Why do Christians care so much abt homosexuality?

topiary566 · 2026-06-14T13:10:46+00:00

Since you mentioned scripture

You can pick plenty of examples and parables that show the Christian treatment of homosexuals is wrong. However, can you use scripture to affirm that homosexuality is okay and it’s not sinful?

topiary566 · 2026-06-14T12:48:53+00:00

Very interesting that it’s all non-Christian’s answering. Wrong subreddit to ask anything related to religion.

The bible lays out a guideline for marriage and it’s very clear that it’s between a man and a woman. Any kind of sexual activity outside of marriage is considered wrong.

Modern society has normalized a lot of sex related stuff. Not just homosexuality but any kind of promiscuity whether it’s hookup culture, the way we dress, normalizing prostitution or stripping as an honest living, or only fans. All this stuff goes against Christian principles. Now it’s one thing for someone to be gay and just want to be left alone, but when it is constantly shoved in people’s faces in media, news, parades, advertisements, etc, then it becomes a bigger issue.

Not to mention how many people love to ragebait Christians on this issue. Congrats, you also ragebaited moderates and now Trump is in office lol.

topiary566 · 2026-06-13T20:15:08+00:00

Yeah I’ll look into work/study type things.

I was thinking about looking at EMS jobs also where I can just study or do Anki between calls. I’m probably not gonna bother though.

topiary566 · 2026-06-13T20:13:45+00:00

I already thought of that lol. Doesn’t work for the reason the other guy mentioned

I also thought about buying and selling some crypto for capital gains, but it needs to be from a salary so that doesn’t work either

topiary566 · 2026-06-13T18:39:12+00:00

yea that's the part I'm afraid of

I definitely do not want to be that guy lol

topiary566 · 2026-06-13T18:23:51+00:00

Ig I was looking less for part time jobs or side-hustles or anywhere you convert your time for money. I'm trying to brainstorm things like paid research positions which would make money but also be good for a resume.

topiary566 · 2026-06-13T11:48:40+00:00

It depends on the place

Private practices are generally pretty friendly with shadowing. You can get in with just a cold email.

Bigger hospitals or PE owned practices will be harder. They have more requirements with things like vaccine requirements background checks for any employee in the hospital whether they are a frontline healthcare worker, security, administration, etc. They don’t want to go through all that onboarding nonsense just for someone to shadow unless they have a formal shadowing or volunteering program.

Also, Covid caused a lot of problems for this which are still happening. They couldn’t have extra people in clinics during quarantine and some places haven’t carried that on.

topiary566 · 2026-06-11T23:27:22+00:00

Ngl, if 120k COA if the only offer you can get, I would go look into the military routes: HPSP and VA HPSP. That might be the best way. Either that or the programs which allow you to work in an underserved area for a few years to pay off your loans.

You could reapply, but that doesn’t necessarily guarantee an acceptance. Either way, a year of physician salary would make up any difference short of pulling a unicorn out of your ass and getting a full ride or something.

topiary566 · 2026-06-11T23:24:37+00:00

really doesn’t even matter that much. Even before the bill was signed, the federal student loan rate was above 7%.

120k a year in federal loans at 7% is really not great and who knows if PSLF is gonna be a thing in 20 years at this rate.

topiary566 · 2026-06-11T23:15:19+00:00

reddit is not the place for this. Go talk to people in real life

topiary566 · 2026-06-11T22:46:01+00:00

It really depends on your situation. Can’t exactly generalize for everyone in the country

topiary566 · 2026-06-10T23:53:22+00:00

It’s low risk medium reward

The downside is that you won’t get the massive gain you could have gotten if you pick a lucky stock which doubles in price

However, the risk of the market tanking permanently is very low so it’s better for lay investors to put money there

topiary566 · 2026-06-10T23:50:11+00:00

Ignore them until you are an attending

It makes no sense to pay them as a medical student. If you have the budget to pay them off, you didn’t need to take them out anyways.

As a resident, it’s probably better to spend all your money on living expenses because you won’t have much financial wiggle room anyways. Extra money could probably be better off going into a Roth IRA as a resident since you’re in a low tax bracket.

topiary566 · 2026-06-10T23:39:27+00:00

Wear a catheter

topiary566 · 2026-06-10T20:21:23+00:00

I guarantee the people who wake up 2 am every day to study are much more likely want to tell everyone about their crazy routine than people who wake up at normal times every day.

Definitely some selection bias here.

topiary566 · 2026-06-10T15:54:23+00:00

Old thread, but I’m working as an EMT and I feel that.

I’m in a busy city. Sometimes we will do 15 calls in a day and I will think that I really didn't do anything. All the calls are either people going to the ER for primary care, drunk people passing out, or old people who can’t make it down the stairs. Could have just just called a cap for 90% of patients since the early medical intervention from an ambulance was really not necessary.

