Msmith, IMO you either were looking (very hard) to be offended or you just wanted to stir people up with a good contraversy by making your original post.
DixieGal, I can , have and do take exception to the Golden Rule. Please follow this example;
I'm walking down the street and see a beautiful woman coming toward me. I think to my male heterosexual self that I would really like for her to kiss me. Therefore, following the Golden Rule, I grab her as she goes by and kiss her.
The probably results of my following the Golden Rule like this are:
- She is grossed out by a strange, dirty old man
- She slaps me & files charges against me
- Her husband comes to my house and beats me up
- The police come to my house and arrest me and throw me in jail
- In jail I meet Bubba who, following the Golden Rule, has sex with me
A better rule, IMO is "Do onto others as
they would have you do unto them." Of course that does require more effort and ingenuity.
All this discussion tends to verify some of my youthful thoughts -
That in our USA society, the nonreligious have no right to religious freedom. 