question about christian view of homosexuality

I was just thinking, in christianity (and probably a bunch of other monotheistic religions) god is very against homosexuality and generally condemns you to hell for poking someone in the ass. might I ask why? is there some consequence, some harm done to god or society or somebody if you stick your penis in somebody's anus? what's the whole reason behind this ruling, or is it just accepted "because god said it" with no real reason given?

I think the general arguments are;

God said so.
It's dirty.
It's not natural.
Homosexuals corrupt our children!
Homosexuality means less families will be created, and less children raised.

Don't even get me started on countering those stupid arguments.

As an aside, when you consider the bible in it's original context - all those many many years ago - homosexuality would have been frowned upon slightly as no children would have resulted from the union - masturbation was discouraged for the same reason. The penis' function was to create babies.

God, like any other totalitarian dictator, does not need to explain himself. God is perfect so there must be some reason for his actions, right? And if you use the free will God gave you to reason out some rules that are more logical than his, then you have to ignore them or burn.

My God doesn't give a shit. My Lord doesn't care. The more queers, the less we have to worry about overpopulation.

edit:Dear God I Believe In You, Dear God I trust In You, Dear God I Love You. Amen.

if everyman and every woman that could reproduce did (meaning all the gay people turned straight all of a sudden) this world would quickly become over populated, opposed to the rate at which it's moving now. as science grows stronger and stronger and we cure diseases that's more and more people that live when "they weren't supposed to" do n't get me wrong, i don't think anyone should have to die if they can be saved...but you have to think about it....the earths population steadily grows and grows the more and more people are saved from disease they before would have died from...if he was even real what could be his reasoning? that he wanted us to be so over populated we used every resource and we all died, or very few of us lived? i don't have the figures, but think about how many people there was back in a 1400's, then think about how how many more were in the 1800's as medicine started to grow, then look at now.....1400's North america didn't have that many humans inhabitting it, mainly just the indians, by 1800's parts of it were inhabited by new people as well as the indians, in the present time i'm going to guess atleast 1/2 of it is highly populated as well as all the other continents that had people back in the 1400's. imagine what it will be like by 2400, assuming no great disaster happens wiping out millions if not billions of people.

All these diseases may be tests. We may have to purify the Earth in order for God to do what He's gonna do. Maybe the Second Coming, or Third, Fifth, whatever will be when the Earth is clean. I don't know. I was never taught the Bible, my view on it is God will someday come down "from the heavens" and grant us everlasting life.

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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs

My God doesn't give a shit. My Lord doesn't care. The more queers, the less we have to worry about overpopulation.

edit:Dear God I Believe In You, Dear God I trust In You, Dear God I Love You. Amen.

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Again, you're picking and choosing which parts of the Bible you want to believe in without any real guidelines. If you're going to use the Bible as a moral guide, you can't throw out some of the rules just because you don't like them. If you're not going to accept the Bible's wacky claims that God views homosexuality as an abomination, how can you accept its equally wacky claims that Jesus is the son of God and a virgin? Where in it does God say "I was just kidding about that gay stuff, but Jesus really is divine"?

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Originally Posted by Leviticus 18:22

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

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Originally Posted by Leviticus 20:13

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

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Originally Posted by Deuteronomy 23:17-18

There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

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Originally Posted by 1 Kings 14:24

And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

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Originally Posted by Romans 1:26-27

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

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Originally Posted by Jude 1:7-8

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs

All these diseases may be tests. We may have to purify the Earth in order for God to do what He's gonna do. Maybe the Second Coming, or Third, Fifth, whatever will be when the Earth is clean. I don't know. I was never taught the Bible, my view on it is God will someday come down "from the heavens" and grant us everlasting life.

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So I'm punished with death just because I was born in 1985 and not 2985? What the hell did I do to deserve that? What a dick this God guy is. :mad:

You're not punished, yet, calm down. We have to figure it out, together.

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Originally Posted by Oneironaut

So I'm punished with death just because I was born in 1985 and not 2985? What the hell did I do to deserve that? What a dick this God guy is. :mad:

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Just forget about it.