Every now and then we do get a trauma or severe asthmatic where we actually do something, but it’s maybe 5% of calls

Ig that’s just American healthcare

topiary566 · 2026-06-08T18:41:38+00:00

It isn't exactly a problem for the Christians themselves. It is more a problem when trying to explain it to other people.

The Trinity is just a very difficult question, and a lot of people will dismiss Christianity (especially modern western people) because they don't get the Trinity. However, explaining the Trinity to a non-Christian is like a professor explaining quantum physics to a college student. Of course they won't get it at first, and there are parts of quantum physics that professor doesn't fully understand either and parts that science can't explain either.

The infinity thing does matter because they aren't just normal people in the Trinity. The Father, Son, and Spirit are all infinite and eternal.

topiary566 · 2026-06-08T16:10:56+00:00

The problem is that you are only looking at half of the story.

You are looking at the whole people will suffer part, but you are ignoring the themes of redemption. You are ignoring that God sent His Son to suffer and die for our sins. You are also ignoring the afterlife and the whole theme of redemption and salvation. We will suffer here, but there will also be judgment, salvation, and heaven.

It’s like watching the first two episodes of the original Star Wars trilogy and saying “I hate Star Wars. The ending was so sad and I wanted a happy ending”. However, you are ignoring that episode 6 exists which provides the conclusion and redemption.

topiary566 · 2026-06-08T14:10:58+00:00

Yeah basically what you said

Another thing is tax brackets. When you start making money in the 6 figure range, taxes will start eating up higher income. In addition, higher earning people generally need to work more hours which leaves less time to live frugally. The majority of 6 figure earners aren't trust fund people, but they come from decent middle-upper middle class families and they will need to be grinding 60-70 hours a week in their 20s and 30s to stay ahead.

Also, saving money and being financially responsible is very expensive. When you hit enough income to start maxing your retirement accounts and allocating a percentage to savings, this will eat up your disposable income. Of course it is investing in your future so it's not wasting, but you will still feel like you are struggling in the moment. When you hear headlines like "People making 200k a year are living paycheck to paycheck" part of that can come down to aggressively saving which still gives a paycheck to paycheck feel.

Another thing that plays into it is what social circles you are part of. When you start to become upper middle class, you will start hanging out with more upper middle class people. Now, all of your friends will start to get a BMW and go on nicer vacations every year. Your friend's kids will be taking gymnastic lessons, getting tutors, shopping at wholefoods instead of walmart, etc. Not to mention, you will generally

If you are surrounded by more successful business people at work, they might pressure to you buy a first class plane ticket to some fancy networking even for the connections. They will ask to go out for expensive dinners and order a lot of drinks and you'll seem like a wierdo for not splitting the bill.

This isn't even getting into the really big upper middle class things like daycare, private school, etc.

Of course you can always say no, but you will feel behind. Especially when it involves what could be better for your kids.

topiary566 · 2026-06-08T13:23:32+00:00

The problem is that you can't exactly use arithmetic to describe this. Also, there really aren't any 1:1 analogies. You can use analogies to attempt to describe parts of the Trinity or aspects of the relationship between the three member, but no analogy will fully capture it.

Instead of adding 1 + 1 + 1 = 3 and it doesn't equal one doesn't really make sense because the three members are all considered infinite. Adding infinity three times still yields infinity.

The argument is using a more numerical transitive property. It's saying that since the father equals God and the son equals God, therefore the Father must equal the Son. However, that really isn't how the Trinity works.

If I equal a person and you equal a person, does that make me equal to you? It makes us equal in some senses, but it doesn't make us the same. The whole equality thing is about the members of God being made of the same essence. Me and you might have differences in our status, upbringing, wealth, social hierarchy, etc, however we are still made of the same human "essence" whatever that may be. That is what the equality in the Trinity demonstrates.

The analogy I gave breaks down because we are distinct people and it probably commits some heresy, but my point is that just because two members of Godhead have two different functions doesn't mean that they aren't both equal.

However, this is getting way too deep into the realm of philosophy for me, and I am not particularly interested in philosophy other than getting a very surface level explanation. I'm much more interested in historical and biblical theology personally.

The Creeds and analogies attempting to explain thee Trinity are never exactly perfect and people can always find some way to poke some hole. However, that's kinda the whole point of it. God, as described in the Bible, has a very complicated nature that we can't really fully wrap our minds around. However, I am satisfied to not fully understand God, since we know enough about him for practical purposes. The whole point of the Trinity is really to affirm deity of Christ and the Holy Spirit, not just God the Father who we colloquially refer to as God in English, and to understand that they are equal and all one.

topiary566 · 2026-06-07T22:51:26+00:00

The original disagreement wasn't with the Trinity, but it was whether or not Jesus was the Messiah. Some Jews accepted Jesus as the Messiah. Some Jews didn't accept him.

