[TheRaisin]

You. . . don't like lesbians? . . . Wow. How old are you exactly?

How is homosexuality immoral?

Just because something is natural doesn't mean it's genetic. And if homosexuality weren't natural. . . what the hell would it be? You can't manufacture a sexual attraction towards a particular gender (to my knowledge-- you never do know, what with them white labcoat types doing their experiments nowadays and what have you). I think homosexuality should be considered natural. The fact that we are sentient and self-aware doesn't change the fact that we are animals. We do not dictate the forces at work within our own minds and bodies. If homosexuality has manifest itself in humans, then it is natural, because we are part of nature.

Ambi, you have the coolest insights. I'm actually getting somewhat kind of inspired to read the Bible at some point, just to read this kind of stuff for myself.

Majic, that was, to my knowledge, the longest post in this thread.

WHOA! I just thought of something. Okay, okay stay with me here. . . God can't speak directly to human beings, right? Because it would kill them or something because he's so powerful? Well if he's all-powerful, why does he not have the power to like. . . speak more quietly or something? So that he could speak directly with people? That's interesting.

Anyway, what made me think of that is that I was wondering how many angels are in the service of God? Like, should he want to send everyone in the world a personal message at the same time, so he had to use a different messenger for each of the six-odd billion people on the planet, could he do that?

And what made me think of THAT was, I was thinking that the Bible is just a book, you know? Maybe people could serve God best if he were to just speak directly with them rather than finding all these middle-men, you know, prophets and whatnot. Like, wouldn't it be cool if, every time you made a mistake, God could just tap you on the shoulder (metaphorically speaking, of course) and be like, "Hey, do you think maybe you could try to be a little more like this when you're doing that?" Because then you wouldn't have to look stuff up in a ridiculous gigantic book all the time that was written over a thousand years ago.

And also, humans were created in the image of God, right? Humans are obviously not perfect. Does this mean God has his flaws as well? Or did humans become flawed? And if this were the case, would that not mean that God could develop flaws? Can God change? Does he exist within time? I'd like to think of God as being somebody who ages and has flaws and can change his mind and whatnot. I find the image of a God who's actually quite like his umm people or subjects or whatever you would call them more comforting than the old portrayal of God, you know, infallible and terrible, fire and brimstone, f*cking with Job just to prove that Job will still love him no matter what.

BTW, isn't that the worst story you've ever heard? I mean, great googah-moogah. Perhaps this can be construed as more proof that God changes depending on who is interpreting him, and that the Bible should perhaps be taken with a grain of salt. Or not. I dunno. I'm tired. Construe it any way you'd like.