(October 24, 2013 at 7:28 am)hobie Wrote: My friend tells me I shouldn't lust after women and it's a sin. I want to stop, but how do you turn off being attracted to hot females?
Turn gay?
I think that 'thought crime' is a fairly insidious way to keep people in check. No matter how closely you follow god's laws and the attitudes that Jesus told his followers to have, you can never be anything but a lowly sinner. You will falter because you're an imperfect human and therefore you cannot escape the need to be saved by god through Jesus. It's a very effective leash.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
