(June 25, 2016 at 4:25 pm)Ayen Wrote: The fucked up thing is there actually are gay Christians out there, and how they rationalize being part of a religion that openly bashes them everyday is beyond me. Then again, it hasn't stopped women and black people from being Christian, so why should it stop them?
Sorry to hear about the abuse. Glad you got through it all. Welcome.
Thanks for the welcome!
I guess LGBT Christians rationalize their beliefs the same way all religious people have to rationalize their beliefs. The world's leading intellectuals gave up on finding an objective foundation for theology centuries ago, and nowadays it's pretty much anything goes. Homophobes and racists help themselves to the parts of the buffet of bullshit that justify their prejudices, and liberal Christians cherrypick different doctrines.
Anytime you want to believe something that isn't in any of the religious texts, you can just pull some "creative exegesis" out of your ass, like using Genesis 1:27 to normalize cisgender heterosexual monogamy. Or you can decide Jesus was gay (that's a thing, by the way).
Or you can be a prophet and issue your own religious pronouncements. I know a transgender woman who claims to have personally heard from God, and according to her, he supports gay marriage. She's my friend, and a beautiful person, but...yeah.
A Gemma is forever.
