Fury unleashed upon 74-year-old tennis legend over her stance against same-sex marriage

[OldBrownsFan]

@mld-woody said:

What you THINK the Bible says, not what it says.

What about me? I'm an atheist that believes in evolution and thinks the Bible is a book of stories. Am I the work of the devil?

Have you ever read the bible all the way through? God says he made them male and female that is pretty simple, it doesn't matter what I think that says it is obvious what it says.

No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil. And that is what Margaret Court meant when she was referring to transgenders.

[MLD Woody]

A Bible that has been edited, amended, revised and translated countless times. But what are the best bits that say it's "a sin" or something?

Oh shit, I'm being deceived by the devil? That bastard devil with his math and science.

[OldBrownsFan]

@mld-woody said:

A Bible that has been edited, amended, revised and translated countless times. But what are the best bits that say it's "a sin" or something?

Oh shit, I'm being deceived by the devil? That bastard devil with his math and science.

Math and science won't save you.

[MLD Woody]

@oldbrownsfan said:

Math and science won't save you.

They've done a pretty decent job in providing evidence that there's nothing to be saved from

You wouldn't be able to be calling me "deceived by the devil" without them

[MLD Woody]

@westside-steve said:

Children can consent to be transgender?

WSS

I don't know the science behind it. I imagine puberty changes a lot of things.

I think it is wrong to tell a 7 year old boy that likes girl things that they're broken, perverted, the work of the devil and need to be fixed.

I think it is wrong to also tell that 7 year old boy he's transgender and start scheduling hormone surgery.

At the end of the day I don't think it is anything you "consent" to. You're either wired that way our your not. I just don't think that wirings all figured out as a child.

[OldBrownsFan]

@mld-woody said:

They've done a pretty decent job in providing evidence that there's nothing to be saved from

You wouldn't be able to be calling me "deceived by the devil" without them

Death.

Don't take offense we all are deceived by the devil at times, nobody is immune (devil proof).

[Westside Steve]

By the way no I don't think it's the work of satan. Now do you think a child can consent to be a transgender?

WSS

[MLD Woody]

@westside-steve said:

By the way no I don't think it's the work of satan. Now do you think a child can consent to be a transgender?

WSS

I answered right before you posted

[Westside Steve]

@mld-woody said:

Is it the work of the devil?

I don't believe it's the work of the devil. How about you do you think a child can consent to be transgender?

WSS

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Engineers are boring, usually gay, and atheist. Kind of pathetic.

[MLD Woody]

@oldbrownsfan said:

Death.

Don't take offense we all are deceived by the devil at times, nobody is immune (devil proof).

Facts

Don't take offense, your genetics affected the way your brain reacts to and interprets things like prayer and religion, making you more susceptible to believing them. Nobody is immune to their genes.

[OldBrownsFan]

@mld-woody said:

Facts

Don't take offense, your genetics affected the way your brain reacts to and interprets things like prayer and religion, making you more susceptible to believing them. Nobody is immune to their genes.

None taken.

Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

[OldBrownsFan]

@westside-steve said:

I don't believe it's the work of the devil. How about you do you think a child can consent to be transgender?

WSS

In the bible there is something very interesting that happens when Jesus tells his disciples he will go to Jerusalem and be killed. Peter had a great thought and told Jesus just don't go to Jerusalem. Jesus looked at Peter and said "get behind me satan". I read that scripture for many years before it really dawned on me what Jesus was saying. He wasn't calling Peter satan but he saw where satan had influenced Peter to say what he did and that was a revelation to me about how the enemy operates and for me to examine my own thought life. And that is where the battle lies, in our thought life and that is the realm where satan operates.

When Margaret Court talks about transgenders being the work of the devil it is the deception that has taken place in their minds.

[MLD Woody]

@oldbrownsfan said:

None taken.

Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Yeah and if I was making up a religion to control people I'd write down all of the same stuff... Just sayin

[MLD Woody]

Interracial marriage. Also the work of the devil.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Sure thing anti christ.

[OldBrownsFan]

@mld-woody said:

Interracial marriage. Also the work of the devil.

No. But the breakdown of families are and too many children being raised by single parents without fathers:

A few years ago a young, teenaged male, with several others his age, killed nearly a

hundred victims. A few years before, the young killers had witnessed the massacre

of their families. Afterwards, although still very young, they were relocated to

another community with few adults to raise them; importantly, it was absent of older,

mentoring males.

These teenagers are young male African elephants. At a South African park, in the

1990's, three young males attacked and killed 58 white and five black rhinoceroses;

at a second park, young male elephants killed 40 white rhinoceroses.

