RE: Responding to "Homosexuality is wrong, the same way incest is wrong"
August 6, 2015 at 2:45 pm
(August 5, 2015 at 9:26 am)GenericAthiest Wrote: ...
Imo why we don't like homosexuality is because if there where too many homosexuals the human species would be in danger of not being able to carry on our genes....this Is why I think human beings are not open to homosexuality....because its ingrained in us to be against it.
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Prohibitions on homosexuality are purely cultural. The ancient Greeks were totally fine with it. Being bisexual was considered normal.
However, it is prohibited in Christianity, and so it is a value that has been engrained in cultures that have been infected with that pernicious superstition.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
