RE: forbidding people to love each other
July 1, 2021 at 10:42 am
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2021 at 10:43 am by vulcanlogician.)
The thing about this essay is that it shows just how slimy WLC is.
I've listened to entire lectures from this guy... philosophy lectures, not apologetics or debate. In these, he well demonstrates that he can do critical thinking.
He knows better than to cite Leviticus as reasoning for adopting a particular attitude toward homosexual acts. And he knows that the vast majority of Christians don't even care about what the Bible says... they just want their bigotry excused.
He knows that the conditions faced by gays have no direct causal relation to homosexual behavior itself. Most of it is causally related to society. He knows this. And he knows how to separate things like promiscuity from homosexuality... ie. he knows how to consider non promiscuous homosexuals... but he doesn't.
It's worse that he knows all this stuff. Because I believe that the ignorance of most Christians stems from a soft prohibition on introspection buried in fundamentalist culture. But WLC has no such excuse.
That's why I'm calling him slimy, and that's why I'm not letting him off the hook for this.
I've listened to entire lectures from this guy... philosophy lectures, not apologetics or debate. In these, he well demonstrates that he can do critical thinking.
He knows better than to cite Leviticus as reasoning for adopting a particular attitude toward homosexual acts. And he knows that the vast majority of Christians don't even care about what the Bible says... they just want their bigotry excused.
He knows that the conditions faced by gays have no direct causal relation to homosexual behavior itself. Most of it is causally related to society. He knows this. And he knows how to separate things like promiscuity from homosexuality... ie. he knows how to consider non promiscuous homosexuals... but he doesn't.
It's worse that he knows all this stuff. Because I believe that the ignorance of most Christians stems from a soft prohibition on introspection buried in fundamentalist culture. But WLC has no such excuse.
That's why I'm calling him slimy, and that's why I'm not letting him off the hook for this.
