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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster
But it is discriminating to create a majority of people and allow them to act on their sexual urges and to create a minority of people and disallow them to act on those same sexual urges. Unfair, blatantly discriminating, and a faulty design. Usually, one of the main qualities believers attribute to deities and creators is fairness. We clearly have a big problem with fairness in this case. I think it is enough that people are born with different endowments of abilities, some into poverty and some into wealth, some into loving families and some into abusive families. To add unfair treatment for sexual orientation on top of that is extraordinary unfairness.
There is also the issue of victimhood. Any set of laws that is reasonably acceptable should clearly spell out the distinction between acts that hurt somebody and those that do not. In that vein, it should be clearly spelled out that rape is a crime and consensual homosexual acts are just that, consensual acts without hurting any victims. If a set of laws fails to distinguish between rape and consensual sex, it is seriously flawed.
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I'm not sure where the bible says it's ok for
anyone to act on their sexual urges...
And if God would intervene in the way you ask could that be done without removing someone's free will? Jesus was also a poor man who received no extra treatment and never asked for it even when his life was in danger. I don't pretend to understand life but I do not believe the point of life is to gain riches... And is the construct of wealth not created by man? Do you think it would be God's fault that you were not born as the 1%?
And if the living situation of every human was controlled could this be done without intervention that would undermine acts that were in no way violent or incorrect?
Because laws do far more than to prevent only violence so and so I do not understand that stance either. And although many of my own religion would disagree, I believe coincidences do happen.
It is written that by following the commandments one will gain access to heaven. If God were to intervene in every situation then how could it be possible to truly test any man? Would you speak anything but "truth" if the sword of Damocles hung over your head?
But again I am not interested in telling anyone that they are wrong and I would not like to break any rules on religious discussion. I do apologize if I have done either of those things.