Erick(sub male)
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4 years ago •
Feb 11, 2020
4 years ago •
Feb 11, 2020
Dear Dear & Dear djinni--
Very well. Sorry to have appeared "offensive" or "rude." (Or, Lord knows, "transphobic." There are few ways in our contemporary culture that a person can be more vehemently damned than by the accusation of "transphobia.")
I am aware that at this precise moment in our cultural history, it is considered just as heretical to say that Bruce Jenner, for example, is NOT actually a woman as it was, until fairly recently, to say that the universe did NOT actually begin somewhere around the Iron Age in an enchanted orchard in Mesopotamia, with a magic Apple and a magic Snake, and so forth and so on. These kinds of beliefs, concerned as they are with emotionally important subjects, often acquire the status of Sacred Doctrine no matter how much or how little they might have to do with common sense. Or reality.
But it's not my wish to be hateful, or even subversive. I honestly would like to know the truth about these things. I've already said so very clearly in another response I posted to another recent question about Sado-Masochism In The Modern Christian Home.
And although I haven't previously posted any opinions about transsexualism, I'd honestly like to know the truth about that subject too.
But in the long run, truth seldom has much to do with religious or political orthodoxy. Just consider:
A few short decades ago, the orthodox view was that you were born either "gay" or "straight" (a rather offensive label, by the way, even sillier than "gay"). It was represented to be a difference like the one between blue-eyed people and brown-eyed people. Anyone who questioned this idea was denounced as "Homophobic."
Then the ideology began to creep sideways a little bit, like the official edicts in Orwell's "Animal Farm." Soon, it was deemed possible to be born "Bi." But you were still BORN that way. Then some other letters and options were added to the deterministic menu. And now, it's officially considered possible to be "Fluid." In other words, you can make up your own mind. Which is exactly what the supposedly "Phobic" people were saying all along.
I predict that in a few years something similar is going to happen with the Transsexualism orthodoxy. Already we see increasing numbers of news stories about "transgender" people who "transitioned," but then later got tired of being the gender they angrily insisted they "really" were, and changed back to their "birth gender." (Which is now called "De-Transitioning.")
OK. Whatever. I would just like to see a consensus on the issue, and preferably something that has to do with good sense. Because regardless of what CNN or MS-NBC will tell you, most people simply do not believe that Fred Flintstone becomes Wilma whenever he puts on her clothes. Any more than they believe that the wild-eyed and rather preposterous Harvard Law Professor now running for President should be entitled to the special benefits of being a Cherokee Injun simply because she says she has a doggone powerful FEELING that she's a Cherokee Injun.
And another thing I must emphasize: When I said that Pat Robertson, who is really and truly one of the most influential Christians in the world, said homosexuals will burn in hell but transsexuals will not, I wasn't humorously inventing that. IT'S REALLY WHAT HE SAID. So, if you think that's nutty in some way, you should take it up with HIM.
Peace!
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