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Alterego-X on 03 February 2010
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highwaystar101 said:

It states in Levicitus (The book that condemns homosexuality) that I can't eat shellfish, I should own slaves, I should not wear clothes made of two materials, women are lesser than men, Bats are actually just birds in a cunning disguise, and that I should sacrifice, well, a whole fucking menagerie of animals to appease God. Oh and that I should stone people who don't follow it to death.

I found this and it points out all the absurdities in levicitus (there's a long version too). The vast majority of which I imagine most Christians just brush aside anyway. I mean how many Christians do you know who sacrifice a lamb or two turtles and two doves during a child's birth to keep the mother pure? Yet it goes on about that verse after verse after verse, far more than it talks about homosexuality.

Do Christians sacrifice animals so often during childbirth? Because it's clearly just as important (according to Levicitus) to sacrifice countless animals than to be heterosexual. Does the pope condemn people for not bringing lambs into hospital and killing them in front of the midwife?

No. What I think it is, is selective reading.

Most Christians would probably argue that Christ's death ended the Old Testament, fulfilled the law, and started the salvation by grace. As Paul says:

Acts 13 :39:"And by Him (Jesus) all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the Law of Moses" 

 

So these are just old legal writings for ancient jews, and we should move on, the only rules still active are the ones about how we should love our neighbour, and our God, and stuff like that.

 

Though, Paul also says this:

Romans 1:26-27: "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."

 

And again, one could argue that these are just rules for ancient romans, and we should again move on.