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IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN PERSON WHO BELIEVES IN GOD, PLEASE HELP ME AND FILL OUT FOLLOWING SURVEY. You can comment as Anonymous or you can post a comment as logged in user either way is okay to me. If you don't want your survey in public please send it me by mail: dramacirque@gmail.com . Thank you. :)
( The survey )
( The survey )
1. Your gender, age, sexual orientation, nationality and are you catholic or lutheran?
Male, 22, straight, United States of America, Roman Catholic
2. Have you always believed in God (Since your childhood, if not then when did you start to believe in God?)
Yes, though I have not always been Catholic.
YOUR OPINIONS - Please answer yes or no and please tell me does your faith influence in this subjects (EXAMPLE ANSWER FOR #3: "No, yes" means that you don't accept abortion because of your faith). You don't have to justify your opinion if you don't want to.
3. Do you accept abortion?
No,Abortion is intrinsically evil and may never be committed under any circumstance as it is the murder of an innocent person.
4. Do you regularly use alcohol? (= once a week or more)
Yes, alcohol is not evil in of itself, what is evil is the abuse of it to place yourself in a state of drunkenness, to remove yourself from the state of conscience. As G.K. Chesterton once said "let us thank GOD for beer and brandy by not drinking too much of either"
5. Do you accept passive euthanasia?
No, If by passive euthenasia you are refering to the removal of a feeding tube etc. It is never justifiable to refuse necessary bodily care to a person.
6. Do you accept active euthanasia?
No, murder is murder despite the physical and mental capacity of the person being murdered.
7. Do you accept suicide?
No, human life is GOD's greatest gift to us, to willfully destroy it, especially your own, is to refuse to accept GOD's gifts, and is a grave act of despair.
8. Do you regularly go to chuch? (= once a week or more)
I attend mass at least every Sunday, but often 2 or 3 times in addition during the week.
9. Do you accept in vitro fertilisation and artificial insemination?
No, these violate human dignity and remove the unitive function of sex. In addition the practice produces people as a commodity, creating 10 or 12 children with only the intention of implanting 1 or 2, often willfully destroying the others.
10. Do you accept sex before the marriage?
No, sex is the full expression of the marital vows, to fornicate is to lie to yourself, to your partner and to GOD through the acts of your body.
11. Do you accept women priests?
No, it is not that women ought not be priests but that they cannot. Simmilarly as a lay person I cannot bestow holy orders on someone just because I desire too, nor can a bishop, or even the pope, bestow Holy Orders upon those who GOD has not disposed to be ordained without His clear and certain Will to do so.
12. Did you accept the cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammed?
Some of them I feel were fine, some were clearly drawn to insight discord and anger. I believe that political commentary and satire is effective but only when done well and professionally. I do not feel that the problem was that Muhammed was drawn, but that he was drawn in intentionally offensive ways.
13. Should EU say no to Turkey because the country is islamic?
That should not be the rationale for disalowing a country. However it is certainly reasonable to look at the actions of the individuals in the country especially politically and the influence that Islam has upon said actions.
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14. Do you accept homosexuality (The Bible doesn't accept homosexuality: If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. Leviticus 20:13)
That is a confusing question. Homosexuality in of itself exists, I do not deny that. While I do consider homosexuality intrinsically disordered I do not feel it is intrinsically sinful. The sin occurs when the homosexual tendancies are actively persued, for example homosexual acts are sinful outright. Just as someone who is predisposed to alcoholism is disordered but not in sin, unless they actively choose to abuse alcohol.
15. Would you give to homosexuals right to marry (The Bible says that marriage is a bond between a women and a man.)
First of all, marriage is not a right legally, it is a privilege. More over, no matter what is decided upon by a human institution, eg. governments, it is not marriage. We can attempt to marry anyone to anything that we want, but unless the two marrying are a single male and female who are desiring and willfully committing to the marriage, there will not be a marriage. The only thing that will be granted in such circumstances is legal documents that have no true bearing on the sacrament of marriage. So I spose the answer is no, in that not only we shouldn't, but that we can't.
16. Would you give to homosexuals right to adopt? (Some say that a child needs a father and a mother.)
No, it is a disservice to children to not be raised in an ordered household, to have a proper influence from both father and mother.
17. Could you be a friend of a person who is same gender as you and is homosexual?
Yes, the person is not evil, their homosexual tendancies have no bearing upon the state of their soul.
18. How would you react if your child says that he/she is homosexual?
I would be sure that they truly understood what that meant. In the world today there is a lot of discussion about homosexuality and I feel that many people may be led to confusion about their feelings. If they truly felt that they were homosexual then I would be sure that they realized that it was not an evil thing but that they were bond, as all people are, to live chastely and not act upon their homosexual tendancies.
19. Do you feel that God doesn't accept homosexuality and people who are gay?
No, GOD loves all of His children. He places no extra expectations on people with homsexual tendancies than He does upon anyone else. He asks that they stay faithful to His commandments and to properly love Him and His people.
20. Do homosexuals go to hell because of their sexuality?
No, people with homosexual tendancies are not automatically condemned to hell. As with all people they will be held accountable for the actions (thoughts, words and deeds) that they chose to commit both good and evil and GOD will justly and mercifully judge them accordingly.
21. Do you have anything else to say about homosexuality, God, The Bible or about you faith?
I believe that the biggest problem with homosexuality is that people identify thsemselves by their disorder. You do not meet people that say "hello, my name is John and I am attracted to cattle". Surely because of psychological implications there is only so much an individual can do to deal with such disorders, but living a life despite them is very different than living a life for them.
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f they truly felt that they were homosexual then I would be sure that they realized that it was not an evil thing but that they were bond, as all people are, to live chastely and not act upon their homosexual tendancies.
How could you possibly do that to your own child? "Oh that's ok that you're homosexual, but you're never allowed to love and you're never allowed to have a family or be held by someone or have any sort of intimicay" I'm sorry, but that's fucking horrible.
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Further more, there are many people in the world that are called to be single their whole lives. It is not worse than people who are called to be married, just different.
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I dare you to go throughout your whole life without ever being in love or with anyone and THEN tell me it's not worse than having been with someone (not just marriage exclusively). Then you can tell me how you never felt lonely at any point nor wished to be held and touched like everyone else. To have that special someone to whom you feel complete just by being with.
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nevertheless, there are many celeibate people in the world today who are full of joy in their lives.
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Therefore, you're letting them love, but not act upon it.
Plus, just because you believe in celibacy and that homosexuality is wrong, that doesn't mean you have to force it on your children.
And this isn't just a matter of sex. Homosexual "tendencies" as you call them (which are not tendencies as that implies they go in and out of the phase and that they can actually control how they feel) ranges greatly between having a mere twinge of a feeling to being turned on by someone of the same sex to having sex with one.
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But they are called personally-not told by someone else that that is how they must be.
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and yes, I agree people should be chaste because of the will of GOD not other human beings.
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I disagree. Certainly, there is a time and place for sex, like everything else, but complete chastity for everyone? That's extreme.
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ccc 2349 "People should cultivate [chastity] in the way that is suited to their state of life. Some profess virginity or consecrated celibacy which enables them to give themselves to God alone with an undivided heart in a remarkable manner. Others live in the way prescribed for all by the moral law, whether they are married or single." Married people are called to live conjugal chastity; others practice chastity in continence:
There are three forms of the virtue of chastity: the first is that of spouses, the second that of widows, and the third that of virgins. We do not praise any one of them to the exclusion of the others. . . . This is what makes for the richness of the discipline of the Church.
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The only difference I've ever seen is that the term chastity is usually applied to women. Otherwise I don't see any difference between them.
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