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“God is nonbinary”: GOP activates over Talarico’s past comments characterizing him as too radical for Texas (www.texastribune.org)
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[–] 74 points 8 months ago (4 children)

You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.

Deuteronomy 32:18. This is the lot that would insist that men cannot give birth, right?

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    That's a really poor translation. It sounds more like God gave the "you" reproductivity.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    That one is very clear. Semitic scripture uses parallelism liberally for emphasis. Both “yalad” and “chuwl” mean birth, but yalad is masculine as in “fathered” while chuwl means “gave birth to.” Deuteronomy 32:18 very explicitly paints Yahweh as both father and mother of all Israelites.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Hell, yeah. A linguist enters the chat.

    So from Semitic languages, to Latin—which also can translate feminine, masculine, and anything between as three states jusr fine—to period-subjected variations of English, up to the modern day take, it should've been kept quite clear. But sometimes over a few thousand years it may have been skewed. At least enough to open up interpretation in a way that interpretation aligns with one's beliefs or desires.

    Well, I am shocked that this could happen to an Abrahamic religion /s

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