When it was your post the moderators here chose to let the vulgarity directed at me stand.

Now that I've quoted you let's see if it's now suddenly inappropriate.

Clown,

"Just get out there and suck a dick."

That's as crude as the crap I had to tolerate in the Navy.

You're no better than the slim I put up with back then.

Snoofy,

It's not what Musk is doing that has some people worried.

It's what he isn't doing.

Snoofy,

Why are you acting like you really care about Twitter or what Elon Musk thinks?

As if either really matter on the scheme of things.

Are you just afraid Musk isn't being intimidated?

And honestly....I don't know how much I actually believe this is all being prompted by gays or transgendered people.

Radical liberals, some who are gay but most who aren't, are using gay related issues to create conflict with mainstream society.

Trans issues aren't even gay issues but gays will be implicated all the same.

Very unfortunate.

Gays are just determined to complain about relatively insignificant things to create a desired culture war.

Gays today are riding on the backs of some serious violent gay hating that went on and was mostly left behind.

But they want their own culture war so instead of police raids, they complain about people saying "he".

Keep it up and stir the pot. They'll get the all out in the open gay hating culture war they're so desiring and turn back gay acceptance 20 years.

Sy,

That's not exactly true.

You need to watch the series I mentioned.

Legal,

"We didn't know there WAS a universe until 1923."

So what do we not know exists right at this moment that's all around us?

Redial,

"Either you believe it, or you don't."

That's not a true statement.

I will say I believe both are possible and most likely there is something greater/smarter/more powerful than man.

How does this ufo stuff correlate to religion?

Just imagine if the government released information it had been hiding.

What would it do to society?

For that very reason our government will never release information willingly but would most likely be leaked if there was anything of substance.

Watch the series on the History Channel Unidentified Inside Americas UFO Investigations.
and a movie
The Phenomenon (basically many of the same information as the series I mentioned but with more odd stories)

Then...a controversial documentary of sorts called Thrive.
The first hour is a different perspective mostly looking at crop circles. The movie got panned pretty hard but just let the information stand for itself.

Some people are pretty concerned this may be something dangerous and not necessarily alien in nature.

But the evidence is hard to deny there isn't something around us all governments are in the dark and goes back for many decades (centuries possibly...and maybe on earth longer than mankind?). This is leaving the ufo kook closet and being taken seriously.

Dan,

"You told Laura very specifically she would NOT be seeing you in heaven."

Twice you accused me of directly addressing Laura by judging and condemning her.

Do not tell lies about me.

I don't write that like.

Now kindly crawl back in your hole and leave me alone. I will not respond to your lies and accusations.

Dan,

"You told Laura very specifically she would NOT be seeing you in heaven."

Christian doctrine holds that if anyone is not "saved", they won't be in heaven.

It's very possible I wrote something similar to what you're saying depending on the context.

Frankly...I'm not 100% sure of anything so it's unlikely I'd make absolute statements.

But I don't make blanket judgements about individual people. I don't know anyone's background or history if perhaps they might be "saved".

That's not my call.

On 6-19-22 I wrote the following,

Dan,
"Like when you told Laura you wouldn't see her in the afterlife?"
Find that post and share it.
POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON AT 2022-06-19 07:26 PM

It seems you have made that accusation before. Did you find the post and share it like I asked?
Now's your chance. Christian doctrine does include the belief that anyone who is not "saved" is doomed in the afterlife. However, me specifically singling out Laura needs to be proven.

I don't make it a habit of singling anyone out saying they are "going to hell"

Hag,

No...Dan is lying.

Dan,

I'm not Catholic so I don't follow the Pope.

Dan,

"You basically told Laura Mohr she was going to hell."

I only said Jesus isn't an enabler.

Also, I prefer not to discuss one poster with another.

I am changing one word.

change "gift" to "offer".

It's not a gift in the sense we all think but it is an offer of salvation.

Being a gay Christian is a test of faith.

There are conservative Christians who have not yet come to terms with the idea of being a gay person who is also a Christian. Actually, I don't entirely believe liberals have either.

I think some liberals way of justifying the conflict is by discounting the sinful aspect of homosexuality in the Bible. They have decided homosexual behavior is not a sin and just a misinterpretation in the Bible.

True story.

After getting out of the Navy I had no where to go and was not yet 20. I had been in the Navy from the age of 17 to 19 and discharged for being a practicing homosexual.

Once I was sitting with a friend in a restaurant, who bought me lunch in a big city, and was talking about being unsure what to do with myself. I had no where to go and no parents to fall back on.

A Pastor of a MCC church (Metropolitan Community Church) in the 70's that was newly founded overheard me and walked over to me and started talking to me and offered me a room in his apartment with him and his lover. There never was anything sexual about it and he was genuinely offering to help me....a perfect stranger. He was rarely home and we talked when he was. His lover got me a job where I worked until I started college, thanks to the friend I met at that rally I talked about before who helped me get enrolled in classes after finding out I was a Veteran.

So...my point. The Pastor and I spent time talking. I don't think his views were exactly like what I hear from liberal Christian churches today. MCC was known in the 70's as a church that encourages gay people to continue with their walk of faith. There were few options in those days and the prevailing opinion was being gay and Christian were mutually exclusive. MCC was founded by a man who felt compelled to minister to gay people.

My point is I personally have handled the conflict not by denying homosexuality is a sin.

Instead....I have chosen to believe I am forgiven because I believe in Him and He died for my sins. I accept my sinful nature as just something that's part of me. I am a sinner. We're all sinners and can never stop feeling the way I feel. That's the whole point of Christianity....forgiveness.

I am forgiven and that applies to all people...gay or straight...who are willing to accept the gift of salvation in exchange for repentance. I choose to believe Jesus was God who came to earth and was the final sacrifice for all mankind for anyone who decides to believe it.

I don't agree with what I hear from some liberal churches that deal with the conflict by saying homosexuality isn't a sin. In the Bible it is.

Back to my first sentence....being a gay Christian is a test of faith.

I am pulled in different directions by different viewpoints anywhere from crazy preachers who spread their hatred of gays and liberals who spread their hatred of Christians.

I am a gay man who is also a sinner and a Christian and forgiven.

Snoofy,

Even today, if a person came up in a non-Christian family and converted they might find themselves at odds.

Snoofy,

Specifically, the "context" of the times was Jesus and His earliest followers had the Romans and the Jews who didn't approve of them.

Anyone who converted would be at odds with their families.

Snoofy,

"Context?"

People don't usually like being told they're a sinner.

The Bible makes a comparison of shining a light illuminating the evil around them.

I think that's one of the swords Jesus might have been referring.

Laura,

People have been discussing that for centuries who exactly was He.

Is Christianity a religion of war or peace?

Matthew 10:34-35,

"Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

If this story is true he should be getting a visit from the police and informed he is not allowed to encourage violence (only politicians are allowed to do that).

This is not Christ-like and only serves to give people "see I told you so" ammo (so to speak).