| Re: Don't open this if you get your feelings hurt - Why does everyone say its OK to be gay?[PR&C] |
Subject: Re: Don't open this if you get your feelings hurt - Why does everyone say its OK to be gay?[PR&C] by bogus on 2011/6/24 6:24:24 I did not say tradition is bad. It's constantly being held under the spot light of change. 300 years ago, what was tradition is now not even remembered. When the Pilgrams arrived, their traditions required that one spent the entire Sunday praying or in church. If not, you risked being kicked out. What about the traditions of the Aztecs? When sacrificing virgins was a Saturday night party affair. I am sure if you suggested to them that this was a bad tradition, all sorts of threats would come your way. In the 1930s, it was tradition to sit around the radio and listen to the show... go to the movies on a Saturday afternoon... Tradition is in constant flux. And people cling to them because they are comfortable and something they can relate to. And people will fight this change to the death because they believe their tradition is better than others. There is something so very personal about them... and change, however frequent, is akin to a paradigm shifting without a clutch. And if you are saying that tradition is the sole provenance of the right, then you have just falling a few steps down the ladder of sanity. So much like the right to peg the left as being evil destroyers of their way of life. Need I remind you that I am a moderate? oh, and I did read your sig... very carefully... and you know something... get ready for this: BOTH SIDES ARE GUILTY OF THIS. And this is the root of our national division. Both think they are so righteous that the other is belittled for not agreeing. It's simple bullshit, disguised as politics. I hate it. |
