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Originally Posted by SerenityLives
I would go to my "God-given" conscience and ask myself if it's wrong or right. Which choice has the least amount of suffering for people? Example: Christian behaviors that lead vast amounts of people to commit suicide must be wrong. Something interesting is that morality and ethics is subjective based on culture and historical context. I remember taking a philosophy class in college about the ethics of cannibalism- it grossed me out to read it but under certain cultures, it was acceptable.
Below is an article about high rates of suicide among LGBTQIA raised in Christian families, which is connected with the wrong biblical interpretation of homosexual relationships that many churches have today. These interpretations still resemble medieval perspectives about sex and do not take into account the evolution of the meaning of the word "sodomy" throughout centuries.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/tra...oundly-flawed/ |
It seems to me that your idea about following your God-given conscience in a direction of inclusion compassion and love, is a higher vision of Christianity than the ones that push people toward suicide. The Spirit calls us to find the balance between reverence for tradition and authentic ethical innovation.
How about this? "We are here to be the site of the sacred marriage of heaven and earth of the primordial light and matter to be the place where fusion of all dimensions is affected so that divine passion through us can remake and reshape every arena and institution, every art and science of the world." (Andrew Harvey quoting an anonymous kabbalist in the forward to Zohar, translation and annotation by Daniel C. Matt)