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Originally Posted by Ohio
I am concerned about anyone who would want to commit suicide.
But, as your habit always is, you put the blame on Christians. Have you considered perhaps their conscience convicted them, and it was not social pressure, but conscience conviction by the Spirit of God, with the goal to bring them to repentance? (John 16.8)
Regret, without repentance and forgiveness, can lead people to despair, depression, and suicide. It is insane to think that there would be no suicide if there was no Bible, no Christians, no laws, no moral norms. But that's the implication you sometimes portray.
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True. To my surprise, more people consider suicide than I thought. Then I joined a suicide hotline. That was not a happy time. I've never had that problem. Maybe you just don't know gays personally well enough to considered it. And I didn't say Christian, I said religious.
Religion of all types are hard on gays. Our sister Serenity, for example, grew up in the LC. Coming out there, or being shoved out, would be such a hard psychological impact, I can't see how suicidal considerations wouldn't come to be a serious resolution.
Is there only enough religion in the world to make us hate each other, but not enough for us the love each other? Do we have to hate a group? Any group? . . . and a new one, when its for whatever reason no longer a hateable group? Is that why our gods hate?
Blacks were a easy group to hate. They're color coded. But that's no longer socially acceptable. Right now, it's gays. And socially caused dejection, of any kind, will bring suicide to the surface of any nervous system.
And pro-lifers should be concerned.