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  • Marriage is the sacred bond between a husband and wife which may allow for the biological production of children, as God created people male or female “in the image of God”

    It’s therefore impossible for two people of the same gender to marry as it is outside of the divinely constituted institution of marriage, and the encyclical discusses at length the beauty of the matrimonial union

    Higher-ups in the Church would therefore of course not sanction unnatural unions and would insist upon relationships that satisfy the mutual longing of man and woman





















  • I got a lot of downvotes on this on lemmyworld but I may be speaking from a different perspective of already assuming that there are certain physical or scientific factors involved… it just doesn’t seem like enough to explain all the obesity we see in the world

    also there seems to be some confusion, either all the factors are known for losing weight and people won’t do it (which is some kind of choice or spiritual issue), or we don’t know what all the factors are and you couldn’t in theory rule out something extra-scientific or there is more to the story… which is what we should discuss (I could see people disagreeing with me and having a good discussion about it but the downvotes seem like a little much)









  • say I’m a flat earther, I say you look at the oceans and they’re flat, and you look at water and would expect it to just spill over (how can it be flat on a round earth? it makes no sense how the waters look on a round earth…)

    or say you acknowledge that the composite images of the “Blue Marble” view of the earth have been faked: https://qz.com/192700/the-guy-who-created-iphones-earth-image-explains-why-he-needed-to-fake-it

    how do we know the earth is the shape it is then if people are not honestly giving photographic evidence of its shape?

    Or say with GPS, I say that could be done on the land, there is no need to rely on satellites. Then how do we need to believe in satellites orbiting the earth, when land operations are sufficient for explaining them?

    Or say someone says they don’t know why people are lying about the earth being flat, when we know it is. What are they trying to hide by lying about its obvious flat shape?

    and so on, to give you an idea of how a conversation might go