(March 17, 2013 at 12:35 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote:(March 17, 2013 at 12:28 am)Aractus Wrote: Your argument is so incoherent and illogical that it barely deserves a response. Instead I'll ask you a question.
Are you asserting that, like the desire for sex, we all have the desire to rape, pillage and murder? If this is your argument, then it goes without saying it's also an admission that you have these desires, thus my question to you is a simple one - how do you, TEGH, overcome your desires to rape, pillage and murder?
No, I'm not. And even if I did, how I might over come that is irrelevant.
My argument is that some individuals for whatever reasons may have the propensity to develop a desire to rape and murder. If said individuals also happen to be fundamentalist Christians, they may be more inclined to develop and act upon that desire than they would if they were more liberal because fundamentalist Christians lack an outside-of-marriage sexual ethics system.
You should give proof of this statement, I would think that more rapists are not Christians than are Christians. The priest you mentioned were being Christian, they were not a Christian, people play at Christianity all the time, it doesn't mean they are Christians.
Yes, Christians make mistakes (sin) but they are taught to overcome, by allowing Christ to be their guide, instead of those things that drive most humans to bad behavior.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
