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popsdenver

(2,821 posts)
7. No shit
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 01:20 PM
2 hrs ago

I have waited all my life to see things that would help me believe that there is a GOD......nothing so far, NADA, Zip, Zero....

generalbetrayus

(2,067 posts)
4. My youngest son and I were at home watching television when he turned to me and said, "Dad, I'm gay."
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 01:01 PM
2 hrs ago

I turned to him and said, "Really?" (He's kind of a comedian; my girlfriend tells me she can tell when I'm talking to him on the phone because I'm always laughing.). He said, "Really." I asked him if he had a boyfriend and he replied in the affirmative. Then we went back to watching TV.

twodogsbarking

(19,855 posts)
9. Our youngest son has been with his partner for 20 years, married more than 10. Son in law is a great guy, like our son.
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 01:43 PM
1 hr ago

Glad they are happy with each other.

FakeNoose

(43,050 posts)
11. It took a lot of guts for him to tell you like that
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 02:22 PM
1 hr ago

Maybe he was hoping to talk more about it? Sometimes parents need to realize that listening is the best gift we can give them.

BidenRocks

(3,660 posts)
5. My version
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 01:03 PM
2 hrs ago

Frame 2 the father quips, And I'm not! Smiles.
Frame 3 the father extends his arms
Frame 4 they hug and Father says I love you!

This version is void in RW Christo-Fascist parts of the country.
Sorry. They get V-1

Grim Chieftain

(2,318 posts)
6. About time God did something positive
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 01:10 PM
2 hrs ago

I'm afraid he's been asleep at the wheel the last two years.

31j20b3

(107 posts)
12. I have trouble believing an all knowing God would set us up for failure by
Sat Jun 27, 2026, 03:01 PM
30 min ago

providing human species with the capacity for bonding with same sex partners

I don't really believe and I certainly don't know that God exists and has a particular set of rules that cause us to run against the inclinations she gave us.

She would know that any such capacity would be expressed in many people. Not by the fault of people, but by the diversity she created.
Why would a rational, loving, and fair God create churches that punish us for expressing the full range of her creation?

IMO this is evidence that God based western churches were created not by God but by people. People decided that that God should mostly bey JUST LIKE US, and capable of all our foibles, tricks, and petty jealousies and hatreds. Such a God seems quite UNreal, being probably created by HUMANS who wanted a God just like them, who priotitized all their interests in foible, tricks, petty jealousy and hatred.

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