Comments on: Pope says saving heterosexuality like saving the rainforest

By: nick

nick — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:17:17 +0000

What is he going to do with all the clearly non-heterosexual people in the Church then?

By: Barbara Irwin

Barbara Irwin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:03:51 +0000

Hi folks, I think Benedict was merely pointing out, gently many people are concerned about the environment , but that moral issues are important, even in our day. Certain groups have popular, even powerful lobbies and it is up to us to let everyone know that their views are in the minority.
As well we need to recall the heterosexuality is the norm and is natural, since it may result in reproducing the next generation.

By: brian lee

brian lee — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:07:44 +0000

thanks for the advice owen,but no i am not scared ,not in the least.nietzsche wrote books to confuse people like your self,and at the end his life died in an asylum ,screaming because he was scared of the prospect that the god he had denied all his life, might exist. why am i so convinced? because one night 20years ago he showed up in my bedroom,and made him self known to me,simple as that.never had studied books about him,but over 20years he has changed my personality. when things go wrong down the road and if you get desperate, which people do, don,t despair there is door that might be opened to you.god bless.

By: Owen

Owen — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:12:57 +0000

to be honest, I tend not to worry about how I die, you shouldn’t be religious because your scared of how you friends died. also, it is known that people who believe that they have no control over their fate and that it is decided for them tend to be more pessimitic, study a books on personality and you’ll find that out.

By: brian lee

brian lee — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:29:47 +0000

yes owen we all have our own opinion,i held the same views as you. jesus said to the deciples”you have been GIVEN the knowledge to understand the mystries of god”.so probably will continue to live your life with out this understanding.sadly the people i have known who had the same philosophy as you din,t die to well,or with the same conviction,sorry perhaps you suggest i am trying to frighten you” eat drink and be merry”.

By: Owen

Owen — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:04:19 +0000

At the end of the day, no matter what the Pope said, religion is just a book of fictional stories, there is no God, no Saviour and no Heaven and Hell. We live in a highly advanced society in which we no longer need religion as we did in the past when people were scared into joining the Church by horror stories of Hell. Religion is nothing more than a nice story, and Christianity is merely born from Paganism e.g. the Devil’s pitchfork originated from Poesidon’s trident.
It’s time to move on from old-fashioned religious beliefs that have no place in our world today.

By: NR

NR — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:46:02 +0000

There is a lot of comment on what God thinks in the comments – anyone actually got this from the horse’s mouth? Your belief is not evidence.

By: Elaine Vigneault

Elaine Vigneault — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:26:41 +0000

Go vegan!
But don’t necessarily go straight.

Our moral obligations are to each other, animals, and the planet.

By: TheTruthIs...

TheTruthIs... — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:13:37 +0000

Get real folks, the vast majority of child abuse is carried out against little girls. Studies show that gay men are de facto less likely to abuse and that abuse is often linked to heterosexual power games, as well as sex obsession.

All child abuse is an evil we must try to prevent.

The world is better off for reality checks.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:27:13 +0000

The Thersesa Benedicta tranlation is: “That which has come to be expressed and understood with the term ‘gender’ effectively results in man’s self-emancipation from Creation (nature) …..” The speech was given in Italian: “Ciò che spesso viene espresso ed inteso con il termine “gender”, si risolve in definitiva nella autoemancipazione dell’uomo dal creato e dal Creatore.” Notice that the word “gender” is in quotations in the original. In Italian, this word does not mean the English “gender,” it is a word that is used for the sexually different: homosexuals, lesbians, transgender people.

Thus, the reporting may be sensationalistic, but it is not inaccurate.