Catholic teaching regarding human sexuality is very easy to find. But I’ll humor you. The purpose of sex is twofold, procreative and unitive. Gay sex is not the only type of sex that is “disapproved of”. Any sex outside of marriage is similarly disordered because it lacks the “unitive” aspect that is only possible through the commitment of marriage, as is sex within marriage that purposefully inhibits the procreative aspect.
Yes, the sexual drive is obviously for the purpose of the procreation of the species. Any natural drive can be twisted and/or abused. We need food to survive, but overeating is harmful. We need to sleep, but laziness is harmful.
Why did God make men attracted to multiple women (and men) if they are only allowed to have chaste sex with their wife?
Of course I don’t know why God does what he does, but I can speculate. Maybe because it’s good for us to learn chastity and fortitude?
I have never burned, drowned, or otherwise killed children, nor would I(if I could) turn a child into a pillar of salt or have one torn asunder by a wild bear. I also wouldn’t blame a grandchild or great-grandchild for something a parent did. Another thing I wouldn’t do is blame innocent children for playing with something dangerous and banish them from their home…especially if I was the one that placed the dangerous item within their grasp in the first place. Yet another thing I wouldn’t do is kill off someone’s family just to win a bet with a third party, then think that giving him another family makes things just hunky dory.
Do you happen to have any gods that I wouldn’t be openly ashamed to worship?
So it’s good for people to be punished when they don’t? Why would your god create people and set them up to fail and then punish them for his poor design & execution? That’s a sadist. Your god could have created people so they don’t make choices he doesn’t like, but he chose to do it the way he did: he chose people suffering. He set up the conditions for them to exist and for them to suffer. And in your view, he then just lets that happen but somehow isn’t responsible for it? :dubious:
OK, fair enough. That’s a straight answer at least.
Again, because evolutionary, men who are attracted to many women are more likely to reproduce and pass on their genes.
Got it – so Jesus wants you to learn chastity and fortitude, and to encourage you to do that, he will try his hardest to tempt you; and then if you fail, he’ll send you to hell for eternity.
You’re absolutely right, there’s no equivalent between burning for a billion years or eternity. Eternity is much worse.
Of course appropriate punishment is good for us. It corrects bad behavior. Do you have children? Were you ever a child?
I disagree with your premise. We were not set up to fail. We were given everything we needed and lacked nothing, with perfect freedom, but being human wasn’t enough. We wanted to be gods.
Even through all of the millennia of the tragedies and follies of humanity, we still have everything we need for redemption and salvation through the sacraments of the Catholic Church, thanks to God who is infinitely more patient with us than any of us would have been.
If that is true, we must have wanted to be gods because your god gave us the ability to want to be gods. I mean: he created us, right?
Mike, there’s no need for your god to be patient unless he wants to be patient. He’s all-powerful, right? He could have just made us how he wants us. But he didn’t: he chose to make us so he could punish us and cause suffering.
One thing I would definitely want for my child? That she/he turns out better than I did. Is that what the god of Genesis wanted for his “children” before they were set up for the fall?
Not a dodge. An eyeroll. Just because ancient writers may have understood God in that way, doesn’t mean they were correct. They were doing the best they could with the resources they had. As for your characterization of the Adam & Eve story :rolleyes: another eye roll.
if you’ve got an alternate Bible with the “correct” versions of all those stories, I’d love to see it. BTW-Who are you to state that all those versions are incorrect?
I’m not saying your versions of the stories are incorrect, I’m saying just because an author attributes an event as being the hand of God in action, doesn’t mean the author was factually correct about that.
