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How is any of the ideological points in the culture war.. a truth?

What I said is a truth claim of orthodoxy and catholicism.

Any moral system has a set of axioms, you may not agree with them or how they got to be axioms but you can not contest their existence

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No, you left out the bit about it being a claim of catholicism. You left out the relevant context, which was arguing out of bad faith. It would be easy to write it in the context of what a particular religion believes.

I don't see how it was in bad faith considering if you ask google "what moral system claims that oral and anal sex are immoral regardless of the genders involved" it immediately spits out catholicism. I'd say rather, you are arguing in bad faith, framing my reply as hiding something when it is very easy to find the context I had in mind.

No, because you again provided a different framing. “What moral system” is a very different question from “explain how or why this activity is immoral”

That seems a bit.. specific for an axiom, don't you think?

It was the first thing that came to mind that I'm pretty sure would offend over 90% of Americans

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