A believer uses the Word of God as the judge and code for conduct and not his "FEELINGS." Read what the Bible has to say and not what you think! And as for "Gay" marriage: Children are a gift and a blessing from God according to the Bible, and yet not one "homosexual" couple has ever begotten children through a homosexual relationship. They must revert to a heterosexual union to produce children. So what Biblical purpose is there for "gay" marriage. Unless churches can find it, I feel the Word of God TOTALLY condemns such. And the churches that promote it will reap what they have made up through their own judgment....
You’re a “believer” in one of many asserted gawds, none of which have ever made themselves known in a way understandable to humans. And, let’s be honest, you are, vastly more likely than not, a believer in your partisan gawds for no other reason than familial connections and geographic location. How arbitrary is that?
People chose what their theistic beliefs are for many reasons, but rarely do they apply very hard standards to those reasons. They tend to be cultural (i.e., you grew up in a social environment that preferred one belief over another or you accept the beliefs of your parents. If you truly dig deep into what allows you to believe, you will find there is no clear reason to believe as you do-- the differing paradigms out there do not make a single case that rises above the others. In other words, there is no reason to believe Christianity over Islam over Buddhism over Judaism over Hinduism.
So, contrary to your claim, your beliefs really are nothing more than "FEELINGS".
The bible clearly separates the Christian philosophy from the others all one has to do is research the bible before making blanket statements lacking any evidence to support the blanket statements.
The same can be said for the ideological view of naturalism.
Nonsense. Christianity is simply a distillation of earlier religions, pagan beliefs and rituals that preceded it.
From an entirely demonstrable perspective, the majority of people have simply accepted the religion that is dominant within their culture. They go about their daily lives and the majority religion they have accepted has minimal to no real impact. Billions go through their rituals and really their religious beliefs are more or less like a second nature they really give no second thought to. It simply is the way it is for them. Honestly, how many theists do you know who could even assess the problem of Pascal's Wager, let alone have even heard of it?
Interestingly, if one tries to live according to strict Biblical law (and if one believes that the Judeo-Christian gawds are in fact “the” gawds, then one **must** obey these laws), modern society would imprison you for life, if not out and out sentence you to death (interesting irony: the Bible is used to support the death penalty, but if one follows to the letter what the Bible says you must as the gawd's law, you would incur the very penalty the Bible is used to support!).
So we can see that people select those ethics that they are comfortable with, and merely ignore the rest. This is tremendously arbitrary, and outright foolish. It also is evidence that the Bible is the **last** book one should use to support any ethical foundations.
As to naturalism, your comments are nonsensical. Naturalism has the obvious advantage of being testable and demonstrable.
You have yet to explain to us how anyone can test the supermagical / supernatural environment of your particular, partisan gawds.