I am not afraid of religion, I simply do not subscribe to organized theology. My understanding of the potential for something greater than us is acheived solely through math, science, and reason.
however,if you wanted to stick to biology, i would have preferred you to have stuck to words without such obvious religious connotations.
I would agree that it is abnormal in nature to be homosexual, or to abort a fetus, but that doesn't necessarily make it wrong, evil, or sinful (as the common man understands these words). Ironically, across species, abnormalities appear to be the rule and not the exception. Homosexual acts occur in many other species and practically every advance in evolution began as an "abnormality" of sorts.
Aside from this, in your comment that "we have no right to insist that any human should accept or by any other means respect or recognize these inhuman behaviors" you appear to want to force your strict interpretation of humanity down peoples' throats. Isn't freewill one of the most fundamental higher expressions of human existence? After all, homosexuals and abortionists are not demanding that you participate in their abnormal behavior, just that you don't make them criminals for being what they are. If all you are saying is that you don't have to accept or respect their behavior, I would agree. Feel free to despise disrespect, or ignore them all you want, imho.
As a side note, based on your thinking, anything extraneous to marriage and procreation is inhuman. what about a bisexual who dabbles in gaydom prior to settling down with woman? is this abhorrent as well?
>>Strip away all of these higher expressions and walk back to the first expression and there you will find what you are most fundamentally
I disagree, a newly formed embryo has no consciousness, no memory, no desire, no fear, ... none of the essential higher expressions of humanity that you agree also define what we are. I believe that we might be genetically human without these higher expressions, but not truly and fully human. I believe that essense of being human is not our genetic code (though that is a prerequisite), but the shared manner in which humans experience the world around them.
(note: if you want to dig even further into the nature of the universe, read up on M-theory. I find it compelling to view human consciousness in parallel to this theory.. where our consiousness could be defined as the membrane through which the real world gets filtered on its route to our biology.)
>>Marriage is the biological basis of human existence. What we do when we say “I do” is just participate in weddings, a higher expression that takes place in view of the fundamental biology that under girds us all.
i bet you're a fan of the mandelbrot set. however, just because you can draw a parallel between two occurrences in nature does not make it a fundamental truth, neither doesn't mean that outliers should be considered unnatural, and it certainly doesn't make those outliers "evil." It just looks pretty.
...my brain needs a rest. |