The problem began to come to light as scientists, sociologists and zoologists tried

desperately to determine the cause of this unprecedented behavior in the young bull

elephants.

Why would they do it? Well, like juvenile delinquent humans, they had grown up

without role models.

The problem stemmed back 20 years to South Africa’s largest conservation area,

Kruger National Park. Kruger had too many elephants. In those days there was no

way to relocate these large adults. So researchers decided to kill the adults and save

the children, who were more easily transported to other parks.

The intentions may have been good but the program created a whole generation of

traumatized orphans thrown together without any adults to teach them how to

behave.

Years later those lonely orphans developed into troubled teen-agers. That’s when the

killings and destruction began.

The solution, they determined was to attempt to bring role models back into the lives

of the young bulls.

They shipped much older bull elephants back into the herds. The older males

immediately established a hierarchy with the herd, settling the young bulls and

modeling strong elephant ethics. The result? Not one rhino death or outbreak of

violence since the introduction of the older males. Young men need fathers, even in

the animal kingdom.

This story illustrates both the need for leaders, and the tragic outcome when

leadership is absent. True, this story was about elephants, not humans. But can any

of us deny the similarity between this situation and our own society?

Specifically, we should take note of the impact created by the absence of adult male

role models – mentors, in this “society”.

We live in a world today, particularly in America, in which fathers are often absent

from the family. Not only is this true in the case of divorce or death, but more and

more, our society validates the concept of a “family unit” without a man present –

without even acknowledging the need for a man in the “mix”.

Admittedly, this is NOT an attack on any wife or mother whose husband has left, or

whose husband was taken by an unexpected “early death”.

But let’s take a moment to look at some of the statistics:

In America:

• 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (U.S.D.H.H.S. Bureau of the

Census)

• 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes

• 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders are from fatherless

homes (Center for Disease Control)

• 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes.

(Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol.14 p. 403-26)

• 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. (National

Principals Association Report on the state of High Schools)

• 70% of juveniles in state operated institutions come from fatherless homes

(U.S. Dept of Justice, Special Report)

• 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in fatherless homes. (Fulton

County Georgia Jail Populations and Texas Dept. of Corrections.)

• Nearly 2 of every 5 children in America do not live with their fathers. (U.S.

News and World Report)

There are:

• 11,268,000 total custodial mothers

• 2,907,000 total custodial fathers

(Current Populations Reports, US Bureau of the Census, Series P-20, No. 458)

What does this mean? Children from fatherless homes are:

• 4.6 times more likely to commit suicide

• 6.6 times more likely to become teenaged mothers (girls)

• 24.3 times more likely to run away

• 15.3 times more likely to have behavioral disorders

• 6.3 times more likely to be in a state-operated institution

• 10.8 times more likely to commit rape

• 6.6 times more likely to drop out of school

• 15.3 times more likely to end up in prison while a teenager

In my opinion, one of the greatest examples of the long-term effects of the

“fatherless family unit” is the prevalence of gangs in the United States.

Think about it: in nearly every case, young men who find their identity in gangs,

grew up in a single-parent home, without a father, or they had a poor, inadequate

relationship with their dad. In either case, these young men found their “male

identity” in the “gang culture”.

You and I can view ourselves as those in need of leadership, or we can rise to the

challenge, to become the leaders for those in need of direction.

Basically, we can be part of the problem, or part of the solution. And, as always,

there is the third group – those spectators who refuse to become involved, but

rather, they choose to watch from a distance, assuming that they are NOT part of

the problem, not realizing that their apathy and lethargy create the atmosphere

which fosters such runaway “out of control” mob mentality. Basically, with the law of

entropy in place, if we aren’t part of the solution, it is very likely that through our

own apathy, we are part of the problem.

But now, a word of encouragement and applause for the men who are rising to the

challenge – mentors – fathers.

God bless the men whose lives serve as an example – a challenge to others,

inspiring them to become the men and women who God destined them to be.

Mark Gorman

[MLD Woody]

I didn't read that while thing, but yes, elephants need Jesus.

You know Christians used the Bible to preach against interracial mixing, right? What makes their interpretation better than yours?

[OldBrownsFan]

@mld-woody said:

I didn't read that while thing, but yes, elephants need Jesus.

You know Christians used the Bible to preach against interracial mixing, right? What makes their interpretation better than yours?

The bible speaks of rightly dividing the word. That is the key.

God ordained the family consisting of a father and a mother to raise children. The story with the elephants is an example of what we see going on today with the breakdown of families and children raised by single parents.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Please quote the bible verse against inter racial 'mixing'.