(May 26, 2015 at 2:04 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I'm actually not sure how a theist can be an egalitarian. You have to get past a lot of "kill people for being different" before you finally get to a part that says love your neighbor and enemy, that isn't even original or unique to the bible. It's just the classic glossing over the majority of the old testament, while trying to keep some bits that they like.
Such as the ten commandments, where even in that women are put in the same category as livestock. Also the part that demands discrimination against homosexuals.
What prompted this thread is in a previous thread I made the argument that homosexuality is not equivalent to heterosexuality. I made a rational argument for that position and the only refutation I could come up for it(since you guys all failed to refute it) is that perhaps God created them both to be equivalent.
Like most or all of you, I usually treat different genders, ethnicity, sexual orientations as equivalent in my day to day real world activities. However I'm really just going through the motions. I'm a fake egalitarian.
Lets assume for a moment that egalitarianism is optimal human behavior. Why would it be optimal behavior? One answer and perhaps the best answer is because genders, ethnicity, and sexual orientations are all actually equivalent. If this is true it implies the existence of a God because an unconscious nature simply wouldn't care to create them as such.
