sapphi_snake said:
The Christian God aims to control people and every aspect of their lives. The basis is that he somehow has some sort of right to the lives of the people he created, and his whims must be law. That's no different than a dictator. Christianity is full of irrational oppressive rules, than in no way make everyone's lives better. The philosophy you talk about predates Christianity. Confucious came up with the Golden Rule long before Jesus was even born. |
How does God intend to control every aspect of our lives when we were given freedom to choose? Well, seeing as he is the Creator of all things, in a sense He has a right to decide things. Dictators didn`t create life.
Irrational oppressive rules? Well seeing as Jesus never obligated anyone of his followers but asked them to join them and seeing that He even died for us because of love, where exactly those kind of rules emanate from, because the commandment that He taught was to love one another like He loved us. Isn`t that the highest value? Doesn`t that make people an end per se and not a means to an end?
What you don`t seem to understand is that faith IS love and, like love for a any single person, it envolves one giving himself to God, because people believe that love it`s mutual. Does God expect something of us. Yes He does. Does He force anyone to do it? No. People choose what they want to do.
To the comments above, one thing is saying that religions are against homosexuality and another is they are against homosexuals. Unfortunately, many, many people (religious people aswell), don`t separate these two and thus give the impression that there isn`t a difference there when there is. What religions aim for is to be people to correct their ways thus fighting sin/temptation and not the person who sins. When people don`t see this separation, then they are doing something that they shouldn`t.
