Re: Teaching Deifies "God's Plan"


wen wrote:
This Teaching says,
"Secrecy has much deceit, cunningness and cynicism
in it. Homosexuality, for years, has carried these
characteristics. We cannot allow it to be thought of
as a natural way of life. It is not. It is sad, but there
is more to it than just being a sad situation. It corrupts
the thinking, it destroys the purpose for which man was
born to the world,

Which presupposes the author knows precisely and incontrovertibly why "man was born to the world" (genetic imperative & sumptuary laws if you read the whole rant) and we might add the flesh and the devil.

But that aside. The reasoning from nature of self evident natural laws is based on as flawed a perspective and understanding of the natural world as the belief in an after life and a God and/or saviour.

The Ancients saw a cycle of birth and death in the natural world. And they reasoned form their limited perspective that as the tree is reborn every year so must the individual man be.

We now know that not only is man NOT the centre of the universe, the sun does not rise and set around him or his planet but we also know the tree does not truly die, it hibernates or sleeps, systole and diastolic rhythms to vegetable life.

Religion in general but christianity in particular is an elaborate theology based on a flawed premise.

And if we start talking about waking up rather than being re born we might have to conceded some buddhist terminology:)
--
JL
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