Casting Stones (And Logic) To The Drain...
Following behind Hedonese, I'll pick (I guess that is the word to describe it) on a letter written to the Star (7 December) I received just now. It sounds quite similar to that of Yvonne Foong's commentary on the issue linked to by Hedonese, who posted on the same subject.
Dave brought up, I think, an important issue when discussing with other people on these kind of issues. Namely, that of love and respect. Too often we get caught up in polemics that we forget those things.
Anyway, people have been saying "let he who is without sin cast the first stone" recently. Here are some excerpts of one letter to the Star:
Who defines normalcy anyway? Who is to decide how a person lives his life? What is so wrong about two people in love marrying each other?
Here is an interesting but logically self-refuting emotional response. For, if nobody (by that writer's logic) defines normalcy or how a person lives his life, then he has no write to say that there is nothing wrong with "two people marrying each other" (he is defining normalcy) and condemning those whose who criticise their marriage (he is telling people how to live).
Then he goes on to say that if it is about religion, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. But I wonder if we follow that logic when we condemn rapists and murderers.
Methinks the unbeliever has no coherent worldview to live by. I also think that this is the best moment a Christian ought to come in and show the Truth.
And to use Hedonese's words, "At least that's how I see it."
Dave brought up, I think, an important issue when discussing with other people on these kind of issues. Namely, that of love and respect. Too often we get caught up in polemics that we forget those things.
Anyway, people have been saying "let he who is without sin cast the first stone" recently. Here are some excerpts of one letter to the Star:
Who defines normalcy anyway? Who is to decide how a person lives his life? What is so wrong about two people in love marrying each other?
Here is an interesting but logically self-refuting emotional response. For, if nobody (by that writer's logic) defines normalcy or how a person lives his life, then he has no write to say that there is nothing wrong with "two people marrying each other" (he is defining normalcy) and condemning those whose who criticise their marriage (he is telling people how to live).
Then he goes on to say that if it is about religion, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. But I wonder if we follow that logic when we condemn rapists and murderers.
Methinks the unbeliever has no coherent worldview to live by. I also think that this is the best moment a Christian ought to come in and show the Truth.
And to use Hedonese's words, "At least that's how I see it."
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