Comments on: Over the Rainbow Revisited Chapter III: The Great Divide

By: LurkingReader

LurkingReader — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:30:20 +0000

“At the end of it all, people with christian brainwashed thinking believe they should continue to deny people equal rights because 2 or three lines in an ancient text might be interpreted as condemning it. Were it not for the Catholic Church making this one of their mantras 1700 years ago this would never have been an issue.”

Lol…way to validate what you’re trying to refute.
If as you propose the Catholic Church were responsible for denying equal rights via brainwashing then the social media premise is validated.
Second the USA is the only country where ‘equal rights’ is the ideal and of course a Judeochristian mindset.
Third long before the ancient text which was accepted three hundred years prior to your assertion there was the Judeo creed which still to this day denies women equal rights.

As for the post it is too long for this site’s general readers. It’s also shaping up well as chapters to a well researched book that will sell well in religious circles. My experience with the Catholic Church is that the conference organizers where books of this nature gain foothold will reject it as a feature option because the author isn’t a good speaker candidate. On the other hand the book will make its through the smaller denominations where charismatic preachers will pitch it via their pulpits and social media followings.

By: spawn777

spawn777 — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 11:36:27 +0000

I agree with joeschmoe that there is too much to even bother commenting on, but I will say two things:
1. The constitution is what it is. If you don’t get how 5 non-elected officials can vote on interpreting the law, then read it, and it will tell you.
2. What the hell do the millennials have to do with the price of beer? They didn’t vote on the issue. And since you start off complaining about the justices voting without the will of the people, its hard to understand why the will of the millennials has any bearing whatsoever and why you claim its so important.
I lied, one last thing: “Why the millennial generation were so adamant in their support for gay marriage, was their support a result of their free will, or were their perception and emotions manipulated by an ever- expansive, ever-intrusive government, public education system, social network, corporate media, etc?” This doesn’t have to be a big conspiracy, it can simply be complementary conditioning like we’ve seen with women’s rights, civil rights, etc. I’m sure there was a document like this decades ago, wondering where all of the good will toward slavery had disappeared to, or wondering who was giving these women all these crazy ideas that they needed their own vote. You can cast them as dark forces warping our thinking, but its just as likely people getting on board with an idea long overdue.

By: joeschmoe

joeschmoe — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:12:16 +0000

Too much here to even waste energy commenting, but it is amazing we are in 2015 and people are still throwing pedophilia into essays about homosexuality and gay rights. The numbers of men that abuse under age girls is astronomical so it shatters anything you say when you still bring the “gay conditioning = pedo” mindset.

At the end of it all, people with christian brainwashed thinking believe they should continue to deny people equal rights because 2 or three lines in an ancient text might be interpreted as condemning it. Were it not for the Catholic Church making this one of their mantras 1700 years ago this would never have been an issue. Gay couplings have been around in written human history just as long as hetro couplings; so this notion of “tradition” is nonsense because both are tradition. One group has decided to deny rights to another group; and did so because they were a vast majority and as we know in human history, vast majorities love to push around small groups who are different… whether that be race, religion, sexual orientation, or anything.

People like this writer, go on about brainwashing and conditioning, without realizing the very reason people in society deny gay rights and freedoms; BECAUSE OF CONDITIONING THAT CAME FROM A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION. I am only focusing on Catholic as we are in a nation where it is Christians who are fighting it. There are plenty of other religions in the world that do this too.

And before all you “Protestant” Christians somehow say you have nothing to do with Catholics, the bible you read came from them, the laws and rules were all rooted and preserved by them until people started to splinter off.

Check your history. Two or three verses written by an unknown author thousands of years ago has been the basis to condition centuries of people to deny rights.

By: MikeSouth1226

MikeSouth1226 — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:02:47 +0000

Over the Rainbow Revisited Chapter III: The Great Divide http://t.co/yN8y9rZ5P7