RE: Reasoning showing homosexuality is evil.
October 22, 2017 at 7:46 am
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2017 at 7:50 am by WinterHold.)
(October 22, 2017 at 5:48 am)emjay Wrote:Quote:The school I was in was male only type (Wahhabi-governed), sexuality was a matter of watching porn at home which includes women, and observing feminine boys at school. Which proves the "simultaneous routes" you mentioned and I believe in; and think that both roads meet at "Transexuals"; having both male and female organs.
Guys in my school were more daring to harass other boys sexually. It was when I saw students touching the butts of each other during the prayer time; is when I suspected something fishy about Sunni Islam...
I agree on keeping it to yourself; and getting over the self-righteous phase. I think homosexuality is being picked on because gays are a minority; and humans scored well in the minority-exploiting scale with racism against skin color, xenophobia and other reasons. That's why I keep stressing on this verse from the Quran:
Ancients never had our science and discoveries of the effects of certain sexual actions on the brain.
It's ignorance; not evil. And lots of people fall to ignorance.
I see what you're saying but the problem with that is that the majority of people in your religion don't see it that way. And arguably... and I'm not saying it's necessarily the case with you but it could be... the reason you interpret it that way could have a lot to do with your sexuality. Just as I also grew up trying to make sense of the Bible in relation to my sexuality and making similar liberal arguments about what it said... which ultimately didn't take and caused a lot of cognitive dissonance. But your contemporaries have no such impetus/bias to see it that way, and in fact their bias is the complete opposite (ie homophobic), so I don't see anything changing any time soon in the way it is generally viewed by Muslims.
Lots of Muslims, and by lots I mean lots; follow bigoted opinions represented in the two main sects composing the majority: Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam.
Despite the severe disasters these terminologies brought upon Muslims; Muslims followed them still.
There are lots and lots of hypocrite bigots who practice sodomy, then go criticize gays. The Muslim society is crawling with people like this: it's a no no in public; but from below and in secret, it's totally fine.
For me, it wasn't sexuality to be honest that made me part ways with the Islamic sects. Sexuality was just a part of the dilemma which included politics, history, women rights, and so many other things.
The "word of God" shouldn't break in front of reason. And I must be 100% fair to compare my own view and understanding, to the actual meaning the author of the book I'm using was meaning; and to compare other views against all of that.
I don't think the majority of Muslims are doing so; so yep; nothing is changing soon if they kept on practicing the same belief.
The Bible is very different in structure from the Quran; that's all I can say about the book.