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You also have the fact that concrete is stronger than wood and various other factors in consideration when compare those bridges. I'm talking about faith in beliefs unfounded in fact, based on a fundamental interpretation of a book.
Faith is the belief in concepts without the use of facts. The existance of god is "spun" from nothing. Faith in Christian mythology is belief in fairy tales. There are no facts to back it up. People walking on water, ressurecting the dead, etc. are no different than your aforementioned pink unicorns, the difference being that less people believe in the pink unicorns.
Plenty of people understand that faith isn't fact. They may choose to believe in something, but they at least recognize it's a choice on their part not based on evidence.
They have control, but they may not analyze their feelings and recognize bias in them. Lacking recognition of this bias, they do not alter their feelings beyond the prejudice they were taught.
No, it would be a poor argument to suggest that people have no such control because it's a learned reaction. In the Middle Ages, girls were frequently mothers at ages that today wouldn't even place them in high school. And you point out the characteristic of ancient Greek culture. This is because this is all learned behavior as a part of culture.
Homosexuals don't grow up in a culture where they're influenced in that manner to accept such thought. This is because we're not talking about cultural influence but biological influence here. The cultural influence is in fact the number of bisexual and homosexual individuals who marry and live heterosexual lives. It is only by analyzing their own nature that they realize that cultural influences have influenced their behavior in a manner contrary to their biology.
They do have the ability to relate sexually with a member of the opposite gender, they simply do not possess an attraction toward the opposite gender. How's that a problem? It's only a problem so far as reproduction is concerned. But it's natural, for better or worse.
One is only afraid when one does not seek to understand. Understand something and there is no need to fear it.
Jason
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