It is usually wrong to kill another human because our life is made precious by respecting other's lives and that other person has value and a place in society. Theft is wrong because another has worked and acquired an item and it may be of special value or importance to them. Both basically because we wouldn't want them done to us. Adultery is wrong because it violates a trust from a loved one and can bring disease and illegitimate children into a home. There is a real reason that wrong is wrong. Why are each of the commandments wrong? Why is homosexualtiy wrong? "God said so" is a cop out. If it is wrong, it is wrong for another reason too. I would like to hear why?
2007-03-17T18:08:01Z
Fireball226, that is the God said so cop out. As is your answer Maguyver727
Jess H2007-03-17T18:49:09Z
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It's not wrong. I know God "says" it's wrong in the Bible, but God in the Bible also says that it's OK to own and beat slaves. (You can beat them as long as you don't kill them.) So if somebody says that homosexuality is wrong because God said so in the Bible, then it would stand to reason that they believe everything the Bible says, and therefore they also believe that it's OK to own and beat slaves. Hey...you either believe what the Bible says or you don't. You can't pick and choose...
Wrongs can be different between cultures and can change over time.
Some cultures believe that certain food must be prepared in a certain way and it is wrong to do otherwise. That wrong my have evolved before refrigeration was available and so may no longer be applicable. Even so, there will be some who follow the tradition just because it worked for prior generations.
For people who believed in the necessity for racial purity some people it was wrong to have integrated schools, shared restaurants and bathrooms. For people who believed in male superiority, it used to be wrong for women to expect equal pay.
For populations that were dying because of disease or loss of life in war and natural disaster, one can imagine that homosexuality was discouraged because it diverted sexual energy from reproduction.
I suspect that if you check the 10 Commandments you will find that each was described to discourage actions that tended to have bad results for those societies at that time and probably still does. In many cases, just as you have described and to the developed world of the 21st century, these bad results appear quite logical.
In Biblical times, only a few understood the logic or had the wisdom. Moses was very wise indeed and knew that the long suffering Tribes would never have believed he could personally have such wisdom but if he described these as the words of God, well . . . . . .
Why is "because God said so" a cop out? About why homosexuality is wrong: 1. God said so 2. In case you don't believe in God, because homosexuality doesn't contribute new people to perpetuate the species. 3. There is not a more promiscuous, unstable, std infected sub-culture any where. However, people who will not accept "because God said so" for a reason usually will not accept other more tangible reasons for things either so I'm not going to hold my breath for ten points on this one.
The reason people use "God says" is because he does. The very first commandment EVER was "be fruitful and multiply" if two men reside together, they can't possibly do that. And the same with women. Adam and eve were a man and a woman FOR A REASON. They have the perfect contrast. Male animals only ever produced young with a females.
Not if we're an accident. No if we're serendipity.
If things are RANDOM, nothing matters.
There IS no MEANING to anything.
MEANING comes with RELIGION.
You exist, big deal, so do I and I am more important than YOU, I have needs. I have needs to live, have sexual relief, have comfort, I come first you don't fit into the equation at all
NAME ONE REASON why I should include an ACCIDENTAL person into the equation and make them more important than I
Why should I BOW and PRAY TO YOU
Why should I REVER you
Why should I be penetant
Give me a reason
We are MADE ACCIDNETIALLY BY A GOOF OF THE UNIVERSE, WE DOn'T MEAN AT THING, WE HAVE NO PATERNATY, WE COME FROM MONKEYS we should just monkey around
What's all this MORALIST bolloeny!
What are you, some kind of a beleive in something higher!
What, I'm supposed to think something else matters more