> If you think God is telling you to do something you already want to do ... maybe it's not God talking.
Very relevant in this case, no doubt about it. But this logic is also used to convince victims of spiritual abuse to endorse and replicate that abuse, sometimes for generations. In the end, this sort of generalization can never resolve a real ethical question, and to claim that any person will go through life without confronting such is a disgusting lie.
We have the capacity and the duty to judge the ethics of an action for ourselves. If someone finds that capacity has been stunted by their upbringing, then they have my sympathy, but that upbringing has unambiguously served them badly.
> If you think God is telling you to do something you already want to do ... maybe it's not God talking.
Very relevant in this case, no doubt about it. But this logic is also used to convince victims of spiritual abuse to endorse and replicate that abuse, sometimes for generations. In the end, this sort of generalization can never resolve a real ethical question, and to claim that any person will go through life without confronting such is a disgusting lie.
We have the capacity and the duty to judge the ethics of an action for ourselves. If someone finds that capacity has been stunted by their upbringing, then they have my sympathy, but that upbringing has unambiguously served them badly.