I'm afraid this is another nasty article by a protagonist for the homosexual community

Jon J,
The choice of behaviour is ours to make. God does not make homosexuals anymore than he makes peadophiles. Both are decisions of choice. Studies show that most homosexual men are aroused equally as hetrosexual in the presence of a naked woman and can equally father children. That is the design principle. Their actions are a matter of their own will.

Philo
"In your view of theists you hate the idea of accountability to the moral excellence - God."

My belief in accountabiity is stronger than any propensity to believe in the supernatural. Too long the Church has bee accountable to no-one including God. Like all of us, my personal experiences have shaped my beliefs about what it means to be human including a strong belief in accountability.

Moral excellence - who gets to decide? It certainly isn't any perfect God, but men who uses the veil of faith to dicate to others what they believe is a moral code which usually reinforces a particular power balance within and without the Church.

I don't find anything excelling in the reinforcing of discrimination towards women or homosexuals in the Church, or in some more extreme Churches where white man is thought to be superior to any other which continues to spurn organisations like the Klu-Klux Clan. Or where women were burnt at the stake as witches for being nothing more than overtly expressive in many cases.

These are not moral codes I would wish to aspire to or teach to my children. I do not find it 'excellent' to bring children up to believe they are inherently evil and must continually atone to some imaginary figurehead that does not exist, while having huge impact on their developing psyche and self esteem.

If indeed some Christians define God as not of the supernatural but a way of expressing the "...spirit expressed in the perfection and purity of human character" as you put it, it still does not provide 'evidence' for God as mainstream religion would define him.

I agree with you that humans certainly are not perfect but I don't believe it is only those who "accept the perfection of God ought to repent and aspire to live by it" are the only ones aspiring to live a moral life.

" as any ideology declines in popularity the ones who remain tend to be the more extreme. "
That applies perfectly in the case of those who still believe in the man-made global warming ideology/ 'religion'.

Hi Philo -- so people are allowed to choose to follow the forbidden desires that God has given them, but they aren't allowed to choose to live long and healthy lives? Sounds a bit unfair, doesn't it? I thought God liked freedom of choice.

Jon J,
Conditioned emotional attachments or attractions are not genetic [God given], but envirinmental.