(July 8, 2015 at 7:49 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(July 8, 2015 at 7:41 pm)Stimbo Wrote: It is a good indicator of what is natural behaviour, though.
Very true.
But we believe we are called to try to act beyond our natural inclinations at times.
Which would be fine if that's the whole package. Unfortunately, these beliefs also call for the denial of natural "inclinations"; or worse, that people act contrary to them - in essence, criminalising human nature.
(July 8, 2015 at 7:49 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Nonetheless, if you don't agree, then don't follow it. No one is forcing anyone else to follow the Church's teachings on sexual morality. :-)
That's one of the many, many reasons I don't.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'