[consider this guy is a evangelical preacher in Guatemala]
The JWs are a pain in the rear! In Germany they are not allowed to talk to you on the streets unless you approach them. I like that! They are very persistant and prey on the weak who don't know the Word of God.
[The last sentance just reeks of pot, kettle and black]
(Concerning homosexual adoption)
The sad thing right out of the gate is that it is so difficult for the average couple to adopt a child in the first place let alone gay or straight.
On this one, I am going to part ways with you buddy. I look at child formation as a critical facet to spiritual development. A loving gay couple could confuse the child to thinking that the homosexual lifestyle is ok, but it is not. Think of it this way, would you want a couple with psychological problems to adapt? Much research has been done (buried by the intelligencia) to indicates that homosexuality is a sickness developed very early on through a lack of critical factors typically found in the parental/ child relationship. When these factors are absent in early, early childhood development, the Childs unmet need deviently turns inward and manifests to be met in the homosexual urge. Therefore, homosexuality is a psychological disorder that would preclude them from becoming parents.
Their spiritual welfare is most paramount and two wrongs don’t make a right.
See the work of Joseph Nicolosi in his practice treating homosexuals.
The answer is to open up the restrictions on child adoption in this Country and help fund faith based programs that help educate high risk youth from having babies on the one hand and the formation of faith based orphanages on the other.
(this place is an absolute goldmine of fundie quotes. And this is from one of the less fundie ones)
If you see atheism as a belief then there is a similarity as there is no proof of atheism as you cannot prove a negative, that there is no God. Atheism is a belief, an erroneous one in my estimation. I think that atheism is not motivated by reason but by a desire to escape morality.
(The old atheists are immoral/ammoral argument)
One of the problems with materialistic atheism is that it is narrow-minded and dogmatic in closing itself from knowledge that does not conform to materialism and naturalism. We are more open-minded. We accept there is knowledge derived from scientific testing and reasoning. We are entirely willing to accept material and natural causes but we admit the possibility of other ways of knowing.
As atheism operates within naturalism and entirely depends on it it cannot admit the possibility of other ways of knowing.
A loving gay couple could confuse the child to thinking that the homosexual lifestyle is ok, but it is not. Think of it this way, would you want a couple with psychological problems to adapt? Much research has been done (buried by the intelligencia) to indicates that homosexuality is a sickness developed very early on through a lack of critical factors typically found in the parental/ child relationship. When these factors are absent in early, early childhood development, the Childs unmet need deviently turns inward and manifests to be met in the homosexual urge. Therefore, homosexuality is a psychological disorder that would preclude them from becoming parents.