JAK wrote:harmony wrote:JAK wrote:Bond...James Bond wrote:Imwashingmypirate wrote:Might I say your post has made me think. WOW. I always thought homosexuality is disgusting and wrong but when I look at your prison statement, it is actually true. People (especially men) must fulfil their sexual needs somehow. It is instinct.
They could always masturbate....(talk about trying to decipher the lesser of two evils:masturbation or male homosexual sex?)
This is more sarcasm is it Bond?
If not, why do you characterize as “evils”?
Why not call these distinctions between joys?
JAK
Because the LDS church defines them as evil and sin.
The LDS church is irrelevant to definitions. Any and every religious group makes up its own mythology. Those mythologies do not agree on many aspects of “sin” and a wide variety of other claims.
Your statement is hardly an address of causality.
The LDS church calls drinking coffee “sin.” It’s equally irrelevant.
Is war “sin”? Is participation in a military system as an instrument of death “sin”? Some religious myths would say it is. The Quakers, for example, would call deliberate killing of people “sin” at the order of a goverment.
Sex or sexual experiences are hardly on the same scale as deliberate killing of other humans for any reason.
Hence, any notion of “sin” is relative. It’s relative to time, to place, and to circumstances in any religious myth concept.
JAK
You asked why Bond called it a sin here. I answered the question. Just because you don't like the answer doesn't make the answer wrong. And according to the LDS church, sexual "experience" (all sex outside of marriage qualifies) is a sin second only to murder. So yes, it is on the same scale, your protestations notwithstanding, and it does have relevance... here. (This place is called Mormon Discussions for a reason, JAK).