tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post6169694297427358124..comments2024-02-21T03:20:21.898-08:00Comments on An Inch At A Time: Reflections on the Journey: Let's hear it for family values!SUSAN RUSSELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795717638621668638noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-23631983951994568172009-06-12T13:29:33.638-07:002009-06-12T13:29:33.638-07:00In TEC, (I would hope!) we use the Oxford English ...In TEC, (I would hope!) we use the Oxford English Dictionary! We're Anglicans, after all! ;-)<br /><br />The Oxford English Dictionary has THIS as its FIRST entry under "anthropomorphism."<br /><br /><i>Attribution of human form or character. a. Ascription of a human form and attributes to the Deity.</i><br /><br />Further down in the entry, the following quote from Pusey WilliamKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14545955266846478775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-66605254596850270832009-06-12T11:47:01.437-07:002009-06-12T11:47:01.437-07:00Xenophanes - "If horses had Gods, they would ...Xenophanes - "If horses had Gods, they would look like horses."uffda51https://www.blogger.com/profile/11395027089123943228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-64013940832307814032009-06-11T20:24:51.084-07:002009-06-11T20:24:51.084-07:00Is there some alternative-dictionary that you use ...Is there some alternative-dictionary that you use at TEC?<br /><br />God the Father is not an object, he is a Person. <br /><br />def: anthropomorphism -- 'The describing of human motivation and characteristics to Inanimate Objects, Animals or Natural Phenomenon' -- (i.e., weather, storms, floods, earthquakes.)<br /><br />Which dictionary says... 'especially a god' in the LGMarshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04902418111182358582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-92110118494613548732009-06-11T13:59:49.295-07:002009-06-11T13:59:49.295-07:00"Anthropomorphism is thoroughly Un-Biblical&q..."Anthropomorphism is thoroughly Un-Biblical"???????????<br /><br />REALLY!!!!<br /><br />Then ... just for STARTERS ... where does "God the Father" fit in?SUSAN RUSSELLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01795717638621668638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-14815613604083926872009-06-11T13:23:31.801-07:002009-06-11T13:23:31.801-07:00“Anthropomorphism is thoroughly Un-Biblical.”
Ant...“Anthropomorphism is thoroughly Un-Biblical.”<br /><br />Anthropomorphism - the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits.<br /><br />Daniel, Chapter 7, verse 9<br /><br />As I looked,<br /> thrones were set in place,<br /> and the Ancient of Days took his seat.<br /> His clothing was as white as snow;<br /> the hair of his head was white uffda51https://www.blogger.com/profile/11395027089123943228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-10832828567072600152009-06-09T20:06:21.858-07:002009-06-09T20:06:21.858-07:00News Flash -- there is no such thing as a gay male...News Flash -- there is no such thing as a gay male penguin couple. Anthropomorphism is thoroughly Un-Biblical. Cute story though. By the way, God instructs us to go AGAINST our (sin) nature, not WITH it.<br /><br />Also....lets talk about something important. Salvation! Available to Human Beings (only). Repent & Believe. John 3:16.LGMarshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04902418111182358582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-38402134086555835232009-06-09T18:09:20.493-07:002009-06-09T18:09:20.493-07:00Actually, Susan, you are right. Most people do ex...Actually, Susan, you are right. Most people do experience sexuality on a continuum, not on a binary, and it is much more fluid. Complex traits generally are, well, cmplex.<br /><br />Same thing for handedness, actually, A few people are actually ambidextrous, most people can do a few tasks with the "unfavored" task, relatively few are strictly one way or the other.<br /><br />I agree IThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09605163506396013904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-34015403919388600842009-06-09T17:56:46.460-07:002009-06-09T17:56:46.460-07:00Or maybe we don't know as much as we think we ...Or maybe we don't know as much as we think we do about sexuality in general. Maybe it's much more of a continuum than anyone on EITHER side of the "gay/straight" divide wants to admit. <br /><br />Maybe some people are "wired" gay and some people are "wired" straight and MOST people are "wired" somewhere in the middle. <br /><br />And maybe what SUSAN RUSSELLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01795717638621668638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-83707951923325100882009-06-09T17:52:29.092-07:002009-06-09T17:52:29.092-07:00RonF, there is a substantial scholarship on same-s...RonF, there is a substantial scholarship on same-sex behavior in a very wide variety of animals in their natural environment. Like it or not, it is a "normal" variant of creatures with complex behaviors. Minority behavior, to be sure but it certainly occurs widely.<br /><br />Indeed, in domestic sheep, something like 5-8% of rams exclusively mount other rams. Another similar number IThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09605163506396013904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-10148028552485112272009-06-09T16:31:26.021-07:002009-06-09T16:31:26.021-07:00This is kinda cute too and just as natural... in t...This is kinda cute too and just as natural... in the continuing story of sexual orientation in penguins. What could we learn from it...?<br /><br />http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-84.html<br /><br />That gay male penguin relationships can be as impermanent as those of male humans?<br /><br />That there is such thing as "ex"-gay penguins...?<br /><br />There are so many seraphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13740813124721681934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-67752294417920904182009-06-09T15:24:47.933-07:002009-06-09T15:24:47.933-07:00Oh for heaven's sake ... lighten up! It's ...Oh for heaven's sake ... lighten up! It's a cute, heartwarming story about two male penguins who are mates and who are providing nurture for an egg the biological parents kicked out of the nest. <br /><br />A great example that even in the "animal kingdom" there are family values that transcend heterosexuality ... AND a rebuttal to the argument that homosexual erotic and SUSAN RUSSELLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01795717638621668638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-54689258631655037112009-06-09T14:37:09.808-07:002009-06-09T14:37:09.808-07:00You are presenting behavior by two animals confine...You are presenting behavior by two animals confined in a zoo and potentiated by human intervention (taking the egg away from it's natural parents and giving it to them) as natural? That's a rather odd viewpoint and is more an argument for the other side.RonFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13533867151466876449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-65916109258857026512009-06-09T10:27:14.896-07:002009-06-09T10:27:14.896-07:00And Tango Makes Three (http://en.wikipedia.org/wi...<i>And Tango Makes Three</i> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Tango_Makes_Three), by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, illustrated by Henry Cole, is the delightful (true) story of chinstrap penguins, Roy and Silo, who were given an egg to hatch after incubating a rock. The book itself is horribly 'controversial' and a number of public school libraries of either banned it or placed Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05442831427924875375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-91335086474826668732009-06-09T09:49:53.749-07:002009-06-09T09:49:53.749-07:00Don't we?
;=)Don't we?<br /><br /> ;=)Göran Koch-Swahnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00925549945659350649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-78426358503272213412009-06-09T09:14:37.297-07:002009-06-09T09:14:37.297-07:00The point is that the behavior "ain't no ...The point is that the behavior "ain't no new-fangled" thing created by humans -- it exists and has existed -- from the beginnings of time probably. You see, it is true: God doesn't create junk! "Birds do it, bees do it," -- can't remember any more lyrics until "Let's do it; let's fall in love." Now, that's what it is about -- falling in BJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08284900297714154016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-44285830249765886762009-06-09T06:50:33.716-07:002009-06-09T06:50:33.716-07:00I don't get this. How can animal behavior be ...I don't get this. How can animal behavior be labeled like human behavior? Animals aren't "gay," "straight," or "bisexual," they just do what they've always done.Mark Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01258953474190833657noreply@blogger.com