Like any rational person knows, you do not argue logic against religious people. You argue religion.But what if that mistake will lead to death, or something worse?
One of my cousins (she was 17 or 18 at the time) had this great opportunity to travel overseas with this group of girls for some sort of modelling deal, but her mom wouldn't let her go because the mom thought it sounded like a scam.
My cousin was really pissed off, and in the end my aunt called the police and told them about the whole deal.
It turned out it really was a scam, and the woman who was organizing it all would likely have sold them into prostitution (the trip was to somewhere in Asia, not sure exactly).
There's no question that the mom did the right thing. She used her judgement and stopped her daughter from unquestionably fucking up her entire life.
And so back to Maya's dad's intentions. If you knew there was a Hell (like these religious people "know" there is), and your child was going there because of something they were doing, would you let them go to Hell?
Of course rational people will argue, how can you be so sure there's a hell? How can you be sure any of your religious beliefs are true, meaning so many millions and millions of other contradicting beliefs that other people hold are false? But these people who believe this stuff believe it with all of their existence. It must kill them inside to believe a loved one is going to hell...
Anyway, getting a little too intense... So, Sage's or Jill's tits. Wasn't there a discussion as to whose were the biggest? Any analysis on that yet?![]()
All 3 of the abrahamic religions make one point clear. DAMN well clear. God gave free will to humans, and even God cannot interfere with that after their creation. No buts, no ifs. In fact, why all big 3 recognizes magic being real and completely outlaw the use of it ( as stupid as it sounds) is that it actually might interfere with free will.
So, any conversion-therapy-advocate Christian, any stone-the-gay Muslim or any excommunicate-the-trans Jew will be committing the highest of all crimes in all those religions, aka. idolatry, called şirk in arabic. It's the act of putting oneself on the same level as God, or acting as if you know the intent of God.
Entire Roman Catholic Church, thousand year of Muslim caliphates and entire congregations of Jewish faith are extremely guilty of this. And in fact, all 3 try to hide the fact that they commit mass idolatry on a daily basis.
So, no, Maya's dad isn't being a good dad. He's going against the tenets of his own faith.
Side note: If you want to defend LGBT+ people against religious zealots, use their own religion against them. 99.99% of them never even read their own holy books.