(January 2, 2015 at 11:50 am)strawdawg Wrote: Odds are this girl and her parents were not close or she could have confided in her parents about anything. Chances are religion played no part in it.
Bullshit. Regardless of the relationship of the parents, Christianity says that homosexuality is evil. If religion had played no part and the relationship with her parents were bad, she would have just left her family. The religion conditioned her to believe her instinctual feelings were evil. It played the whole part.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell