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Originally Posted by foreverwar
It was specifically in reply to your post above which included "If you are going to live your life by a doctrine you can not pick or choose which parts you follow if you do you are being false to your God ".
You seem to be stating all or nothing - I was highlighting that perhaps it isn't so black and white to some people.
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It's a very important point though. Between Stuart C and Zinglebarb they've pretty much managed to highlight the problem with nearly all religious arguments in just a couple of posts.
That's the whole point of these issues like gyms closing that crops up. It is normally the case that
1. Someone in the past has declared x to be important, over time it's not talked about so much and becomes less relevent.
2.At date y it crops up and some subgroup that worries about x gets angry because x has cropped up.
3.The rest of that religion isn't so bothered about it/not affected. The subgroup feels oppressed because with their beliefs they relate it as a primary issue for them and say so.
4. At which point someone comes along and says but the rest of your religion isn't so bothered about it.
5. Subgroup gets offended and says they are picking on their religion. If someone from that religion makes the remark it ends up as an argument within that religion. If it's an outsider then it's christians/atheists/non-whatevers picking on them and not "respecting" their views.
6. The whole argument probably goes on and on without too much of anybody really saying why they think such and such and lack of perspective to see past the issue (gym closing in this case).
As for gym closing I do mean not being able to use facilities as before and I do think that is a shame. In some circumstances it could be a big nuisance.