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<blockquote data-quote="cadisneygirl" data-source="post: 2609624" data-attributes="member: 261375">You need to stop taking such offense over the instant reaction and actually look at the arguments being made in the comparisons.People do this all the time and it is annoying because they are just being intellectually lazy by doing it.You arent classifying people as the same or the action as identical in terms of the kind of harm it does others or society.What they are saying is that they are all sins and all sin tears you away from God.&nbsp; Some sins tear you away much farther and are harder to recover from.&nbsp; I have a hard time believing a JW made the statement God hates anyone and that is obviously a harsh and incinderary statement, but generally the statement is that sin is sin and it is all harmful.&nbsp; Yes, it is all harmful to the individual, but clearly some sins are more harmful to others.It is like when you try to argue how the genetics argument is absolutely ridiculous in the gay rights debate and make the comment that just because a pedophile is born that way doesnt mean what they are doing is acceptable.Instead of actually thinking the logic of the argument through, how many people will freak out and state, oh my gosh did you just compare homosexuals to pedophiles.No, I compared the logic of stating that just because a person is born attracted to the same sex it should be automatically accepted as ridiculous because if you apply that same logic to a pedophile, it doesnt hold.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cadisneygirl, post: 2609624, member: 261375"] You need to stop taking such offense over the instant reaction and actually look at the arguments being made in the comparisons. People do this all the time and it is annoying because they are just being intellectually lazy by doing it. You arent classifying people as the same or the action as identical in terms of the kind of harm it does others or society. What they are saying is that they are all sins and all sin tears you away from God. Some sins tear you away much farther and are harder to recover from. I have a hard time believing a JW made the statement God hates anyone and that is obviously a harsh and incinderary statement, but generally the statement is that sin is sin and it is all harmful. Yes, it is all harmful to the individual, but clearly some sins are more harmful to others. It is like when you try to argue how the genetics argument is absolutely ridiculous in the gay rights debate and make the comment that just because a pedophile is born that way doesnt mean what they are doing is acceptable. Instead of actually thinking the logic of the argument through, how many people will freak out and state, oh my gosh did you just compare homosexuals to pedophiles. No, I compared the logic of stating that just because a person is born attracted to the same sex it should be automatically accepted as ridiculous because if you apply that same logic to a pedophile, it doesnt hold. [/QUOTE]

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