It's rare nowadays to find anyone in this site that gives Christianity a fair assessment. There was a time were I'd read good words which had to be written by true Christians, but not anymore. They've left this place and it gets angrier by the year for it.
Jesus disappointed many once it became clear he wasn't there to score a political victory. A true Christian is rejected by militants for refusing to twist Christ’s whip at the temple into a rationalization for war and hatred. The true meaning of loving one's enemies must not be diluted. To follow Jesus is to defy wordly common sense and be crucified, metaphorically or not. This is the only path to changing hearts and minds, a goal of real value, unlike concerns of "losing civilization" or earning "respect."
They're surprisingly effective, actually. A few decades of "Love is love" and we've reached the point of drag kids doing stripteases on stage to a gay audience ("desmond is amazing"), not to mention HRT and sexual surgeries on minors. If the madness doesn't end, actual pedophilia will be normalized before the century is out.
You're not wrong. I was just arguing against homosexuality since some people genuinely believe there's nothing wrong about gay fornication.
On the other hand, transgenderism doesn't really need any arguments against it. Not a single person in the world believes a man can become a woman.
At least when it comes to anime/manga, this is how it went:
One day, a mangaka made the demons misunderstood good guys, because it's a twist. Pacifist orc chef? What an original idea! We need an institutional enemy that acts inside a kingdom: oh, a church, of course.
Then, these things became tired tropes out of the sheer mediocrity that humanity averages at.
Christians believe that creation and humans were made good according to God's good will. Therefore, our reason is good and we're meant to use it. The application of our reason on God's creation allows us to discover obvious inherent laws on which universal ethical grounds can be derived.
No pious Christian will approve of homosexuality, which goes against natural law.
I'm originally from Peru and there it works similarly. In Peru, large businesses like mall chains create their own card for points/discounts which they slowly transition into financing services with predatory interest and eventually grow into their own minibank. Old large banks stay out of that kind of predation.
Yes. Large, formal banks and credit unions don't engage in debt traps. Here in Spain they'll reject loans to the kind of people who will only pay interest perpetually.
The predatory lending you're talking about is offered by other risk takers, usually small financial loan companies.
I doubt it would make thing worse. It's true that underlying issues should be addressed.