Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "why conversion therapy is utterly wrong" video.

  1. “Ignorance,” is not to Miriam’s, “credit,” is it? If she’d been doing her job, she would have been aware of the abuses going on under her watch, as you said. Tories still don’t grasp how exhausted we voters are with the same old tired excuses, constantly being trotted out. Frankly, I don’t believe her. Here’s an irony for you. The sorts of people who think conversion therapy (regarding sexual identity or proclivity) is a worth while enterprise, are the sorts of people who really would benefit from intervention and therapy. I am a Christian believer, if a poor example for my faith. There is no prohibition against homosexuality as a, “life choice,” in the Bible, that I know of. When we read terms like, “abomination,” in connection with, “Sodom,” or, “sodomy,” we are reading a story about sexual violence, not consent. But, wilful misinterpretation is meat and drink to most, “Christian,” churches. It’s was more authoritative to tell Galileo that he’s defying, “scriptures,” than for him to get away with telling them, “No. You’ve read it wrong,” which would have resulted in an instant violent sentencing. Nothing in science, “contradicts,” scripture, as my youngest daughter will attest who has just passed her PhD and become a Doctor of Physics at St Andrews University. It so often comes down to vicious little cliques, wilfully exploiting the vagaries of dubious translations of the Bible for their own ends. I doubt Christ will find many Christians in the churches if and when he comes back for us. I certainly know that many Christians don’t even know that we are not meant to live by the laws of the Old Testament at all! Jesus was pretty unambiguous about this! But, churches tend to be hypocritical in their selective adherence to the Old Testament ways, gladly accepting tithes (preferably in cash, not 10% of what you produce) but they never request a burnt offering for some reason? . . . Oh, don’t get me started on the institutions of, “Christianity.” Few of them are real.
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