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- From: pyeatt@Texaco.com (Larry D. Pyeatt)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism,sci.skeptic
- Subject: God is a Homophobe? Was: Will the -REAL- Christians please stand up?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.225654.17650@texhrc.uucp>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:56:54 GMT
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- In article <01050133.ohmnd7@distant.uucp>, edw@distant.uucp (Ed Watkeys) writes:
- |>
- |> In article <1jo4trINNlp1@pith.uoregon.edu> (alt.atheism,sci.skeptic), delancey@darkwing.uoregon.edu (Scott C DeLancey) writes:
- |>
- |> Assuming, for the sake of argument, that God says homosexuality is immoral,
- |> can you tell us why He says it's immoral? If it's because He says so, please
- |> tell us *why* He says so. Now, we have your *real* reason for thinking that
- |> homosexuality is immoral. Unless you can explain *why* God says homosexuality
- |> is immoral, you're making your god look pretty arbitrary, or, alternatively,
- |> you're making morality beyond human comprehension, which would make me wonder
- |> why we're being held accountable for things that we can't even begin to
- |> comprehend.
- |>
- |> You see, the Divine Command theory of morality doesn't work, even to fellow
- |> believers. You're going to need to fall back onto some other moral theory.
- |>
- |> I'll be looking forward to your *real* justification for condemning
- |> homosexuality.
-
- Could God be a homophobe? How do we deal with a God who has such
- psychological problems? Classical Freudian analysis is useless because
- God has no parents. Lets just hope that there is a rational explanation
- for His dislike of homosexuality. Could his fear and dislike of Homosexuals
- be related to his frequent childish outbursts of jealosy and rage?
-
- BTW - Did you know that Pandas have an extremely high rate of Homosexuality?
- Actually, I think Homosexuality is not the correct word for use on non-human
- species, but it is the only word we have to describe males who are sexually
- attracted to other males.
-
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