(Ah, only the bravest commenters want to hide in anonymity!)

DSP (may I call you DSP?),

“The part you have left out regarding Schrodinger’s thought experiment is that the poison is only released if a mechanism operates, which only happens ~ 50% of the time.”

— The point remains, open the box.

“I think we can all agree on the truth that Jesus would want people to discriminate against transgender people. Only loving specific people is pretty much Jesus’s entire thing, right?”

— Wait, are you being sarcastic? Mischaracterizing an argument is an old, tired trick. Jesus would accept a person who believed they were the other sex, but who trusted in his person and work as readily as he would accept me or you for the same reason. This, in spite of our sin.

“What about the possibility that you are all wrong though? That can happen!”

— Absolutely! I could be wrong…and so could you.

Rosemary, thanks for your response. One of my points is that “God” might be perceived differently by different religions, but if there is a God, the parameters and attributes of that God are not variable by perspective – there is a set of true attributes about God (that we may or may not know) and the rest are false – no matter how sure we are that they are true. You’ve posited a God that doesn’t care if He’s considered one of many, or singular, or a cosmic force, or that he has a “one and only Son” or not, etc. That does not describe the God of the Bible.

sp

> Political correctness, especially, for instance, in the form of the “transgender” movement, forces those who follow its absurd rules to twist rationality past its breaking point.

I think we can all agree on the truth that Jesus would want people to discriminate against transgender people. Only loving specific people is pretty much Jesus’s entire thing, right?

> We can’t both be right.

What about the possibility that you are all wrong though? That can happen!

Seems to me that our Heavenly Parents (my faith’s understanding of those who organized intelligences into Their spirit children, and loved and taught us as we progressed to needing a body to complete our purpose (see Jeremiah 1:5), and chose Jesus Christ to help in creating the earth and become our Savior) and our Savior Jesus Christ would answer every prayer seeking the help God can give, no matter what name or even how little the penitent understood or how much they misunderstood about Them.

No doubt in my mind that everyone who seeks good in the world, to be kind to others, to be honest, to serve others, to do their personal best, and to honor God, is living the principles of discipleship of Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father that their Spirit remembers from the pre-existence. And our Heavenly Parents and Savior hear, guide and comfort every single one, whether someone know all or any truth or not. God is not as exclusionary as the author above suggests.

Rosemary N. Palmer can be reached at rnprnp@gmail.com