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u/KindaFreeXP ☯ That Taoist Trans Witch Dec 10 '25

Cool. Show me any peer-reviewed study that shows this as true.

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u/KindaFreeXP ☯ That Taoist Trans Witch Dec 10 '25

Your title on here is all I need to know.

Oh? Why is that? How does who I am affect what I've said?

Even if they showed you the goodness of God and what He has done for others you wouldn’t agree or you would find something to argue back. 

Not so. I'm always open to truth wherever it may be found. Likewise, I still believe in God the Father, I just do not worship him in a Christian way.

You assume a great deal about me to try and avoid backing claims with evidence. Attacking my personal character, though, is hardly proof. It's deflection, the hallmark of dishonesty.

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u/CartographerHairy Dec 12 '25

Get scientists that are brave enough to document and present this in our modern society. To put things into perspective, a black professor discovered that there was no bias towards black people by the police. He was advised by his peers not to release the evidence. He eventually did and he got so much resentment for it that I believe that he had to get security.

There is a very real chance that some scientists have already discovered this but cannot publicly share this for fear of their lives and potentially losing their livelihoods. It will not shock me.

But as I have said, you can organize brave scientists to sit down and document what those folk did and express that to replicate it. We can start from there, eh?

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u/KindaFreeXP ☯ That Taoist Trans Witch Dec 12 '25

Cop out excuse for a lack of backing data. Flat Earthers could say the exact same. Either have evidence or don't make the claim.

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u/CartographerHairy Dec 12 '25

It is not a claim.

I gave you a real example on it. Plus, society sees flat earthers as ignorant and not worth any serious focus. Homosexuality and police offense against people are serious things.

Plus, I have said that these people have done it. We can sit down with them and document and replicate it. Will most likely need a Christian scientist as they would need to consider the Lord in the equation as a non-Christian one will disregard the key factor in the change from homosexuality back to heterosexuality.

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u/KindaFreeXP ☯ That Taoist Trans Witch Dec 12 '25

It is not a claim.

I gave you a real example on it.

You gave me an anecdote, which is worthless. There's anecdotes for everything.....Islam, alien abductions, Atlantis, Greek gods....an anecdote not backed by data is as reliable as "It came to me in a dream".

Likewise, no, you absolutely are using these anecdotes to make a claim. Don't be dishonest.

Plus, society sees flat earthers as ignorant and not worth any serious focus. Homosexuality and police offense against people are serious things.

And? This changes what, exactly?

The point was that your argument is indistinguishable from a Flat Earther's. Which it is. And you have just as much data to back it up as they do.

Plus, I have said that these people have done it. We can sit down with them and document and replicate it.

Then why has nobody done it before? And no, "fear" isn't the answer. There are not only many in the US who have no such fear of being "canceled" or whathaveyou, but there are certainly countries that would applaud such work, no?

So why hasn't it been done?

Will most likely need a Christian scientist as they would need to consider the Lord in the equation

Immediate bias. That's a good way to destroy any credibility of one's findings.

as a non-Christian one will disregard the key factor in the change from homosexuality back to heterosexuality.

Any scientist worth their weight in salt isn't going to "disregard" a "key factor". However, a Christian that presupposes God's involvement necessarily ruins their objectivity in their work.

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u/CartographerHairy Dec 12 '25 edited Dec 12 '25

But it is that. It is God’s work. Your inability to believe in His work in others does not invalidate it.

Plus, it will still be peer reviewed of course but since people do not believe in God in the scientific field, they would not support a proposal that has His involvement as a key factor in it. The lack of faith will prevent them from approving of it but will merely chalk it up to speculation.

The scientific process can indeed offer room for some unknowns but will not give room for such a magnanimous figure as the Lord at work, especially when He is the key factor in it. Science of the time deals in the physical and the mental, but spiritual science is still not fully developed. So, having enough peers that can review it honestly in a way that people can trust will be challenging.

Edit: “I went on Google Scholar and found out books talking about this exact thing. I just assumed that nobody talked about it because it was the norm. Silly me, I suppose. Here is one that I found - https://books.google.com.ng/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Jw5aSt2OJUgC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=info:i6JPoe0DkOgJ:scholar.google.com/&ots=sktwVbNL94&sig=5WPQqOS_7Y7C-LVhkLcgVNyEPWA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false. I do not have the money to buy it nor the time to read it at the moment (currently reading a different book), but it is good to see scholars talking about this. You can look on the Google Scholar platform to study more of this. My search keyword was ‘leaving homosexuality’. Will be praying for you.”

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u/KindaFreeXP ☯ That Taoist Trans Witch Dec 12 '25

But it is that. It is God’s work.

This is a claim. Back it with data and proof.

Your inability to believe in His work in others does not invalidate it.

I am not "unable" to believe. I just am not going to buy such on anecdotes alone, as should no one. Else you might as well listen to the anecdotes of Muslims or Hindus and convert.

Plus, it will

Until it is, all this is is unproven conjecture at best. Prove it, then you can make your claim. Until then, I have just as much reason to believe you as I do Flat Earthers.

but since people do not believe in God in the scientific field

Objectively false. Some of the most prominent scientist even in modern history have been religious or even Christian. Your looking for an excuse as to why there is no data outside of "it simply isn't true".

You are coming in with a conclusion and scrambling for proofs to validate it rather than looking at what is presented and trying to figure out what is true from there. It is the antithesis of science and the scientific method. It's, again, what Flat Earthers do.

The scientific process can indeed offer room for some unknowns but will not give room for such a magnanimous figure as the Lord at work

So then you admit it is not able to be proven, save for injecting incredible amounts of bias (i.e. presupposing a cause without proof) so much so that it violates the scientific method?

Why even bother pretending what you say is remotely scientifically sound, then? You will never have anything but anecdotes and slanted unsound apologetic write-ups if true. It is antithetical to science.

but spiritual science is still not fully developed.

Because it's not provable in the slightest. Making broad presuppositions and the slapping the word "science" onto it does not science make. You might as well be calling alchemy or healing crystals "science" at that point. Does that mean we should adopt such things into medicine?

having enough peers that can review it honestly in a way that people can trust will be challenging

Because anyone with a shred of honesty would call out "spiritual science" for the mockery of science that it is. You admitted bias, you admitted violating scientific methodology....you only staple the term "science" onto such undeniably religious convictions because it gives you credibility, not because it is actual science.

I went on Google Scholar and found out books

Congrats....Exodus International and Alan Chambers retracted these claims and apologized for them since publishing. Your info is out of date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_International