There is a disease, I forget the name, but it causes humans to always be hungry (well, starving actually) regardless of if they have recently consumed the entire all you can eat bar. As you might imagine, it’s a horrible condition, and family members in many cases resort to literally locking up available food, as overeating has both short term as well as long term consequences.
It’s is also said that gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins that will send you to hell for eternity.
Do you think a person with this disease who, because of the disease, is in fact gluttonous would be sent to hell for that?
No, I don’t either.
To me, homosexuality is the same thing. Homosexuals are not responsible for their condition any more than the disease I mentioned above.
You described the medical condition called Prader-Willi Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that explains insatiable appetite leading to morbid obesity and early death. My cousin’s daughter had said disorder and died at 25. It’s a genuine medical condition not equivalent to the sin of gluttony, which is willful uncurbed craving or lust for food and drink. I doubt that people who suffer the former (a condition) and those who choose the latter (a lifestyle) without repentance would be sent to the same place for eternity on Judgment Day.
It’s relevant that you mentioned the capital sins, gluttony being one of the seven. Gluttony is closely related to greed, the insatiable craving to accumulate money (like Bernard Madoff) and things (Mike Tyson buying a bigger and bigger home), or lust for sex with multiple partners. These are sins, involving immoral acts, and are not diseases. People conveniently remove responsibility from such actions because it would be easier to blame a condition or a disease than to re-direct personal choices towards what is good and beneficial.
As for homosexuality, science has not proven that there is a gene that explains its etiology, notwithstanding all the studies that have been undertaken to date. It cannot be denied that there is a segment in the population with this inclination or feeling of attraction to the same sex. When someone acts on the inclination, there is an element of choice involved. It is wrong, like when someone has an unhealthy proclivity for incest, to which an individual should not give in. Even if two parties consent to engage in an incestuous relationship, it does not mean it is okay to do.
That homosexual behavior is a choice is hard for people to accept because they don’t want it to be true.
Seeker, some posters in this forum may think you put forth clever arguments and analogies in favor of same sex acts. You just wish that you can convince people to just relax their morals and the undeniable natural laws that guide them, so wanton sex with anyone and everyone in unnatural ways, as long as it is consented to, would be made acceptable. This is licentiousness, not real freedom.
Man is the highest of all creation, capable of critical thought and action to a higher level above the ability of beasts, beyond immediate gratification or pleasure.
Whether you wish to face it or not, there is a reward for living a life guided by morals and a price to pay for sins in life after death. It is the consequence of free will, which you and I have.
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