2007-03-17 13:29:03 · 42 answers · asked by Sonda C 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Things will be as they were in the days long ago at the end times. Why are you surprised? Was it not told you these things would happen? Then do not despair, instead rejoice! Not in the wrong being done, but that scripture is happening before your eyes and that the time draws closer.
2007-03-17 13:41:09 · answer #1 · answered by Stahn 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Why do some religious people insist on cherry-picking scripture to support their prejudice, and then find themselves caught in a spiritual "Catch 22?"
What am I talking about? Well, your issue is, of course, homosexuality, and I am going to digress.
Other religious people beat their drum about abortion, which is not a good thing, but then neither is our teen pregnancy rate.
But rather than chosing a "real world" solution to that - ie. allowing teens access to contraception - they perpetuate fantasies like "abstinence," and the pregnancies and abortions continue, because the religious people could not live with themselves if they allowed the access to contraception.
Thus, they are caught between a spiritual "rock and a hard place," while the teens and society bear the brunt of it all.
I'm just saying, get real. You're not treating the real source of the problem, which, I'm sure you would define as "not enough Jesus in people's lives."
But, you probably also know that this is not going to happen, and so there you are, incapable of fixing the problem.
Fact - too many careless, unwanted pregnancies.
Fact - many careless pregnancies will end in abortion.
Fact - use of contraception would reduce both pregnancies and the resulting abortions.
Problem - teen access to contraception is unacceptable to religious people. They want to solve it with abstinence and more Jesus.
Result - problem continues
2007-03-17 13:44:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because they think it is their natural inclination. Also its currently regarded as very acceptable to the general culture.
There is a whole supernatural realm nearly all people don't know about of course. For instance if a youngster looks at an attractive body of the same sex, a thought or feeling may arise. He doesn't know that not all our thoughts are really our thoughts though. Then he thinks 'I must be gay'. Then having some gay experiences he perhaps feels rewarded and so likes the attention, so thinks 'I definitely am gay', as people usually like what is a rewarding experience. The initial thought may be very early in his life. Later it will look like an innate tendency.
I don't believe the religious idea that gay people can't be christian - it almost seems like they want people to go to hell. Its a serious thought to think that telling such as person that God wouldn't receive them until they changed their lifestyle migh well lead to their damnation, as they left thinking God would never accept them.
I would see the issue as a stronghold in the mind, and most believers have all sorts of strongholds of wrong thinking in their minds (not so obvious). If we develop in our faith the Holy Spirit gradually helps us demolish wrong thinking.
2007-03-17 14:00:14 · answer #3 · answered by Cader and Glyder scrambler 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It isnt morally wrong, its biologically wrong.
I mean, youve never seen a bull running after another bull, have you??? Its just us humans...
Only recently, its been sheep. Sheep are being proclaimed gay.
Is it just a coincidence that the sheep was also the first mammal to be cloned?
I think not.
The point is, after the whole 'Dolly' thing, sheep have decided that the whole 'procreating and sustaining the species' thing isnt their problem anymore, us humans are doing it for them, so they can go ahead and be gay.
HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT MORALLY WRONG. ITS JUST NOT GOING TO BE TOO GOOD FOR US IN THE LONG RUN. AT LEAST NOT TILL THEYVE TOUCHED THE WHOLE CLONING BUSINESS UP A HELL OF A LOT.
2007-03-17 21:54:24 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm Christian, and I have many gay friends, and a few gay Christian friends. Our job as Christians is to be open, welcoming, and accepting to everyone, and to show a good example. Whether or not it is morally wrong to practice homosexuality should be left between that individual, and God. I'm not saying that it is wrong to express your opinions and beliefs about what is right, but don't do it in a preachy way. That will only push people away, and make them angry. Just be open to discussion. You can tell someone that you believe that homosexuality is "morally wrong," as long as you are open to hearing them tell you why they think that it is right.
2007-03-17 13:44:06 · answer #5 · answered by mars 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Even if it was, which I don't accept, so what? That does not give you the right to legislate against it anymore than you can legislate against ( non-fraudulent) lying, belief in false gods, swearing, etc. Something has to be non-only immoral but actually harmful to a non-consenting party to justify interfearing with it. Even then it is often impermissable ( for example lying might hurt a non-consenting party, but unless it rises to the level of fraud, free speech trumps that. A long string of court cases from Griswald v Connecticut to Lawrence v. Texas says that what people do with their genitals in the privacy of their home is no ones bussiness but their own.
2007-03-17 13:45:20 · answer #6 · answered by Zarathustra 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because it's not morally wrong. What two consenting people do behind closed doors, and does not hurt anyone in any way, shape, or form, is not morally wrong. It's not any more wrong than consensual sex between two people of different sexes. You only think it's morally wrong because your bigoted religion says it's wrong. Well, your religion also condones slavery, it condones BEATING slaves, (as long as you don't kill them) it condones killing babies, it condones sexism, and it condones a whole host of revolting, disgusting things that would take up much too much room to type out here. If you don't agree that holding and beating slaves is OK, then you are already acknowledging that you don't need to believe EVERY SINGLE WORD of the Bible. It really wouldn't be that big of a stretch to say that what someone does in the privacy of their own bedrooms, and doesn't affect YOU, isn't a big deal, and to just let them live their lives. Why don't you pick something IMPORTANT to make an issue out of? (Like starving children or the genocide in Darfur) Do something to make a POSITIVE change in this world rather than contribute to the pointless hate and intolerance that we're already overflowing with.
2007-03-17 13:41:04 · answer #7 · answered by Jess H 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
People have free will and the right to exercise it. Everyone also has the right to make up their own mind about sexual preferences. It is only the Bible (God's Word) that condemns it and therefore anyone professing to believe in the Bible and to be a Christian would also condemn homosexuality. That however does not mean to hate the person--- only the act.
My question would have been - - -
How can persons who profess to be Christians engage in and condone acts and attitudes that are completely against all they profess to believe in???
2007-03-17 13:57:22 · answer #8 · answered by sixfoothigh 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i know! homosexuality is morally wrong. Love is just the work of satan. I mean even animals are homosexual, and they aren't bound by the morals and beliefs of christianity.
I think we should kill all animals that are gay.
As well as humans.
Because they are stupid for not understanding.
Maybe once they're all gone, that'll teach animals and humans not to love freely.
Bad gays! Bad!!
2007-03-17 13:47:25 · answer #9 · answered by Tania La Güera 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
it is only morally wrong to christians to the people in the real world do not mind at all thay do not harm anyone thay are not a threat the christians are the ones will the problem thay are bigoted
2007-03-17 13:34:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