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[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 71 points 1 week ago

American Christians are just weird fascists a lot of the time that don’t actually follow christianity beyond telling gay people they’re going to hell. They’re fine with this.

[-] fizzle@quokk.au 18 points 1 week ago

Is being gay one of those things that people think is in the bible based on the vibe but in fact the bible doesn't express an opinion?

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago

Leviticus 18:22 ~ You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Leviticus 20:13 ~ If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

You just gotta use a different position than you do with women.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago

Christianity is supposed to be the new testament, like what Jesus preached. he was against all the old ways that are in the old testament except the ten commandments. he went so far to offend the old ways, they had him killed.

[-] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Romans 1:26-27 is not better.

[-] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Standing doggystyle is the gay road to heaven!

[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Nope, this one is in the bible (old testament), roughly in the same place where these are also listed as sins:

Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.

Do not practice divination or seek omens.

Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.

And my favorite to point out to them:

When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. 34The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Also the same book prohibits eating shrimps, and many other things that they will quickly jump to say it doesn't apply anymore, because most christians do a pick and choose of things in the bible they follow and things they don't. There's a game where you and a group of friends follow everything on the bible, the last one jailed wins.

[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

My favorite are the ones who say Genesis isn't literal because being a YEC is a step too far even for them, but then the whole point of Jesus gets awkward real fast when sin isn't real.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Ezekiel 20 also says hello:

24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.

[-] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 8 points 1 week ago

Hi, Episcopal priest here, who just so happened to do his master's thesis on the topic of reconciling same-sex marriage with traditional Christian understandings of marriage. So to give you the quick answer: no, "being gay" is not in the Bible. If you want the long answer, here's a link to a blog post I wrote about this: https://catecheticconverter.com/same-sex-marriage-and-the-church

[-] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Is there an error in that link? I can't get through for some reason

[-] Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

It absolutely states that being gay is a grave sin and even calls for death for them in the old testament. However the message of Jesus in the new testament is one of radical forgiveness and non-judgement. Jesus is not afraid of those who commit sexual sins as seen by one of his companions being a prostitute. Jesus says to love everyone, forgive everyone and only hate the sin itself, but not the sinner. Judging a person is also considered a grave sin, something many modern christians have forgotten.

Therefore there is absolutely a theological basis for allowing homosexuals to attend church, following Jesus example of himself hanging out with prostitutes, another kind of sexual sinner. And since Jesus tells you to love everyone and judge no one there is no reason to hate or shun a gay person. This also applies to other sins. If you rob a bank you can still go to church as well, with the same argument.

However if you talk to a priest or pastor of a liberal LGBTQ affirming church and ask them if gays are allowed in the church they will shout a resounding yes. But if you press them on the question of if homosexual intercourse is a sin or not they will probably get uncomfortable and may give another answer. It's a very hard biblical reality to deny.

However since you could in theory be gay and have a same sex partner and just simply not have sex with them you could give gay couples the benefit of the doubt. This is the basis for allowing gay marriage. However gay marriage stands on much more shakier grounds than simply allowing LGBTQs in the church, since marriage in the bible is explicitly stated as being between a man and a woman. Some prists/pastors however take a different route to justifying it and that involves reasoning that since God created all humans and some humans are gay, those people most have been created gay by god himself, and everything that God creates is good, therefore gays are good. This argument requires some reasoning outside the Bible but is used by many. Conservatives can attack such a stance saying it directly goes against direct bible quotes while also claiming one is not born gay but you turn gay by your own decision or others influence. Gayness would in this view be a free will sin rather than a god creates attribute.

I'm writing this comment as a non Christian who supports LGBTQ btw. Just trying to explain what I know about the discussion.

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh no the bible says kill em all. It’s one of the main bullet points.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 12 points 1 week ago

The problem is that it says it in the same general section that it talks about how to treat your slaves and things, so it's really kind of ridiculous to cherry pick this one thing as something we should uphold today while ignoring everything else.

[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Tell that to the people of Sodom.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago

Context matters. Turns out when you tell stories you kinda have to read the whole thing rather than just snippets.

[-] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

I want to know what gomorrahy is.

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago

It sure sounds like a word you can say with your mouth full though.

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