Recent content by Electric Skeptic

Relies on the premise that fetus are people who deserve consideration on an equal basis with actual people, which is not in evidence. I don't want to destroy anything, although it's amusing to note that conservative so-called Christians look at any change to improve the lot of people is...

I find it quite appropriate. We're not talking about sex.

Completely false. Unlike conservative so-called Christians, I am entirely concerned with kindness toward trans people and gay people and non-binary people. I'm not the one fighting against recognising such people. I'm not the one trying to take those people's rights away. That would be you lot...

The difference is that liberals are trying to do so to expand the rights of others - to allow homosexuals to marry, to allow trans people to be recognised and treated by their gender. Going back, it was liberals who "controlled and set the agenda" to fight for black civil rights, to get women...

And, of course, you will in turn keep YOUR personal ideas and desires to yourself, right? No teaching that homosexuality or trans is wrong, no trying to normalise heterosexual relationships (which, of course, just means abnormalising non-hetrosexual relationships), no preaching against sex...

It is far more kind to him to acknowledge that he might feel like he is a girl, rather than a boy, than it is to disparage him and remove the possibility of the only 'treatment' that has shown any kind of benefit. Anorexia is not at issue, nor is it comparable. Still not at issue nor...

Nice try. I'm not angry except against harmful, spiteful people like conservative so-called Christians. Neither turning upside down nor "alleviating an internal mental disorder" is at issue. You're the one saying so, not me. Since I don't ignore child grooming or sexualising children nor do I...

You remind me of the people who said things like "I'll call the darkies 'boy' until the day I die - if that offense people, I simply don't care". Of course it can be denied. I deny it.

No, the real issue is why conservative so-called Christians have such a fixation on not being kind when doing so would hurt nobody and help some.

I'm sorry, but insulting me doesn't even address the issues I raised.

Ad hominem, insult and once again contributing zero to the discussion.

It should never be, according to the Bible. John 14:13: "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do". No ifs, ands or buts, no conditions. WHATSOEVER we ask in Jesus' name, he will do. How, then, could he ever say no?

In what way, then, is God different from my coffee table? If I pray to my coffee table, sometimes the prayers are answered (i.e., I get what I asked for); sometimes not. Using prayer alone as a metric, how do you know that God is a more substantive prayer recipient than my coffee table?

Yes, agreed. Which would mean that from the point of view of changing God's mind, prayers are futile and pointless (there may be other points of view from which they are not; in this paragraph I'm just talking about from the point of view of getting him to change his mind). Sure, he had a good...

Thanks for yet again contributing nothing but ad hominem.