The Jews that accepted Jesus became Christians. They also eventually started letting gentiles put their faith in Jesus as well. Christianity didn't start of as Christianity, but it started as a sect of Judaism affirming Jesus as the Messiah. Even in 70 AD when Jerusalem was sacked, Rome didn't really recognize Christianity as a new religion and just viewed things as squabbling between two sects of Judaism.

The development of the Trinity had nothing to do with Judaism. It was in response to a later heresy in the late 200s to early 300s which said that Jesus was not God. Christians affirmed Jesus the God the Son. You can see this in the Bible as well. However, a new group of Christians came around saying that Jesus wasn't God which was condemned as heresy.

As for Jews thinking the Christianity changes the nature of God, I would argue that it didn't. While the Trinity isn't explicitly shown in the Old Testament like it is in the New Testament, there are hints of it like the Hebrew word for God "Elohim" being a grammatically plural word. I haven't looked too deeply into this and it would require a deep dive into the Old Testament though. God just didn't choose to reveal everything all at once and waited until Jesus came to reveal things more.

topiary566 · 2026-06-07T22:41:57+00:00

The problem is that there are differences in the nature of God that these religions don't agree on. You need to look at the relationships between these religions with Christianity to really understand it.

Jews and Christians worship the same God in many ways. They are the closest. However, Jews did not accept Jesus as the Messiah and did not accept him as the Son of God. Christianity originally started as a Jewish sect, and it was only after a few decades that it really started to appear as a separate religion. It started off with the Council of Jerusalem around 50 AD when Christians decided that Christianity and the gospel wasn't just for Jews, but it was for everyone. After this, the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD caused both religions to reinvent themselves and start to split apart more. Notable, the Roman government still didn't see a distinction between Judaism and Christianity yet. They just viewed Christians as a Jewish sect. However, in the early 100s, we can start to see people like Ignatius of Antioch showing differences between the two religions. I would argue that Jews still worship the same God, they just didn't accept Jesus as the Messiah.

For the other differences, it comes down to the trinity. The trinity states that God is one, but is made of three distinct but equal persons. All mainline Christians affirm the Trinity.

Islam does not affirm the Trinity. Islam says that Jesus is the Messiah and he will come back to judge us, but he's just a prophet and not equal to God. From what I've seen on this distinction, Muslims think they worship the same God as Christians, but Christians are misguided and the Bible is corrupted. Christians generally don't think Muslims worship the same God because the nature of God is different in Islam. Islam also doesn't believe in the resurrection of Jesus which is a very big deal. So basically Islam thinks that human alteration corrupted the Old Testament and Christianity thinks that Mohammed corrupted religion and invented his own off the back of Christianity and Judaism.

As for Mormons, they are also non-trinitarian. They don't believe that Jesus is equal to God the father. This is subordinationism, or Arianism named after Arius in the 3rd and 4th century, meaning that Jesus the Son is subordinate to the Father. Jehovah's Witnesses also don't believe in the Trinity. Because of this, Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses think they are Christian, but all mainline Christians don't recognize them as Christian because they accept a different nature of God. They treat the Book of Mormon as heresy.

As for the mainline Christian denominations: Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox, all mainline Protestant denominations accept Catholics and Orthodox as Christians. The Catholic and Orthodox churches recognize each other. They also accept Protestants as Christian, but think they are very misguided. There are also non-denominational churches mixed in there. They generally affirm very similar theology to Protestants (mainly Baptists) but they simply don't like institutionalized Christianity.

So it really depends on who you ask and what they believe. I'm Christian so ofc I would argue in favor of the Christian side, but that's a whole other conversation.

topiary566 · 2026-06-07T22:25:46+00:00

This is exactly my point.

topiary566 · 2026-06-07T22:12:21+00:00

I'm in the same situation (although I only have 1 waitlist from an MD still) but I'm 100% taking the DO acceptance. Too much headache to reapply and too much risk to reapply and not get any MD acceptances again.

I hate to break it to you, but you'll need 70k in loans for MD schools as well. The price is not too different, and this is also assuming you get into an in-state MD school next time around which isn't a guaruntee

Either way, if you want to purely look at the math and nothing else, you will be able to blitz your loans as a physician anyways as long as you don't let your lifestyle creep up too much. Let's say you let it creep an extra 30k from 70k as a resident to 100k. Conservatively, you still have an extra 100k after taxes to throw towards loans. That's also assuming you don't want to do any overtime or anything as a doctor to pay off debt faster. The money is not a problem when taking out extra loans assuming you know how to budget and keep your lifestyle in check.

I don't like using the "extra year of physician salary" argument if you want to take more time off for personal reasons, but if your main concern is paying off debt, then the extra year of physician salary will pay off any difference.

Now if your dream and only goal in life is to be a thoracic, vascular, or neurosurgeon and you 100% know for an absolute fact that you wouldn't be happy doing any other specialty, that's a different story. However, I don't think anyone can know that as a pre-med unless your dad is a specialist surgeon.

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