RE: "Jesus would rather kill, not marry, gay people" - Franklin Graham
July 13, 2018 at 4:22 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2018 at 4:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 13, 2018 at 3:56 pm)SteveII Wrote: IMO, Christian belief on homosexuality has nothing to do with deriving some moral reasoning from "gay" factors/consequences/outcomes. I think it is a category error to think so. Instead, it is based on Divine Command Theory: God commanded it and that is a sufficient source of moral obligation. There is nothing left to argue about. Attempting to develop some sort of Christian natural moral argument is unnecessary and unconvincing at best. Atheists that demand an argument and in the absence of one shout "bigot" don't understand this.
"Magic man said so" isn;t a moral reason, argument, or justification. Its just an order. Many orders are immoral. You may refuse to engage in the discussion, but that doesn;t mean that there isn;t anything to discuss.
As I said before..you are comfortable in your bigotry because you imagine your god to be similarly bigoted. Nevertheless, it makes you uneasy to be accurately classified for what you are. A case example of dissonance.
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