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Originally Posted by Daniel_
There are a number of people who believe that if you are born gay, it is God testing you.
Their thory seems to be that God doesn't like homosexuality, so he makes some people gay so that they have the chance to prove their strength by abstaining.
Sounds like a heap of crap to me, but it's how a christian friend of mine explained how some people are gay even though god doesn't like it.
All it proved for me is that there is little that a follower of a faith cannot justify (got things are a reward from heaven, bad things are a test of faith....)
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This kind of thinking (God tests us by testing/restricting how we may use free will/etc.) is one of my arguments against the existance of the traditional image of God. This implies sadism and an enjoyment of others' misery and misfortune, which are clearly traits of imperfect humans and not an all-good deity, leading me to believe that man, unable and unwilling to find explanations for that which he cannot understand or does not like0., created a God in his image to serve his purposes.