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Re: Orange Is the New Black actress vs. Homophobic moron preacher on uptown (M) train |
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Posted by Dyre Dan on Thu Nov 13 07:34:39 2014, in response to Re: Orange Is the New Black actress vs. Homophobic moron preacher on uptown (M) train, posted by Nilet on Wed Nov 12 11:06:03 2014. Wow, this thread is still going on. Discussions about morality and theology hardly belong here, but no one seems to have complained about that, so I won't either. It is an interesting discussion, although surely off-topic.Getting back to how this started: No, I don't think there is anything "immoral" about consensual sex between two men, it is merely something distasteful to most people. That seems to be a reaction common to people in all cultures, so you could say it is part of human nature. And whatever is part of our intrinsic nature can be said, in a manner of speaking, to have been ordained by God. Not a God who writes "commandments" into holy texts that become the scriptures of particular religions - clearly all those texts were written by human beings. But a God who is a metaphorical personification of the creative power of the universe, a power which gave rise to our existence. I do feel it can be a useful metaphor to personify that power as having a will or desires, even though I don't literally believe that there is a separate conscious being who literally created everything by an act of "His" will. So I have little patience either for religious literalists who point to some obscure passages in the Bible as evidence of "God's will", nor for aggressive atheists who think it is somehow a sign of intelligence to ridicule the beliefs of others by calling God an "imaginary friend" or comparable to a "Spaghetti Monster", etc. |
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