"sissies" bump!
spot on. i think it's great to expose children to both sides, but much easier for females. i don't think i'd encourage my son to watch barbie, but encouraaging my daughter to watch G.I.Joe (my #1 FAV) is ok. i just wish society would accept a person for whomever they are/become. i know kids will be kids, but they get the biases (to make fun of others) from parents. no parents are perfect, so that can never happen. socialistic, and liberal ideaology think you can force it upon people by government control, but people will be who they are regardless of what the mandate from the iron fist is.
fortunately, now, when people get older, this generation is much more accepting of who people are. i am a Christian, but i don't force that on anyone. i have many beliefs/morals that come straight frrom the Bible. i do not think anything i believe should be forced on anyone else & vice cersa. i'm not 'for' gay marriages (per se, as it sounded like that's what i was alluding to in the child rearing), but i am not a judge. i don't know if they are born that way. it doesn't matter to me as a person OR a Christian (which is one & the same to me). God created everyone with free will. it is a big deal in His Word. i hate when religious groups use 1Bible verse to condemn people (from a new living standard lo9ving blah blah version, which is so far removed from what the actual transcripts are, it's useless almost). ALL sins can be forgiven. if they covet, they are no different from someone who has homosexual sex (in Biblical terms). the actual Bible contradicts 80% of the mainstream religion claiming to be Christian in present day. 1611 KJV is closest an english reading person can get to manuscripts w/o some effort, but a Strong's Concordance & a KJV Bible can trace EVERY single word back to it's Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic manuscripts. people need to stop judging like they are God. no one knows what the final judgement entails. flesh is sin, so the idea is to point out that we all need Christ's Salvation, not that, eeeewwww your a butt pirate & i'm not so you're going to hell. the only hell ever mentioned to go on longer than the instant the soul disintigrates is the flame that satan & his demons will be put in. the whole world didn't come from Adam & Eve, as they were created AFTER God rested on the 7th day, and mankind (every race) was created on the 6th day. one can even understand that from a normal KJV Bible. the Bible focuses on Adam & Eve, as that is the Geneology of Jesus Christ (umbilical cord to umbilical cord), that God tells satan, their descendants will crush his head. there is no 'rapture'. not in the bible, and the verses they get it from even say it happens at the LAST TRUMP (in revalation, which is after the great tribulation period that they all want to escape). sorry, but i get agrivated that i get lumped in with all these loonies that use God as a cash register to get money from good hearted people that are lied to. i thought about deleting this, but i spent too much typing time, lol. so sorry it's in your thread. i will move it to mine if you wish.
anyway. everyone is different. God made everyone different. God is LOVE, and loves everyone. He wants ALL to come to repentance & salvation, and gives them another chance in the 1000 years that Christ reigns on earth (millenium some call it). i hate that everyone has some reason that people that aren't identical are evil. we have had tons of idots in US history alone, like wiping out the Native Americans, slavery, etc, etc, etc. different is good. you don't learn anything if everyone is the same (or it eventually becomes stagnant). other cultures, other sexes, other sexual prefernces, other religions, other anything is GREAT. people fear change, but on the 6th day (after God created everything except the human bloodline for Christ), God looked at His creation, and it was GOOD. not only the a certain part, but in it's entirety (also, 1 day with man is equal to 1000 years to God, and those 6 days [whether it be 6 days to God or man] were not the beginning of time. the manuscripts say the earth "BECAME without form, and void" in Genesis 1:2. it was not created that way. the Bible never says how old the earth is, but most belive it's billions of years old, and God's Word does not dispute that).
/rant. very sorry if this offends you, and i will move it if you want. no biggie. i just hate discrimination of any type, and people using the Bible to justify theirs just irks me so badly.