Just curious.
Evil is man's default setting
If by “evil” you mean “ devoid of any moral or ethical boundaries or restraint of conscience”, this is just demonstrably untrue.
The default setting of human beings is general compliance to societal boundaries and guidelines. In any population there is a subset of individuals who have little to no capacity for empathy or compassion, or awareness of harm caused to others. This group represents roughly 5% of the population and are known as sociopaths and psychopaths.
Might as well posit that heterosexuals can somehow train themselves to become attracted to the same gender.
The default setting of human beings is general compliance to societal boundaries and guidelines.
Gay folk are still gonna be gay.
and adulterers are still gonna be adulterers
and pedophiles are still gonna be pedophiles
and rapers are still gonna be rapers
Exactly - and when the societal boundaries and guidelines told the Volksgemeinschaft that the life of the Jew was without value and must be exterminated, they were happy to be compliant
and adulterers are still gonna be adulterers
and pedophiles are still gonna be pedophiles
and rapers are still gonna be rapers
Just curious.
And you see all of these offenses as morally equivalent?
My reference to societal boundaries was to the universal and innate moral guidelines of harm reduction and fairness-- which the vast majority of the human population adhere to, more often than not.
human beings by default adhere to basic moral guidelines and are not completely lawless.
They were born ex-gay, but it took them awhile to realize it.
No matter what you are to start with, what you decide to be is what you're "born" with.
This works with Christians, especially. That's why we are "born again", because we realize that we are in need of a rebirth--that our sin, that some say (perhaps correctly) we were born with, is not how God intended us to be defined. Thus gays, perhaps born in their sins, can be reborn into a new life in Jesus Christ. So ex-gays, as a prime example, are indeed "born" (reborn) that way.
A 1,000 years of authoritative Church teaching, conspiracy theories, scapegoating myths and bigotry ...
Might as well posit that heterosexuals can somehow train themselves to become attracted to the same gender.
As you learned, your (british) government did a study that proved just that - that heterosexuals can indeed train themselves to become attracted to the same gender.
Just curious.