It is still considered good for a man to suppress his authentic self, if that self includes a desire for rape and murder. And there is little if any concern as to the damage one might to do himself by suppressing those desires. But if a man feels that he is not at home in his body, and is truly a woman, our society tells him that it would be harmful and even immoral in some sense to continue to live inauthentically as a man.
While you may have heard of Rousseau, Nietzsche, Darwin, and Freud, very few people have ever read their works, and yet their ideas resonate powerfully with millions across the globe, and their influence is seen almost everywhere from Disney to Playboy to your local school district.
When I think of our church, I don’t envision a building or organization, but rather people who know the Lord and want to serve Him.
God is not concerned so much about what the other guy is like, as He is about what I am like.