RE: Objective Morality?
November 8, 2011 at 2:52 pm
(This post was last modified: November 8, 2011 at 2:57 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(November 5, 2011 at 3:51 pm)Godschild Wrote: The right 6% for mole rats. Other species probably up to 85-90%, this is just a guess on my part. Has a homosexual gene been found, if not would not this argument be more toward choice, which for christians it would be any way. I would like to make a statement here, before I became a christian I found that homosexuality was repulsive to me, so as far as not understanding homosexuals and believing the act was not natural came from a nonbelievers point of view. I never claimed to be a biological specialist, and I do not believe you are a Bible scholar or even a Bible student, so you see why I doubt any argument you make from scriptures and this applies to most if not all nonbelievers on this forum.
I used to be repulsed by homosexuality when I was younger, I got that 'squick' feeling when I saw two men kissing, and maybe it's still a bit of a squick for me. So I don't watch men kissing very much. I don't particularly like to see unattractive people getting hot and heavy either, and handle it the same way. I accept that my personal reactions don't justify me treating them differently or condemning them.
Good thing I didn't make an argument from scriptures. You made an argument from biology and it was refuted on scientific grounds. I think the issue on homosexuality in the Bible is more complex than you make it out to be, but I prefer to leave that to someone more learned on the subject than I. I've only read the Bible cover-to-cover twice, some parts, like Genesis (especially the first few chapters) many times, but that hardly makes me a Bible scholar.
(November 6, 2011 at 2:45 pm)Godschild Wrote: Most christians I know have and do read their Bibles often then I know those who are followers.
I don't doubt this has been your experience, some denominations and some churches emphasize Bible reading more than others. Statistically, atheists know more about religion in general than Christians do, and even more about Christianity than most Christians do, but Evangelicals do know more about their own religion than any other group does, including (on average) atheists. I attribute this to a tradition of Bible study among Evangelicals and fundamentalists; but that's my interpretation of the data based on my experience as a Pentecostal (most of my Bible reading was from my Pentecostal days).
