It's not unusual if you consider a key aspect of religion is the controlling of personal behavior via social norms and social pressure.
If you add the fact--in the Christian religion--the selling point is one where Jesus-God's motive is saving people from pain.
So, it's hard to exert social control (using guilt/peer pressure) over a personal behavior (acting on homosexual interest/motivation) in a manner preventing emotional pain (Yes, guilt and peer-induced pain goes here as well as personally induced anxiety) when the target person isn't in pain!
No consequences to avoid equals no means of control equals confusion.
Other religions with the "vengeful" god who isn't interested in "relief" only compliance wouldn't have the problem... But that's a harder sell in a semi-humanist modern American culture...
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Date: 22 Mar 2011 21:23 (UTC)If you add the fact--in the Christian religion--the selling point is one where Jesus-God's motive is saving people from pain.
So, it's hard to exert social control (using guilt/peer pressure) over a personal behavior (acting on homosexual interest/motivation) in a manner preventing emotional pain (Yes, guilt and peer-induced pain goes here as well as personally induced anxiety) when the target person isn't in pain!
No consequences to avoid equals no means of control equals confusion.
Other religions with the "vengeful" god who isn't interested in "relief" only compliance wouldn't have the problem... But that's a harder sell in a semi-humanist modern American culture...