You are more than your feelings · 3:22pm Dec 15th, 2018
I find it sad how people label themselves: "I am gay, I am lesbian, bi, etc." as if that is the only thing that they are. But you are none of those things, you are a person. You are person who is meant for Love, for Truth, for true happiness, because you are meant for God. Not all feelings are necessarily good; if your feelings contradict what you know to be Truth, then you should know that you cannot follow them. Having same sex attractions does not make you evil, as no temptation is a sin. It is acting on them that is evil, and will end in unhappiness. Why do some people have such attractions and feelings? Well we live in a fallen world. What are we to do with such feelings? Offer them up to God. That is why Our Blessed Lord said "Take up your Cross and follow Me." If we cannot recognize as sin what God calls sin, then we are truly blind. But God sent his Son into the world to heal the blind. Remember dear ones, only God can satisfy you, because you came from Him, and you are meant for Him.
Its nonsense, the worst of tribalism made manifest. Ones orientation should be the least important aspect of their person if relevant at all, with a couple of noted exceptions of course.
I think though Roger's put matters best
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Beautiful sentiment, but only half of the equation. God likes us as we are, but loves us too much to leave us that way.
True love desires the best for the other; ultimately, that is God in Heaven.
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True, true. Personally though I've always been the advocate of tough love. I'm not saying we should tear someone down or rip the apart, but there are some opinions, behaviors, and ideologies we should have loathing for.
Religions I'm in general fine with, but perhaps my opinion might be best stated here. Its decidedly more complicated, but in essence...
Any position that advocates or supports the unlicensed and more importantly unwarranted harm of another for any reason save the prevention of harming others and even their property at times can take a running leap off a chopper onto the tip of the Empire state building. Any position that advocates the unlawful and immoral seizure of anothers property, shred that stuff immediately, we get enough of that from that pyramid scheme called the power politic.
There is one behavior I utterly loath: Pedophilia... no. Full stop, no. Isolation, chemical castration, and if needed, incarceration. And I don't know why this one is even up for discussion
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) except that video. It has some true points to it (there is a bit of truth in every religion) But ultimately there is only One God, One Faith, One Truth. I want everyone to have the Fullness of Truth which is in Christ alone. No one can be forced though, they need to come to it on there own. I'm just here to help.
I totally agree with all of that (especially the pedophile part, I'd hang em.
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Fair enough, and glad to have you here
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Glad you're here too
It's other people that have given us these labels because we appear different to them. We've just been taught to adopt these labels made by society for years, placing us in this "group" of people. We're all human, though, and people do forget that. It's difficult to explain perhaps to someone who wants nothing to do with homosexuality why this is, though. I've been gay for nearly two years now, simply because girls just don't want anything to do with me, which has led me to think of this label. People are attracted to someone, wherever it's someone of the same or opposite sex, for different reasons. I'm, for example, attracted to the person within, not on the outside. My previous heterosexual relationships involved my girlfriends both commiting adultery behind my back. I felt I was doing something wrong, so I began to ask myself; "Am I gay?"
I find it frustrating and when people constantly get at my neck for being a homosexual, because they think I'm sexually attracted to lots of different men. That is not simply true.
Dying in sexual sin is still a sin, no matter who you're doing it with. Wherever it's sex between a man and woman, man and man or woman and woman, God said that we ALL shouldn't die in sexual sin. And some people are fine with it and others are not afterwards. Not every relationship will end with unhappiness. By the time we become grey, we will no longer be 'sexy'. People are attracted in lots of different ways, and there are gay Christians like myself who still want to serve God and not be excluded from others.
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... Hey padre, just for you, I will be classy and not respond to this. You're welcome
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Appreciated
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But I will be thinking it in a state of mixed bewilderment and faint revulsion, like I do in much of my encountesr with the clueless clutch of clowns that is the abject shinola expose that is human existence.
And before anyone comes and complains, its a joke people.
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Just curious, what made you want to respond?
What?
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Didn't want to risk needlessly offending anyone
But now I see the context that it was in humor.
I was busy and not able to read everything yesterday
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It's okay.
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It was as 5219409 said. Didn't want to offend.
That said though, I will say that far too many embrace such labels, and moreover make the whole of that aspect of their person the entirety of their self imposed identity, and from there, their self martyrdom which extends, quite literally, into all aspects of their time on this side of the divide. To wit
As I said ones sexual orientation is easily the least important aspect of ones person.
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I agree with that wholeheartedly, as that's what relationships should be. I love the personality of people and that's what I fall in love with. It would be a lie if I said that I didn't feel any sexual thoughts about men, and perhaps even women, however, I would want to be with the right person at the end of the day.
I need this to take a proper stand against the leftist agenda.
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Happy to be of service.