Re: considering....and rejecting
Submitted by armenta on May 19 2000 20:20:02
In reply to considering....and rejecting submitted by Scott on May 19 2000 12:45:05
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Thank you for at least considering my points. There is so much response to this. I havevery much considered that I may be wrong. I also do not claim to know the Truth about anything at all. It would seem to me however that although there is a feeling that there is something is right or wrong, there has to be also a corresponding fact. If we felt that ice was cold, we need not measure its temperature, although if we did it would correspond to our feeling. Now..I certainly believe in your love and deep feelings, and truly, those feelings are so rare sometimes we are so lucky to have them, but the feeling and the "fact" are very difficult to reconcile. Of course there is no way to really know in black and white whether ANYTHING is "bad" or "good", or "even "bad" for one thing and "good" for another. There is no way to know. I simply propose that a way to stand in, at least, the shadow of the truth is by what people say and think collectivley. That is what helps define what is appropriate and what is not. The incredible outrageous hostility and contempt in the direction of boylove, and even the fact that there is a support group where certainly a minority of people take the stand that you do, might reflect the morality of boylove.I predict that if we polled the people of the world on if boylove was "morally right or wrong", the grand majority would say it is wrong. I am not saying we should listen to what people say about what we believe or choose not to believe, that it would be a good precedent to set for every situation, but in cases of helping to define even the "lowest" standard of morality we should accept in our lives (such as truly horrendous things such as serial murder or something)it is at least worthy of consider. (Please note that I am not equating you or anything about you to serial murder. I'm sorry if I came across like that. I truly care very much about your feelings, ok?) Also, at the very least, just being able to reconcile boylove with the themes and philosophy of the Bible, even interpreted at the most simplest level is incredibly difficult. Even athiests agree would agree. In fact, the link that referred me to this page found it so difficult to recocile, he assumed this page was a joke, a satire of Christianity. |
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