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Non Cultural Religous Principles

Hi Freethinker. In response here are a few thoughts. In fact ,usually civil laws follow religious precepts. “Man is like water….he seeks his lowest levels”. As the civilization becomes more depraved they continue to reinterpret the laws to fit their morality until the civilization collapses and the laws collapse upon them. Ie..Persia, Greece and Rome. Famous dictators did not go to the people to change laws…he went to judges who legislated from the bench without consent of the governed. The Bible fits a number of categories from “ceremonial law”, “cultural law” and what I call “lasting principle”. Slavery was a cultural immaturity which eventually Christians…and those of the western (Judeo/Christian) worldview had to eventually deal with as it directly contradicted those “lasting principles” of mutual respect, loving your neighbor as yourself, and God NOT being a respecter of persons.

Other issues. Homosexuality. Regardless of what some individuals in the community of scientists have published that supports the “politically correct” Holy Cow of science…..true homosexual conduct in the natural world is not that prolific. Seen more in captivity with its unnatural changes in their environment, what appears to be same sex behavior is usually either a show of dominance, sensory confusion and identification or an instinctual hormonal overload (IHO). A dog may hump your leg, a tree stump, another male or a stuffed animal. It is not that he has a sexual desire for your leg. It is IHO. One associate of mine calls it “instinctual horniness overload”. We have all experienced that at one time or another. As a matter of fact if a female is present… your dog will quickly forget about another male or your leg. I am quite familiar with the studies of JBS Haldane and observational studies of Bruce Bahemihl, as well as others but do not agree with most their statistical analysis or conclusions. And even though there are some species that have a homosexual bonding, like dolphins or the ostrich, the actual occurrence of sexual contact is minimal. Ultimately, the only purpose of gender is reproduction of the species. Otherwise we might reproduce through parthenogenesis. Population of a species is a delicate balance between production of offspring and death through accident, disease, predators and environmental changes. If homosexual behavior was more “prominent”, being non-offspring producing, the resulting imbalance would result in an extinction of the species. Also the accompanying increase of diseases as a result of the behavior (fecal contamination, intestinal parasites and other STD’s) would further imbalance the birth and death ratio’s. The Bible does not approach this as a “cultural issue” but as a violation of natural law with consequences. That is why even as a society becomes more depraved in its sexual behavior…homosexuality, bestiality, necrophila..etc…the Biblical standard does not change. Historically we see as a civilization comes into decline…..sexual depravity becomes accepted as “normal behavior”. It does not take to much longer for the society to reach its demise with both collapse of family units and rampant diseases. The Bible says “woman was made for man…and man for woman”. Also it is interesting that as we talk of man “evolving”, we still try to excuse behavior by linking him to non-sentient, non reasoning species further down the evolutionary ladder.

Abortion. Another non-cultural “stand” by Christianity and other world religions. As a biologist I agree that when “life” actually begins is more in the purview of the theologian but I can determine life both on a biological and clinical level. Interestingly enough clinical death (in a human) is a lack of heartbeat and biological death is the absence of brainwave activity. (I had both of these discussions at length with Journeyman recently) If a person is not dead….then logically he must be alive. But is that the case with a child in the womb (fetus)? In today’s world political correctness determines whether the fetus is alive or not. At 50 days the human fetus has both a heartbeat and early brain stem activity….and yet they continue to terminate the life of the child all the way into third trimester. Can you think of other periods in history when humans were considered non-human by legal fiat? I can think of few things as barbaric as partial birth (big baby) abortion. Yet if did the same thing to a cat, you would find yourself facing criminal prosecution. It is again amazing the number of non-sentient species on this planet where the unborn are considered to have value and are protected by law. Lobsters, praying mantis, eagles…etc. Man mankind has no worth. An easy step if one see’s man as strictly an accidental result of random molecular cohesion.