Is it ironic that while I was watching coverage of the Orlando situation, I had 2 AK's on the floor and a .45 and was stripping and cleaning them? Is there some kind of gun penance?
No luck on Grindr lately?Two terrible blights, blotches, stains on the Earth are homosexuals and Islam. This week we got two sinful entities entering each other's space. Watching all these men cuddling after the massacre made me want to vomit in my mouth a bit. They kept switching the camera from the Muslim nutjob's selfies to these effeminate guys hugging and holding each other stroking one another's hair. Truly tough to watch between the death, the Muslim, and the rainbow scenes.
while I think cappacodious' response is a little over the top, I do think there's nothing wrong with men showing physical affection for each other. Now of course, I'm not talking about sexual affection, but, to say seeing men show physical affection made one to vomit a little is over the top too.
I think this whole aversion to men showing any kind of physical affection for each other and assuming that any and all of it is sexual is not healthy and contributes to the confusion and tension we have regarding this issue.
And... here comes the reaction to what I just said, lol!
Is it ironic that while I was watching coverage of the Orlando situation, I had 2 AK's on the floor and a .45 and was stripping and cleaning them? Is there some kind of gun penance?
No, just good maintenance schedule. I clean my arsenal regularly, whether they've been fired or not.
Long live the fighters!
while I think cappacodious' response is a little over the top, I do think there's nothing wrong with men showing physical affection for each other. Now of course, I'm not talking about sexual affection, but, to say seeing men show physical affection made one to vomit a little is over the top too.
I think this whole aversion to men showing any kind of physical affection for each other and assuming that any and all of it is sexual is not healthy and contributes to the confusion and tension we have regarding this issue.
And... here comes the reaction to what I just said, lol!
I am profoundly troubled this morning as I read the various social media reports and messages regarding the mass murder in Orlando. I have read many posts which call for us as Christians to pray for, love, and help those who have been victims of the shooting.
I am appalled that when I first heard of the shootings, I felt nothing. I am deeply troubled that I have such a cold and indifferent heart to human suffering, and am so unlike our Lord in having love for all sinners.
What does the West have to do with this? Precisely this:
I attended Southern Fried Fundamentalist churches for 13 years. I had just come out of a life of tremendous evil myself, yet through the preaching in these churches, I was made to feel that somehow I am now "better than those terrible sinners" who have not come to Christ. There is a kind of triumphalist preaching in Fundamentalism (you know - we are right and God loves us because we are right, and everyone else is going to the hell they deserve). This sort of preaching breeds contempt for others, not Christian charity.
And it finds a particularly warm and inviting home in the hearts and minds of people who are already quite broken and who latch onto this sort of preaching as a way of feeling better about themselves. The ultimate expression of this is, of course, the Westboror Baptist bunch.
Then I went to PCA Calvinism for the next 12 years. Again, that Western mindset crops up: we are "the elect," and all others who are not elect are God's enemies. And you can tell who are God's enemies by how much they love sin and how depraved their sins are.
Finally, the preaching of God's wrath against sinners (think Jonathan Edwards) in both of these denominations made it quite clear to me that I was right to hate and despise these sinners. After all, our pastor hated them, called them "sodomites" and spoke, sometimes with great relish, of their eternal torment in a deserved lake of fire forever.
Do you see what I have lacked for 25 years - anything to do with the love of God. Any idea that God loves every single human being, that God is love, and love is how we are to treat all men and women, was either not preached, tepidly mentioned, or sometimes made fun of. I remember sermons in which God was presented as the angry, vengeful God who hates sinners.
God hates? I thought the Bible says that God is love.
Anyway, because of deep psychological scarring in my own soul, this putrid way of thinking has taken deep root in my soul. I am stunned at how heartless I am, yet professing to be a follower of the One who is love incarnate.
Not much I can do except pray, ask for the Holy Spirit, and continue to repent of such thinking. But this poison runs deep, and I again blame the Western theological approach - the vengeful God who hates sinners and tosses them into hell with glee - as bringing me to such a terrible place in my life.
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I think our society's general repulsion towards any physical affection between guys is extreme and does lead to confusion in many guy's minds. I think we could ease up on that a little.
California is kind of known for its "fruits and nuts", isn't it? Come to Mississippi--we probably have some gays but they don't act like yours.You and I must be living in two different societies!?! Every time I turn on the news, all the men are effeminate or gay, bi, or metrosexual wimps being interviewed. Anderson Cooper is gay. Don Lemon is gay. Rachel Maddow is gay. TV shows have loads of wimpy characters who are fruity-acting. I live in the most conservative town in CA yet our mayor was lesbian. Everywhere I go now I see this stuff. We have gay and trans kids at our elementary school, lesbian mothers who look like they belong to the Sons of Anarchy.
Most of the men that work at Target here in town sound like they have lisps while they wear skinny jeans and faux Hawks. You see them hug other men and say things like "thanks girlfriend" to each other. My wife was commenting to me lately how so many men working at these restaurants sound super gay. There are gays at my gym here in the red state part of CA.
The dads at my school baby their boys now coddling them so much they're like little Elton Johns!
We live in a "participation award" wimpy society. I can't fathom how you think there's too much manliness!?! It's as if a giant satellite came to Earth sucking the testosterone straight out of the men...
I hear you.You and I must be living in two different societies!?! Every time I turn on the news, all the men are effeminate or gay, bi, or metrosexual wimps being interviewed. Anderson Cooper is gay. Don Lemon is gay. Rachel Maddow is gay. TV shows have loads of wimpy characters who are fruity-acting. I live in the most conservative town in CA yet our mayor was lesbian. Everywhere I go now I see this stuff. We have gay and trans kids at our elementary school, lesbian mothers who look like they belong to the Sons of Anarchy.
Most of the men that work at Target here in town sound like they have lisps while they wear skinny jeans and faux Hawks. You see them hug other men and say things like "thanks girlfriend" to each other. My wife was commenting to me lately how so many men working at these restaurants sound super gay. There are gays at my gym here in the red state part of CA.
The dads at my school baby their boys now coddling them so much they're like little Elton Johns!
We live in a "participation award" wimpy society. I can't fathom how you think there's too much manliness!?! It's as if a giant satellite came to Earth sucking the testosterone straight out of the men...
Isn't it a coffee shop?What is Grindr?
It's some kind of gay dating website. There is also Tindr, which I believe is the heterosexual version. From what I gather it's more about hooking up than dates, but I don't use any of this stuff so I don't know for sure.Isn't it a coffee shop?
It's some kind of gay dating website. There is also Tindr, which I believe is the heterosexual version. From what I gather it's more about hooking up than dates, but I don't use any of this stuff so I don't know for sure.
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