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[–] 15 points 1 year ago* (49 children)

Given that, according to your comment history, you think "homosexuality is morally wrong", I don't think you're going to find much sympathy here. On the whole, Lemmy has little patience for regressive ideology.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago (48 children)

    I was talking in terms of my religious beliefs. If you aren't a Christian, my opinion doesn't concern you.

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  • [+] 4 points 1 year ago* (5 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I encourage you to look it up for yourself. The English translations are pretty unequivocal, though there are those who insist they are miss-translated.

    That insistence has not resulted in any of the major English translations shooting different wording.

    https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/bible-verses-about-homosexuality/

    Is a good list.

    Of course, none of that matters because gay people should have more rights than any book.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Bible is pretty clear.

    1 Corinthians 6:9

    Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

    Romans 1:26-27

    For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

    As for the "hot and cold", that type of thing is up for interpretation, although I hold that hot water is good and so is cold water. I believe that's what Jesus was referring to.

    The "Camel through an eye of a needle" with the "eye of the needle" being a gate is a total myth made up by the rich to try and justify their greed. Jesus meant what we read it as today. For extra clarification, the original greek even refers to the word "needle" with different words, one is surgical, I believe the other one is fishing related. So it couldn't be a place. Jesus meant what He said - it is easier for a camel to go through an eye of a needle than a rich person to get into heaven.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Unfortunately, lately Christians have done nothing but fucking make their religious beliefs a concern to me so no. You are dead ass wrong. After having drinks thrown at me, guns pulled on me, being spat at, cussed out, followed around in my car, kicked out of dog parks, and up rooting my entire fucking life to move to a safer place: I'm not a Christian and your opinion concerns the fuck out of me.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Why would my personal beliefs concern you?

    I haven't thrown a drink at you, pulled a gun, spat at you, cussed at you, followed you in your car or kick you out of a dog park. Nor have I done that to anyone. And I'll condemn anyone I find doing it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Same way you'll condemn the gays yes?

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So you hate religious people, why does anyone need to hear about it?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Perhaps not yours personally, but Christians' in general sure do, because they're always trying to shove their religious beliefs into governmental policy. People are dying right now because of the obviously Christian abortion ban in the US.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    As a Christian, gtfo with homophobia. All people are made in Gods image and so to condemn the gay and transgender people is to condemn the Lord. Take one of the greatest commandments seriously: love thy neighbour.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    One of the greatest commandments. But it's not the greatest. The greatest is to love the LORD your God with all of your heart, soul, mind and strength. That means loving Him more than any human and not engaging in relationships that dishonour Him.

    Everyone has sinned and yet is made in God's image. No human is not made in God's image. Does that mean that we shouldn't have a definition of right and wrong? By no means!

    I never said to hate your neighbour.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    Don't care. If you cannot obey loving thy neighbour then you're not a true Christian.

    Loving your God means to love thy neighbour, that is what Jesus says. Quite literally citing from the motherfucking Bible:

    "There is no commandment greater than these.”

    If you wish to argue further with me, go first treat gay and transgender people with due respect as a true Christian should. If you cannot do that, then you are no longer a Christian.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I never said we should not treat gay and transgender people with due respect.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    engaging in relationships that dishonour Him.

    Your idea of due respect is saying that being gay is dishonoring god?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    According to the Bible, engaging in homosexual activity is dishonouring God.

    I'm just saying what the Bible says.

    Romans 1:26-27

    For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    The Bible says lots of things.

    Should adulterers be put to death?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    John 8:1-11

    but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    God is so infallible he changes his mind on what is right and wrong, but let's treat a snapshot in time of his teachings from a couple thousand years ago as eternally true!

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    So if you aren't a Christian, why do you care? We don't need to conform to your beliefs.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    When Christians stop using their religion to force laws onto the general populace I will stop caring.

    I don't care about the other religions that aren't popular enough to do that here, just the one that negatively impacts me and the people around me.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago*

    I'm not doing that. I already said that. You still took issue.

    1 Corinthians 5:12 ESV

    For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Well I think any "Christian" that thinks that God judges people for being gay is a Devil worshipper. Hate is the domain of Satan, not a benevolent God. There is a word for a being that would make people a certain immutable way and then judge them harshly for it. That word is Evil. You fundamentally believe in an evil, demonic god.

