Lentern
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Silly me for thinking that having a positive result makes something a good thing and having a negative one makes it a bad thing.I dont accept that for something to be 'wrong' it has to 'hurt' an individual, or me. Society as a whole is hurt, the family unit is hurt, the divine plan of procreation is hurt. Why does everybody confuse love with personal fulfillment? With lust? 'The good' is not always 'the pleasurable'. This confusion is one of the greatest problems in today's consumer society. Often it is good to deny temptation to selfishness and greed! This all comes back to the concept that there are greater truths beyond the individual! Accepting this is the touchstone of absolutism! It is the foundation of Christianity!
Society is not harmed by homsexuality, it took some considerable steps forward under Philip of Macedon from memory. If you don't mind my saying it shows a special kind of arrogance to tell two people whom are completely devoted to each other that what they share is not love but personal fulfillment and lust. But thats allright because it fits into the constraints of the contemporary foundation of christianity, hopefully it will fit into the foundation of christianity in twenty years time.
Don't get me wrong, I love Jesus and reckon can't imagine where I'd be without prayer, but their comes a time when the church says tha what they think you should do is effectively inflicting pain uponanother of god's beautiful sons and daughters and one has to take a step back and think "hang on, maybe the scholars got this one wrong" and thats when you pray.