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Ironically the verse was mistranslated- it was a man who lays with a boy
https://www.advocate.com/religion/2022/12/17/how-bible-error-changed-history-and-turned-gays-pariahs
Unfortunately not mistranslated, but for sure another outdated thing to ignore. I heard it was probably discouraging people from joining a nearby cult thing in Egypt that had male male acts, which sounds like it was more about religious competition than homosexuality, but I’m no expert.
Except it was mistranslated? There’s been quite a few studies showing it
Nice try Ai Spy boy.
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Iirc, the hebrew word that gets translated to ‘lay’ is also a pretty suspect translation. Its only other usage in the OT (and our only other known context for it) is to describe a man pursuing his wife’s servant, and contextually, is more likely to mean ‘molest’ or ‘rape’ than to describe consensual sex.
The 2 words translated to ‘man’ are also different- the first being ‘ish’ the second being ‘zachar’
While both can generally refer to anyone male, ish can be used in the context of ‘anyone’, or ‘husband/ man of the house’, whereas Zachar is often used biblically to refer to young males, and /or subordinates.
So put together, this passage is likely ‘nobody should be molesting boys,’ or ‘a master shouldn’t rape his servants or children’
Of course it was. Of course Christianity took a line intended to protect children from abuse and “mistranslated” it to be homophobic.
Well it is also very important for Christians that molesting boys is just “oopsies” but not gay.
Considering how in the original Greek text of the New Testament the Apostles were all described as being between 10 and 19 years of age hanging out with 30-something year old Jesus, and how Jesus’ crucifixion was a result of him being caught in the middle of the night in the Garden of Gesthemane (Mark 14:51-52) with a naked boy, yeah I’d say they have a complicated relationship with gay molestation of the underage.
Certainly not the mainstream view taught in church but classical philologist Dr. Ammon Hillman has the receipts.
yeah because they cared so much
stop those disgusting apologetics
Huh? What was I apologizing for? The passage is mistranslated in English, wtf are you on about?
The “mistranslation” is a disgusting myth, the bible and the primitives who wrote it didn’t give a fuck about pedophilia and you should not spread this disgusting lie. Reported.
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Mordekaiser? What are you doing here?
Question: does fucking a parallel universe self count as being gay? Does it count as incest? Self-cest?
What about fucking yourself from an hour ago through time travel? Are you double-gay? Does that means you can use a Uno +2 card on the catholic priest?
I don’t think the Bible actually says that, but it would be funny
CONE not CORN,
DUMMY
The Bible is open to interpretation
I interpret it as a mid fantasy book. The epilogue is fucking boring as hell.
The modern translation is a fairytale but if you get into the original Greek bible texts and supporting and opposing texts from Greco-Roman civilization it paints a very interesting picture of the corruption of the ancient world into the situation we call Western Civilization today. Hopeful eras where humanity improved like the Renaissance and the American Revolutionary War were in large part due to study and reemergence of pre-Christian pagan ideas from Greek antiquity.
Of course Christians are absolutely fine with people being gay.
After all, they’re the ones down on their knees hoping for a man to come for the second time.
Something something corn hole, giggity.
And God, despite being male presenting, identifies as non-binary. Per them/thier own words, God created at least three genders.
It is an interesting story, but I don’t think the Gay community is being helped by bibles quotes. Hateful people quote the bible to publicly justify their hate, but its not why they hate. The hate comes from within and will be justified in a million different ways.
If you corrected all the bibles today, automagically, a new prophet will suddenly appear to reveal god’s wisdom to kill gays tomorrow and a new religion will be born.
I have experience with this myself. In my country it was rare with black people when I grew up, and there was a lot of actual racism. I was also racist back then because I didnt like black people coming to my country. They were different and annoying. I didnt see any positives with it.
But as more and more black people have arrived in the country, millions of them, they are everywhere. And almost nobody is racist anymore. Its normal for everyone who grows up now. Nobody thinks about it.
So it will be the same with gay people. It will take time but eventually, the generations who grew up with many gay people around wont hate it at all, or think about it. It always happens with time.
