Bingowings said:
Jetrell Fo said:
Bingowings said:
Jetrell Fo said:
Bingowings said:
Only the bit that is apparently obsolete and only ever was meant for a particular people (the Israelites) at a particular point in history (between the Exodus and the coming of Christ) which advocates a violent death as a solution to acts deemed sinful to the Deity but legal to the state.
Only the bit that in some translations has been interpreted to refer to only penetrative sex between men (with one dressed as a woman) and all homosexual acts including lesbianism.
The bit that crazed evangelicals dish out whenever they want to damn something happening in the secular world which is not allowed within the closed doors of their religion (though often the speaker in question is blowing male prostitutes while high on drugs).
It's not in anyway equatable with spraying bleach into mens eyes and pouring bleach into another man's mouth.
Of course it isn't. Cuz if it was, you'd look no better than those you want to change.
Of course at least we can agree on that.
It's basic premise of "change what you don't like" is the same.
No... one is altering the emphasis away from something considered not currently relevant by believers and the other is pouring bleach into a living human being. See the subtle difference it's hard to spot I agree but it's there if you still have eyes to see it.
I agree that the physical position is different but the underlying message of both can create the same amount of damage mentally and emotionally to either side.
As far as I'm concerned the bible is as irrelevant as being gay because neither should define a persons being. We are all individuals, gay or straight. We all bleed red. We all feel pain and hurt. Either scenario creates a discord in the fabric of beings .... and we have no idea how the outcome will affect the future, regardless of what we like to think would or should happen.