Comments by "ncwordman" (@ncwordman) on "MTG Spotted Spewing Hate Instead Of Doing Her Job" video.
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@GrinningZaguate "Nope. Dead wrong. Sexy is NOT binary according to actual science — but I’m pretty certain facts don’t mean a whole lot to people stuck in a belief system."
Interesting. You're pretty sneaky. It's true that biological sex is NOT binary. I notice how you then didn't say the same thing about gender. Impressive, sneaky troll. For most purposes, sex is binary. However, it really isn't. So you're right. But calling the OP "dead wrong" is pushing the point a little, especially since you didn't elaborate on what you meant.
The OP is not dead wrong, as in completely wrong, because they also wrote this: "There are as many genders as people who believe in them are able to construct. Gender is a social construct, whereas biological sex is established and evidenced science."
And they were completely right about that. The only thing anyone can take exception with, then, is their first sentence. But since everyone is still so stuck on whether or not gender is binary, let's focus on one thing at a time. Shall we?
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@paulw4044 Okay, but then I need some input from you.
"Jesus replied: “'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' / This is the first and greatest commandment. / And the second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’" (Matt. 22:37-39.)
The first and greatest commandment, then, is to love God with everything you got. Okay. Fine. But what does that mean, exactly? The answer comes in the second one, which the various English texts translate as "equally important,...like unto it,...like it."
And that would seem to be easily interpreted as meaning "equivalent to." So the first one equals the second one. And since the first one asks to love God with everything you have, then what that first one is really saying is to love your neighbor with everything you have.
Jesus went on to say that was all the Law (the 5 books of Moses) and the Prophets (which is everything else that Christians call the Old Testament). So the entirety of Judaism comes down to this: Love one another with everything you got, in the way that a religious person loves God.
And since Jesus builds Christianity on Judaism, then what he says there refers to Christian love as well. To spread that word, that message, is a heavy calling. Loving one another is something the greater mass of humanity has not yet accomplished.
So, if you want to minister, then you need to come from a place of loving everyone and everything, because that's what God is (in human terms): everyone and everything.
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@hunglikeahorse---fly "ok... there's a passage where your "one and only God" says to not worship any other God's. There are OTHER gods???"
First, pull your claws back in: I'm not religious. I am well read, however, and write essays on the Gospels. I'm a wordman, i.e., a writer. I read and write about all kinds of stuff.
Back to your post, yes, in fact the very first commandment is, "That shalt have no other Gods before me."
This is stated many times, in many ways, throughout the text. That doesn't mean there are other gods, but rather that other gods are worshiped. Right?
Couple of basic things to keep in mind here. First, this text was written at a time when there were a lot of Israelites mingling with the other cultures in Palestine. The text also speaks against that. But they did it any way.
Even the Jews' greatest Biblical hero, David, married Bathsheba, who wasn't a Jew. Interestingly enough, it was from that "abomination" of a marriage that King Solomon was born. And it was from Solomon that the Gospel of Matthew traces Jesus' ancestors. So Jesus was born from this unlawful practice, which was mainly put in place to stop the Israelites from worshiping pagan gods.
And the law had a point, in that, among many others, Solomon worshiped pagan gods. But from the worshiping of other gods, we get Jesus. :)
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