PugJesus@piefed.social to 196@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoBe gay, do crime; fuck YHWH's rulesmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square88linkfedilinkarrow-up1824arrow-down15
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minus-squarerootlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·5 months agoa soul that can choose between Good and evil, nonhumans werent created in the image of God, so they dont have it
minus-squareMulligrubs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoWhat God says is evil in the Bible is not in actuality evil, especially considering that the God of the Bible is evil.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoYou can’t divide morality in only good and evil. That’s dumb.
minus-squareSnoopSqueak@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoI mean, that is how the bible presents it. The tree provides the ability to distinguish between good and evil. It is a harmful oversimplification, especially when “good” and “evil” are undefined.
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoSo is evil defined by intention? Gay penguins aren’t evil because they aren’t choosing to be gay?
minus-squareMulligrubs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoEvil is defined by God (in Bible). So… being gay is evil, being disobedient to parents is evil, being Hindi is evil, and so on. It’s pretty detached from “evil” as it is known today (or then for that matter).
minus-squarerootlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·5 months agothey simply do not have a rational soul.
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI’m not so sure humans do either given the state of the world
a soul that can choose between Good and evil, nonhumans werent created in the image of God, so they dont have it
What God says is evil in the Bible is not in actuality evil, especially considering that the God of the Bible is evil.
You can’t divide morality in only good and evil. That’s dumb.
sorry, I oversimplified it
I mean, that is how the bible presents it. The tree provides the ability to distinguish between good and evil. It is a harmful oversimplification, especially when “good” and “evil” are undefined.
So is evil defined by intention? Gay penguins aren’t evil because they aren’t choosing to be gay?
Evil is defined by God (in Bible).
So… being gay is evil, being disobedient to parents is evil, being Hindi is evil, and so on.
It’s pretty detached from “evil” as it is known today (or then for that matter).
they simply do not have a rational soul.
I’m not so sure humans do either given the state of the world