RE: Has anyone ever found a way to reconsile being Gay/Bi/Lesbien and being a Christian?
February 14, 2013 at 1:12 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2013 at 1:12 am by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
There's a minority of Christians who interpret passages that are normally read as condemning homosexualty as actually condemning ancient practices such as pedestry, ritual sex, bestality etc. And there's some scholarly support behind these readings. Some interpretations are more questionable than others.
Really a lot of passages on sexuality we can't know for sure what is actually being said. But fundies don't like uncertainty and dogamatically preach on what in many cases is just a guess.
Like does Matt 5:28 really condemn "lust" or is it just condemning the desire to have sex with someone else's wife? The former would make all sex including masturbation outside marriage sinful but the latter is just saying to not jack off to your neighbor's wife. There are good reasons to read it as the latter but there are also good reasons to read it as the former. Who knows?
Really a lot of passages on sexuality we can't know for sure what is actually being said. But fundies don't like uncertainty and dogamatically preach on what in many cases is just a guess.
Like does Matt 5:28 really condemn "lust" or is it just condemning the desire to have sex with someone else's wife? The former would make all sex including masturbation outside marriage sinful but the latter is just saying to not jack off to your neighbor's wife. There are good reasons to read it as the latter but there are also good reasons to read it as the former. Who knows?
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
