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- From: edw@distant.uucp (Ed Watkeys)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism,sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Will the -REAL- Christians please stand up? Was: What did Judas be
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 04:46:59 GMT
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- In article <1jo4trINNlp1@pith.uoregon.edu> (alt.atheism,sci.skeptic), delancey@darkwing.uoregon.edu (Scott C DeLancey) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan20.213756.8012@hfsi.uucp> ata@hfsi.UUCP (John Ata - FSO) writes:
- > >
- > >I would be most greatful if you could point out to me the passages in
- > >Scripture that support "treating gays badly".
- >
- > Well, one that leaps to mind is Leviticus 18, where among the many
- > offences for which the offender is to be "cut off from his people" is
- > for a man to lie with a man as with a woman.
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- Not to inject reason into this, but could you ask these questions for me?
-
- 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.
-
- Ed
-
- > Scott DeLancey
-
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