2011-05-27, 12:03 PM
It's refreshing to see the more liberal side of the religious community. I kind of have the same thought process. I don't believe god created heaven or hell based on actions, sins, but did give us general guidelines to what is right and wrong. Now how much of it is distorted is entirely up in the air. People say "god's a hypocrite, God's this, God's that" and it irritates me because, if anything, it's man in the end who corrupted words, if not made them up.
Let's assume god is up there and works the universe like clockwork, using science, and were just slowly determining his tools, do you think he's that unreasonable to believe because you fall in love with the same sex, you are then deemed for hell? It's clearly a biological thing, so if anything it's god's fault. In my opinion, the reason that is in the bible is so that during that time, when condoms, birth control, or anything other than barebacking didn't exist, they had to put some type of responsibility in sex. So they put that if intercourse is used for pleasure only, it's a sin, which kind of makes sense considering the general rule of thumb is that too much of a good thing is bad. Homosexuals were, unnatural, and were not understood uring those times, therefore were "wrong". I don't believe god had this intention of discrimination, I don't believe he wanted to be worshiped, he just wanted people to understand, inflicting pain, emotionally and physically is a wrong.
I believe there's some type of, background power in the world, in the universe, whether it's god or "life energy", really doesn't matter too me. Or even if science run's itself, I believe there is more than just living to survive.
Let's assume god is up there and works the universe like clockwork, using science, and were just slowly determining his tools, do you think he's that unreasonable to believe because you fall in love with the same sex, you are then deemed for hell? It's clearly a biological thing, so if anything it's god's fault. In my opinion, the reason that is in the bible is so that during that time, when condoms, birth control, or anything other than barebacking didn't exist, they had to put some type of responsibility in sex. So they put that if intercourse is used for pleasure only, it's a sin, which kind of makes sense considering the general rule of thumb is that too much of a good thing is bad. Homosexuals were, unnatural, and were not understood uring those times, therefore were "wrong". I don't believe god had this intention of discrimination, I don't believe he wanted to be worshiped, he just wanted people to understand, inflicting pain, emotionally and physically is a wrong.
I believe there's some type of, background power in the world, in the universe, whether it's god or "life energy", really doesn't matter too me. Or even if science run's itself, I believe there is more than just living to survive.