My brother's bible class was teaching him about "addiction"
September 21, 2014 at 4:49 pm
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2014 at 5:01 pm by MusicLovingAtheist.)
so my brother's bible class apparently was teaching him that porn and sex are an addiction. Every time I try to tell him what I think he's saying he tells me that I'm twisting his words whenever he says something. He says that porn is purely for self pleasure. I told him that sex and porn are a good thing because it releases endorphins into your brain and it's good for your dick and there are benefits to having sex. I told asked him what the science behind this is and he said "what does science have to do with anything." He thinks that sex is a moral decision. Sex is not a moral decision. It's necessary to survival and it's what we are meant to do. Keeping yourself from having sex is simply unnatural. He said "yeah it's natural between a man and a woman". I told him the only reason the church is telling him these things is because they think it's sinful and they want you to focus more on god. The church thinks that focusing on pleasurable things takes away your attention from god. He said I was twisting his words and that that was probably a Catholic idea.
My brother is 15 years old and he hardly ever talks to me or my parents. My dad is an atheist who does not go to Church and my mom is an agnostic. They are both strongly liberal and my brother seems to be going down a strange path. He said "you're probably going to tell mom and dad about this" and I told him that I wasn't; I want him to tell them about it. He said before that homosexuality is just a type of self pleasure and it's immoral. I tried to tell him yesterday that homosexuals literally have no interest in the opposite sex. I feel so unequipped to actually have real debates with him though. I'm used to just talking to people on the internet and I have no real knowledge of how to have this kind of discussion with someone. Even after today's discussion where we were standing in his doorway for like 30 minutes, at the end of it he just told me that he doesn't know why he's even having this discussion.
I hate to see my brother getting indoctrinated into these kind of twisted idiologies and beliefs. He's a smart guy. He's in advanced courses at school and he builds computers. I wish I had arguments down for how to deal with this. He doesn't feel that I am a valid source of information so he doesn't want to have these discussions with me or my parents. It's almost disturbing. Can anyone help?
My brother is 15 years old and he hardly ever talks to me or my parents. My dad is an atheist who does not go to Church and my mom is an agnostic. They are both strongly liberal and my brother seems to be going down a strange path. He said "you're probably going to tell mom and dad about this" and I told him that I wasn't; I want him to tell them about it. He said before that homosexuality is just a type of self pleasure and it's immoral. I tried to tell him yesterday that homosexuals literally have no interest in the opposite sex. I feel so unequipped to actually have real debates with him though. I'm used to just talking to people on the internet and I have no real knowledge of how to have this kind of discussion with someone. Even after today's discussion where we were standing in his doorway for like 30 minutes, at the end of it he just told me that he doesn't know why he's even having this discussion.
I hate to see my brother getting indoctrinated into these kind of twisted idiologies and beliefs. He's a smart guy. He's in advanced courses at school and he builds computers. I wish I had arguments down for how to deal with this. He doesn't feel that I am a valid source of information so he doesn't want to have these discussions with me or my parents. It's almost disturbing. Can anyone help?