    You're not a Christian. You're a Devil worshipper. And you will burn in Hell for your sins.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    How do you define evil in that case? Lol.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Seeing people as a means to an end rather than an ends unto themselves. A basic lack of human empathy and respect for human dignity. Jesus was a brown socialist who hung out with queers, prostitutes, and social outcasts. That fact should inform any form of Christian ethics.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    He kept telling them not to sin

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (9 children)

    He also made them gay.

    Oh, and he made them in his image along with everyone else so god must be Pan.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    God also made billionaires desire money. Doesn't mean that them acting on their desires is right.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    Greed is taught, not something you are born with.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    So a toddler stealing food from his twin is taught behaviour?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (5 children)

    A toddler wanting something isn't greed. How the older children and adults around them respond and teach the child determines whether they turn out to be greedy as they develop because they have to be taught that they shouldn't take from others. Same as how physical contact like striking someone is either reinforced or discouraged, doing the wrong thing while finding out what is right and wrong when there is not an inherent biological urge behind the behavior is how humans develop.

    Sexuality is one of the few things that we are born with and not the result of what we are taught.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Cheating on your partner is unacceptable but that urge is still biological and stemmed from your sexuality. Doesn't mean adultery is okay in the eyes of God. God didn't make you commit adultery. "My sexuality made me do it" isn't an excuse.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Monogamy as a concept is a social construct, and cheating if you choose monogamy is NOT a biological urge.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How is it not a biological urge? If you see someone more appealing than your wife

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    I'm a Christian! Did you know that the church in Ethiopia was started by a non-binary person? Gender and sexuality used to be very different social constructs in biblical times and modern views on gender and sexuality didn't come around in full force until around 300 years ago.

    It's a real shame that the church in general tends to reject the LGBT community. Science has shown over and over again that sexual identity and gender identity are inherent parts of people, and it makes no sense to me how God can hate something that he designed.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Source on the Ethiopian church?

    Matthew 19:4-5

    He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

    Gender did exist in biblical times

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Acts 8:27-28 NRSV [27] So [Phillip] got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship [28] and was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

    Here's a story about a eunuch returning home from Jerusalem. Eunuchs back then were seen as 'between' male and female. They were able to go between the men's Chambers in the women's Chambers freely, and so they were very useful in courts. Not all Eunuchs were in the courts though.

    According to church tradition this very Eunuch founded the Ethiopian Church. And so it is very possible for non-binary people to be followers of Christ.

    Of course we can't fall into the pitfall of applying modern sexuality and gender theory on ancient cultures, as they have a very different set of social institutions.

    Some theologians of years past have suggested that the passage which is alluded to in Genesis might have a different meaning.

    Genesis 2:23 NRSV [23] Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.”

    This taken in conjunction with the passage that you quoted, can be interpreted very differently. Woman was taken out of man, meaning that Man was once both male and female at the same time, and yet perfect as all of God's creation was.

    Jesus never explicitly condemns Eunuchs or other groups of gender non-conforming people. I would not take this passage to exclude everything else from the life giving blood shed for us on the cross

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Eunuchs were men, though. They were castrated so were seen as less of a threat. I do not think we can compare eunuchs to non-binary/gender-non-conforming people of today.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't think that's the case

    Matthew 19:12 NRSV [12] For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”

    Jesus mentions two types of eunuchs here. Those who are made, and those who are born as eunuchs. The latter, those who are born as eunuchs are what we today call intersex people.

    Intersex people have ambiguous sex characteristics and are born that way. Intersex people make up around 1.7% of the population, around the same amount as people who have red hair. They are pretty distinct. Sometimes they can have male genitalia and female sex hormones, while still others can have ambiguous genitalia. Others still have male chromosomes when being phenotypically female.

    Not every one of these was included in the term Eunuch, as they aren't always visible traits. But many of these traits were visible so they were seen as distinct from men. Oftentimes they're born that way.

    (An aside while it's on my mind, Jesus tells us that marriage is overrated in this passage. I think we neglect our single church members a lot, seeing as there doesn't seem to be much space for them outside of the context of marriage. And this passage says that marriage isn't for everyone)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I always interpreted this as referring to asexual people, not intersex people

    I think we neglect our single church members a lot, seeing as there doesn't seem to be much space for them outside of the context of marriage

    True

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