The most laughable thing about all this, from my perspective, is the same folks preaching about “unnatural” this or that pray to the “supernatural”.
There’s **natural **and artificial, in terms of one is found in nature and one has to be constructed. This doesn’t really apply here, because homosexuals are found naturally occurring in the world, just like heterosexuals. You want to talk about homosexual feelings, that boils down to chemistry, biology, and physical attraction, which are naturally occurring processes. So naturally occurring, in fact, that attempts to suppress them artificially end in failure.
There’s natural, meaning “How God intended”, *but that’s not actually natural, now is it? *That’s supernatural. And there’s not a shred of evidence supporting such a hypothesis. If it were truly “unnatural” then this supposed God figure wouldn’t have had to step in and go “No, no, don’t do this”. It means some people are naturally inclined to partake in such behaviors and experience those feelings. It wouldn’t require a hidden deity figure telling people to stop doing it if it weren’t something people did all on their own, with no outside help.
Then we talk about natural as in “how I want things to be”, which isn’t what natural means. In fact, it means the opposite. This kind of “natural” is the kind of natural which says men and women are required to suppress their natural instincts to mate until they get married, only marry the opposite sex, and only have vaginal penetrative sex, and only with their chosen mate, until they die. In other words, deny your natural impulses, deny your natural impulses again, deny your natural impulses a third time, and deny those same natural impulses for the rest of your life. Furthermore, impose these denials on others, not just yourself, because it’s not bad enough you’re a chastity fetishist, you demand that everyone else be as well. You establish this tradition through the imposition of artificial laws, artificial punishments, and shunning those who are different from you, in order to achieve a decidedly artificial level of homogeneity throughout human society.
Completely unnatural, as evolution simply cannot happen in a homogenous environment. The entire process of natural selection breaks down when the species is precisely the same. Culture is much the same way- there is no advancement of culture, or music, or art, or language, if everyone behaves entirely the same way. In fact, this entire phenomenon of religion wouldn’t exist at all if everyone thought the same way. Every modern religion began with someone having a different and new idea that went against traditional values and the opinions of the majority.
The ultimate irony is that in order for some to impose their artificial and unnatural standards upon others, and spread their artificial abstinence and artificial chastity and artificial monogamy, is that they end up arguing about how “unnatural” a natural process is. A process that exists whether there is an imposition of artificial religious values upon a person or not. Whether that person is gay or straight, their natural desires exist regardless of the artificial boundaries imposed on them by their adherence to these cultural mores. They don’t shut off. This is why people continue “sinning” even after converting and wanting to follow the path provided for them by these artificial superstitions, because in spite of societal pressure, in spite of repeated conditioning, in spite of being taught that natural things are unnatural, and in spite of the square pegs of the world sincerely trying to fit neatly in the round holes provided for them by religion, they continue to behave in their natural manner, or they continue to desire those things which they are told are wrong. Even if they tell themselves it is wrong, and even if they believe it, they still do it, or still think about it, and still want to do it.
That is the “natural” desire within oneself asserting itself over the completely baseless and artificial limitations imposed on us by people who want to remake the natural world in their supernatural image.
If **anyone **around here is “unnatural”, it’s those people who cannot seem to fathom what the word natural actually means, and go completely out of their way to denounce, deny, and demonize everything that is natural and try to replace it with their artificial values, from their man-made book of fabricated fairy tales about a supernatural God crafting the world by artificial means in ways that defy the laws of the natural world.
Scientists, on the other hand, have been able to explain the universe as a series of processes which are natural, and neither artificial or supernatural. And that natural explanation requires a lot fewer miraculous and supernatural interventions by an invisible God of the gaps, constantly intruding into the universe and fixing that which was designed correctly the first time yet still needed fixing for some reason.
The whole natural argument is so entirely backwards coming from people who believe in the supernatural. Their world is one that doesn’t keep on spinning unless there’s a man in the clouds making it happen. It is a universe of intercessory prayer and miracles and revelations and prophets and covenants, a universe which if represented by a clock, was missing all the gears, and required a hidden magical man in order to keep the hands pointed at the correct time.
The actual universe requires no hidden mover, and the gears function entirely without intervention. Otherwise, the natural processes that have been happening for the past several billion years would have stopped and we wouldn’t be here at all.
What baffles me is that people believe in a hidden magical man who created people using flawless magic, but he made them in such a way that they behaved contrary to how he wanted them to behave, and then in his infinite wisdom decided he must punish those creatures he made for behaving exactly as he designed them to do.
Something about that seems decidedly unnatural to me. I just can’t fathom a flawless being somehow finding his perfect creations to be anything less than what he hoped they’d be.
Imagining a God who made people lust for one another in ways he didn’t intend, and then gets upset at them for it, is imagining a toy maker who makes broken toys and then yells at the toys for being broken. It is imagining a psychopath as your designer, and a retarded one at that.
