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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Treknophyle: [QB] "...and since no such objective judgements can be made about ethical systems or cultures, no such comparison can be made. Thanks." Crap. (oh, excuse me) Fertilizer. Tolerance for differing lifeforms is more ethically advanced than intolerance - so long as the differing lifestyle does not harm anyone else - which as Peregrinus has pointed out, gays do not. I thought we all learned that back in TOS with IDIC. How can one claim to be a Star Trek fan, and not embrace this most fundamental of axioms: Tolerance - even love for differences is the heart of Trek - and the beginning of enlightenment. I think you dropped the ball, Omega. Tell the truth (you seem to be intellectually honest): Is this belief that homosexuality is bad a personal belief, or did you acquire it from your clergy? If the second, why can't you make up your own mind. 'God's a busy man' - why not do your own thinking? Jesus of Nazareth (pretty sharp guy from what I've read - founded one of the most successful corporations in the biggest industry in history (the only one which doesn't require a product for its investors) said; 'It is harder for a rich man to enter the Kindom of Heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.' I put it to you that is should be just as hard for an intellectually-honest Christian person to enjoy Star Trek. I mean, really! We have persons carrying on fornication. We have an obvious acceptance of evolution (and of course, a true Christian believes that Dinosaurs never existed, that the fossils were created 'as is'. Heck, we have humans having sexual relations with non-humans - and having progeny! That has to be worse that a woman lying with a donkey - bestiality at its most foul! Why weren't the Christians protesting that abomination? Unless one were intellectually dishonest (which I am sure you are not), a true Christian has to take the entire bible as the literal truth. Why? Because if one small crack appears in its omni-truth - if believers start saying 'this part I believe, but not this part because it is too unbelievable' - it opens up the Bible to Occams Razor of Logic - which states that the simplest explanations are most likely to be true, and the most complex explanations are least likely to be true. And I put it to you that an Eternal God, an Afterlife, and Creation are the least likely of all Biblical 'facts'. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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