Let me see if I can explain my position. I feel that certain things are "wrong" in God's eyes, but I recognize that many people don't believe in God at all, and that while others may believe in Him, they would not necessarily believe as I do about what He considers "wrong."
Perhaps they believe in different gods? Remember the people crashing planes into the World Trade Center?
They Agreed with you... Homosexuality is wrong... it perhaps might even be the reason they did what they did...
Your god is just a thought process... at some point you have to acknowledge your religious view you use as a way of life is your opinion with no empirical proof. Sure you have some evidence and perhaps that evidence is enough for you to defend your position with words but there are others who defend their position with crashing planes into buildings.
Clearly convincing me of how certain you are of your beliefs is not substitute for logically and reasonably proving your point of view.
If you can not logically and reasonably do so you are still free to maintain your beliefs in america. That is why we can have mormons, atheists, wiccans and Gaiaists all together. Witches and mormons might live on the same street and while the mormons might come by occasionally to preach the good word they wont actually murder the wiccans or say they can't marry.
Mormons will however say Women should Not marry women and Men not men because its immoral. Immoral how? Well we believe X and your Y does not compute with our X...
Great... Well your X was what people thought in days now gone. In modern times our ideas transcend your ridiculous and ancient moral code.
Oh...
Well we still think X is right.
But clearly X is wrong.
Ahh well god Appeared and said X is now good so we are on board with Y.
Sigh.
Since we are a society of people whose beliefs about God vary enormously, I don't think we are in a position to try to impose our beliefs about what we may think God sees as "wrong" on those who don't share our opinions. We legislate against murder, theft, rape and arson because we all (i.e. the overwhelming majority of people in our society) agree that they are harmful to an innocent party. We enact laws to protect ourselves from people whose behaviors would harm us, our loved ones, or our property. It's not that we do this because we don't think God approves of those things. We just want to be safe and know that offenders will be punished. Does that make sense?
Yes it does. But Can I translate?
Outside of our own personal beliefs and thoughts we all have to live as Americans. American's have a secular justice and secular way that transcends Satanists who are american, catholics who are american, wiccans who are american and Mormons who are also american.
It transcends individual religious views and says you are free to believe what you want but you can still not violate these secular rules.
Some religious people say to hell with that and are very vocal on the forums while others gun Dr Tiller down in church or crash planes into buildings.
Do you get my point?
Beyond as a nation... As a world... we need to forget the afterlife hooey and concentrate on making the current life moral... If afterlife beliefs do not interfere with real life morality then great... but if they result instead in priests raping kids, planes crashing into buildings, People being stoned to death and people rallying to say gay people should not have the same rights as straight people then we need to address that.
IMHO.
At the end of the day XyZ religion may say ABC is immoral and YTC religion may say ABC is moral but we need to have a right answer and neither YTC or XyZ is going to necessarily have the right answer. Hence Reason, Logic and science and if a religion thinks that they can transcend reason, logic and science by just being really fanatic and really supporting their view since they do not intend to hurt anyone but instead just want to support their logic they need to realize that others may feed into that and not be so peaceful... Thus how not guilty are they?
TLDR: Any religion may consider X moral or immoral, a non religious and unbaised answer is more desirable and more accurate then any particular religious view.
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