I thought you said it wasn't?
My point still stands. Isn't divorce a bigger blow against the sanctity of marriage than gay marriage is? Isn't burning a house down worse than calling a garage a house?
I said it wasn't in the same way. That is, while divorce happens way too much in today's society, you'll still have people on both sides of the fence admitting it's an ugly thing to deal with. And again, you don't have a massive movement pushing for it to be legal, which brings me to the point (again) where I say that divorce is legal for a reason, and that there is an exception to the rule for divorce, where no such exception exists for homosexuality. As for which is "more" wrong and why, that's something you'll have to take up with God, I suppose. But even if divorce is a much worse insult to marriage, it doesn't mean we can afford to ignore the debate regarding homosexuality.
We can keep calling everything into question whether God exists or not. The only difference is that if God does exist, you can bring authority into it, but then all it takes to equalize them is to question authority. Where does God get his authority? Why should I respect his authority?
Because it would be wrong not to. If that reason isn't good enough - if something's being inherently right isn't good enough reason to do it - then I wonder if any reason
is. I dunno, I guess that reason is plain as day to me whereas I'm still struggling to find a logical reason to take "moral" action from an atheistic standpoint unless it would somehow benefit me.
Anyway. If you're telling me that the only reason that you ever hold a door open for someone on your way out of the gas station, that the only reason you ever save the last slice of cake for your friend even when you really want to take it and they wouldn't mind if you did, that the only reason you ever help somebody who looks lost, is because you're offered a reward when you die... that's a miserable, pitiable life.
Don't remember saying anything - at all - about being offered a reward (mind you, saying Heaven is a reward is like saying the Grand Canyon is a crack in the ground, and to be in the presence of God for all eternity is certainly good enough incentive for me). What I said was, I follow God's law because it's
right. Not because of a threat, or because of a bribe, but because that's what's right.
On the other hand, if Christian mythology is real, I'm already going to Hell not because I'm a bad person, but simply because I don't believe in God. If there is a God and He doesn't like that I'm good to people because they're people like me and not because I believe something terrible will happen if I don't, or if He creates gay people as target practice that I am expected to automatically find repulsive or try to change, He can suck my mortal dick. Through fire and brimstone I will not forsake my fellow human even if paradise awaits me if I do.
Take that, God. I'm a nicer guy than you.
No, it's pretty much that you're a bad person. Like, not "you" specifically, but "you" generally.
Everyone is a bad person by default. It's just that not believing in God coincides with not recognizing one's own sinful nature (something about correlation and causation here). You're making God out to be some sort of merciless pagan deity who just takes potshots at people and sends everyone to Hell for the lulz, when if you read the Bible you know that God gave us fair warning to not disobey. You can't take an action for which you know the consequences and then complain the consequences aren't fair. I hardly think God is a jerk for doing exactly what he said he would and then even being so merciful as to let us off the hook for confessing what we did wrong and repenting.
He likes that you're good to people, and he likes that you're selflessly good to people, but that doesn't mean He expects you to be unconditionally supportive of everything they do. Are you being bad to someone if you see them doing something evil and tell them "that's not cool"? Being good to people doesn't mean that you approve of their actions if their actions are wrong. Rather, if you really love someone, then you're going to try to help them see where they're wrong if they're wrong. You seem to be under the impression that the only choices are "it's all good, let homosexuals marry whomever they want" and "kill all dem eeeevil gays."
Why did God create homosexuals? This is really getting to the age-old problem of evil. Why did God make sin if he's not okay with it, right? Well, I guess what I usually answer with is "He made us knowing we would sin, but He's not the one who committed the sin, so we're still the ones to blame." He didn't create gay people for "target practice," but why He did create them is irrelevant because it's what we do now that matters.
(Just a thought - maybe He made them that way so they could learn to overcome temptation. If you've ever had something sucky happen to you and conquered it then you know where I'm coming from - overcoming a situation like that makes you a better person for the experience.)
Hah... I guess it isn't, if you turn a blind eye to how sexuality is linked more to biology than environment
I'm honestly not sure why this matters in relation to Weegee's question.