If God is ultimate...and is inherently sexless...why did he give us sexes?
If we are not to enjoy sex...why did he make it enjoyable?
If he gave us free will...why did he create things to test our free will or to limit our free will? I will give this child this toy but I will boil him alive if he plays with it, because I decree it so...yikes.
Why does God impose upon us rules that cannot be imposed on himself? He has no wife, he has no bodily child, he has no fluids, no nothing. He is literally telling us to not fuck around when he cannot even do such a thing.
Why are we to listen to a book that was written in a day and age when women had no rights, the will of men was ultimate, slaves abounded, sleeping with young girls was perfectly acceptable, selling children was acceptable as well, torture and cruel punishment were the norm? Also, why should we listen to a book that has been revised / translated / edited time and time again, transcribed and generally modified in ways we cannot even begin to imagine, for purposes that could as well serve Man as a whole or just a man because he preferred it so?
I always think of this image when I hear that some saint heard the voice of God and people followed him onto their own deaths at times.
I have asked the above questions time and time again and have never, EVER received a satisfactory answer, one in which I could not poke holes with just a bit of inspection. I have been told to shut up, I have been told that it's so because it's so - go go terrible religion teacher -, I have been told that God had protected his word - which I find to be baloney - and so on.
I am not attacking the belief of someone. I am merely stating why I, as an individual, cannot believe and will not believe in this. To ask me to do this is to ask me to go against my nature and lie to myself just to...to what precisely? To believe in happily ever after? I say pas.
