that mesh a little bit of quantum mechanics into the mix), but it doesn't really get anyone anywhere. Once you boil them down to their essence, most religions are more about the actions and accountability of normal people than the dealings of higher beings.

Well I saw your statement about the bible so I thought your belief is not rigidly in line with the bible, so I ask if your belief is something like what I describe. For you to be able to make the statement of a little right about some things and a lot wrong about a lot of things.

you're comparing a cis-female(biologically speaking and everything) to trans-females or pre-ops. how is that even fair?

Where am I making that comparison here?

By your reasoning only religious people can have critical opinions about religion.
Yet religious people can have critical opinions of all things not religious, such as science ?
What you are implying is incredibly hypocritical.

Are you serious ? Religious people have been forcing their psychosis unto others for millennia.
What do you think ISIS is doing ? what do you think the Creationist movement is doing ?

Rationality and scientific thinking is under attack today, as it has been ever since the very idea of gods was conceived.