(June 17, 2015 at 7:29 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(June 17, 2015 at 2:27 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Probably not, so to answer you, right.-and yet, you don't think that Adam and Steve should be married. I'm not interested in arguing that with you, people are free to have opinions, I don't have to agree with your opinion to enjoy your conversation or your company. The thing that interests me, is that we can follow (just in our conversation, but certainly in other aspects of life) your gut and my gut consider the same thing, coming to the same conclusions over the same reasons....and both of us agree that everything going into that was good....
I wouldn't have the same understanding of sexuality if I did not have any sort of belief in God or a higher being of any sort.
...and then this "god" business interrupts.
I just don't see why the author of righteousness would be such a disruption, such a departure...particularly if he wrote this morality into our hearts, as the saying goes and as you believe. When you do a 180 from your gut and everything that came before.....and then say "because god"......well, I'm sorry if I can't help but mention that you seem like a much nicer, much more thoughtful (and well justified) person than that guy (yes, even nicer than jesus). I don't know how this god stuff could help you to understand -why- something is good or bad...if his understanding is a 180 from your own before the conversation can even begin?
It's like saying that someone helped you to understood -why- blue was...except that everytime you called something blue they told you that it was orange. How is that even -supposed- to work>?
(jesus christ,.....your thread got shittified hard since I was last on, that residual hostility business I mentioned at the beginning...there you go, now you know why)
Well, to clarify, while I don't know that I would find any reason to think monogamous homosexual activity is immoral, my "gut" would probably tell me that there's something a little "off" about it (at least initially, until I got used to the idea). It could be because it's just different from me, or it could be because of something deeper. I wouldn't know so I'd probably just ignore it.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
