Leviticus also says a bunch of really wack stuff. If I'm not mistaken you CAN'T eat shellfish (So anybody who eats shrimp is going to hell) and CAN'T associate with a womyn who is on her period...pretty stupid stuff.
The sections with Sodom are also pretty vague in their references to homosexuality and don't provide an exclusive reason for believing that homosexuality is the reason the city was destroyed (the text mentions that there were rapists, thieves, etc. in the city as well).
Even the linguistic analysis of the words that supposedly relate to homosexuality are pretty vague and if you follow explicit translation from the original Greek version they don't make any sense for the homosexuality thing...
a.) Joe Scarborough was not defending homosexuality. He's an ultraconservative that believes gays shouldn't get married.
b.) Bill Maher said that descrimination against homosexuals stems from religion, i.e. The Bible. Scarborough then said that there is nothing in the bible that condemns homosexuality. I was mearly pointing out the retardedness of yet another conservative.
c.) I don't need to be lectured on the relivance of the 316 laws in the old testament. The no-homo's law being one of them. Others being that a woman is unclean for 7 days during her menstral cycle, as is anyone or anything she touches. Men are also "unclean until evening" when he has "an emission of seed."
As I said, I'm a homo that went to catholic school for 13 years... I wasn't saying that homosexuality was wrong, mearly that Joe Scarborough's comment was wrong. I probably should have provided some context prior to the quote.
I have to agree with ya Matt...It gets on my last nerve when people take the Bible word for word. Like you said, whatever the case it was written by man...not God. Secondly, it's been through many translations, all of which can come to mean different things as there is no perfect translation between two languages...and lastly, it's so not in context with today's society and culture (as you said). I think the Bible is great, has a lot of good stuff in there, but when you take it word for word and pick and chose what parts you want to be significant that's just not fair...i mean for the longest time they justified slavery by quoting the Bible...c'mon now...
oh jesus fucking christ.... anyone that knows me knows that I put as much belief into the bible as I put into a Dr. Suess book. I've always said it should be shelved in Fiction, and if alphabetical by author then it should be under "S" for "Sexist Pigs."
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The sections with Sodom are also pretty vague in their references to homosexuality and don't provide an exclusive reason for believing that homosexuality is the reason the city was destroyed (the text mentions that there were rapists, thieves, etc. in the city as well).
Even the linguistic analysis of the words that supposedly relate to homosexuality are pretty vague and if you follow explicit translation from the original Greek version they don't make any sense for the homosexuality thing...
So yeah...the bible doesn't mention it. Period.
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a.) Joe Scarborough was not defending homosexuality. He's an ultraconservative that believes gays shouldn't get married.
b.) Bill Maher said that descrimination against homosexuals stems from religion, i.e. The Bible. Scarborough then said that there is nothing in the bible that condemns homosexuality. I was mearly pointing out the retardedness of yet another conservative.
c.) I don't need to be lectured on the relivance of the 316 laws in the old testament. The no-homo's law being one of them. Others being that a woman is unclean for 7 days during her menstral cycle, as is anyone or anything she touches. Men are also "unclean until evening" when he has "an emission of seed."
As I said, I'm a homo that went to catholic school for 13 years... I wasn't saying that homosexuality was wrong, mearly that Joe Scarborough's comment was wrong. I probably should have provided some context prior to the quote.
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