Strange Notions is a new Disqus site run by Brandon Vogt to try to discuss Rationality and Reason with Athiests. He may well succeed with some, but there is one subset of atheism he will never succeed with. On Richard Dawkin's spectrum of theistic probability , those with a score 6 and above often fall into something I term fundamentalist atheism. Many of them come from fundamentalist Christian backgrounds, if not in their generation, then within three generations of their recent past. Fundamentalist Atheism starts with the assumption that the supernatural doesn't exist and that the natural world is all there is, and runs with it, denying any data to the contrary. I've always been one to consider the natural to be a subset of the supernatural- that is the only real difference between the natural and the supernatural to me is the line of the shared scientific knowledge of mankind. A scientist, therefore, if he is to learn anything new about the universe, needs to have h...
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There was the idea it was inborn. Twin studies disproved that homosexuality was inborn. There was the theory that the brain was different. FMRI disproved that. Modern "Free Won't" theories of brain development claim that *any* temptation can be conquered by will. You just want religion to be a fantasy because it contradicts you on your denial of the logical problems with homosexuality.
In "Free won't" terms, temptation is just thoughts from the subconscious, and you can use will to defeat them, you have between 3 and 5 seconds to prevent them from turning into behavior.
Homosexuality, especially MSM, is considered an extremely high risk behavior by the CDC and the AMA- as you well know, so why are you keeping up the lie that ONLY the Catholic Church is against homosexuality? Or do you think the Center for Disease Control is a "religious institution"?