God is a God of love and he sent His Son Jesus to free the Jews from the strict laws of the Old Testament.  That is why his work and teachings are considered a New Testament.  He said you could follow the Law and live and be judged by its strictures, or you could follow his teachings and be eternally forgiven, accepted and loved.  Please read your Holy Books with common sense.

@Matie: Yes, but pornofan these are generally in the Middle East. You certainly wouldn't 'trump' your atheism around in Iraq or Syria. Or for that matter, the UAE. Or maybe parts of the US depending on who's asking, their reason for asking and what their preferred answer would be I think I'd rather claim to be atheist than be the 'wrong' religion or denomination in Iraq or Syria as to the OP, your beliefs are a personal matter for you, it doesn't matter what other people think so you would hope it wouldn't matter if they know or not, however if you would risk being oppressed for your beliefs then it may be better to keep it quiet.

I must say I do like the A&F look some of them have, and wouldnt mind getting down and dirty with them. But only under the agreement they keep their mouth shut about LDS church. I cant deal with stupid. But that kinda stands with any religion pushing guy, I guess.

While I cannot condone outright refusing people the right to decide for themselves, I do think that, in its current incarnation, religion is inherently a tool to create arbitrary social divisions. I agree with Darth117 that the best course of action is simply to inform the populace, and let religion die a more natural death.

It's relevant for museums and studies on Mithology and on human capability of believing in almost anything albeit its complete irracional nature.

I will never understand the existence of gay christians.

@Valicore: You of course can't change it, anymore than you can make a straight person gay. Sexual attraction is a very complicated combination of genetics, environment, epigenetics, etc. I don't think you would be any more successful at changing someone's sexual orientation through genetic therapies than you would be at changing one's bone structure - it's too deeply embedded in the brain and in our body's physical chemistry. Agreed–I feel like there's an infinite number of variables that contribute to homosexuality--and the one thing I can say is that it's natural. It occurs at a relatively uncommon (compared to heterosexuality), but constant rate. It happens in wildlife and humans--I don't think we could ever learn enough about what "causes" homosexuality to ever be able to change it.  And then again, why would we need to? It's never going to overtake heterosexuality but it's never going away either--it's constant. Sexuality, (and by that I mean true, willing attraction to whatever it is you're attracted to) cannot be taught. Behaviors can be taught, but behaviors don't say everything about what's going on inside the brain.  True sexual identification can only happen individually–you can never see inside someone's brain to see if their sexual experience is exactly the same as yours, even if you both identify the same way. As each person learns to understand the world differently, they come to understand themselves differently, and (what we categorize as) sexuality follows. It just is, and we're all trying to describe our experience. Our labels (homo/hetero/bi/a/pan/every other type of sexuality) are just a categorization of external behaviors, but inside each of our brains, it's much much more complex and and no two humans are alike. That's why I don't think it can or should ever try to be changed.

Finally! A religion that teaches love and sharing

Thanks for your reply. I tried to find the movie that you said but I cant..

@Spintendo: Before Pope Francis Met Kim Davis, He Met With Gay Ex-Student By Jim Yardley and Laurie Goodstein of The New York Times OCT. 2, 2015 If Archbishop Viganò is held responsible for what is seen as a grave misstep on an important papal trip, he is likely to be removed at the first respectable opportunity, according to several church analysts. "The pope has to be able to rely on his own system, and in this case the system failed him. The question is, was it a mistake, or was it done with full knowledge of how toxic she was?” Britney was there as well, that bitch!    :crazy2:

Just now on the morning news the vatican has said he regrets meeting with her.  Giggle.

Lock her up, and throw away the key.

YES!!! As a brazilian guy i felt angry for those retarded motherfuckers!!! there's no even a kiss on it, it's insine how this people live for trynna diss everybody whose different of their stupid way of living!

Freud is still liked because he was "father" of psychology, despite being wrong about most everything.

I have no evidence but: 1. Sympathy with another minority 2. Live and let live mentality As I say on the basis of knowing nothing

i like indian movies and respect there culture

Hi this is something that I had to do myself Today. I am a member of my Local church I live in the UK. I told a very close friend and the vicar of the church a few years ago and they where fine. I am still good friends with them. However I have decided to come out to the whole church for a reason. Basically there was this young lady who liked me. So I decided it was best if I was upfront about being gay so no one got hurt. I also decided to let other people know. I guess over the next few weeks I will find out how people take it. But everyone I spoke to seems to be ok by it and in some weird way it feels like a heavy load as been lifted off me.

Elder Miller, Titov, Peter are so cute and hot… I would kill to get inside of their uniforms >:D but Elder Peter video does not exist on the site now. so  :cry2: