Jesus told his followers to be sexually pure, and from a Jewish perspective, that included homosexuality. Therefore, to the Christian, homosexuality is a sin, and should be avoided for the sake of following God's will.
You know I said that in jest...
That makes ethical code relative to the society which makes it the same as majority rule.
Ethical ideas when in practice are called laws, it maybe majority rule, but that is democracy, if you don't like a particular law you are free to vote someone else in or to exercise your democratic right to protest it.
And I wasn't sure, try using smilies![]()
Then ethical code is controlled by society and moral code is decided by a individual, from the most part a moral code is stricter then the ethics of a society. That doesn't make it that moral code unethical, it would only be unethical if it was forced on others.
Jesus told his followers to be sexually pure, and from a Jewish perspective, that included homosexuality. Therefore, to the Christian, homosexuality is a sin, and should be avoided for the sake of following God's will.
I never said it was, I just question the foundation of such morals, and as of yet I haven't seen any reason not to do otherwise. It seems that the only good reason is God said so, that is not going to sway religious liberals or secularist communities, in fact it's a bit of a weak argument from that perspective.
What did he mean by this, was he condemning adultery or something else, can you show me where he meant homosexuality or just prostitution, promiscuity or adultery?
If that's the case, then, you've got some serious issuesGod tells me I shouldn't kill people, to be honest the only reason I don't kill people is because he told me not too. Should I not listen to god?![]()
You Forgot to add no BJs.Two things: First, I don't think this is so much a societal law as it is a moral one, which is more important. Second, I already have my "sexuality" limited by moral rules: I don't believe I can morally have sex with another man, or an animal, or with any woman I am not married to. It's not like we're saying "no sexual limitations for straight people, but gays don't get any".
People just love to whip the dead horseWhy do we need another thread like this? Dead. Horse. Whipped. Into. Puree.
People just love to whip the dead horse.
Does that mean that all Morality must me come from rationality and if it doesn't does that mean it is not a "moral"?
I guess that, uh, depends on how you define "define".@B3K: Well, how do we define "morality" then?
The term “morality” can be used either
1. descriptively to refer to a code of conduct put forward by a society or,
a. some other group, such as a religion, or
b. accepted by an individual for her own behavior or
2. normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational persons.
It seems preferable to whipping a live horse.Which is also morally wrong . . .![]()
"Live", "dead", whatever you pervs call it.
No, just being nitpicky.So if it is dead its not immoral?
Morally wrong to you, but really do you think the secular world cares about your opinion,
since we've introduced laws in Europe making discrimination against gays illegal, and even voicing this opinion in public or to a crowd of people could get you locked up, you'll have to do better than that.
I see pretty much what I expected, it's morally wrong because God said so, there's no weight of morality behind it, no reason.
Just basically the reason it was no doubt founded in the first place and is still going, disgust and insecurity