| jigokutamago said: Remember that lust is one of the seven deadly sins, so from my point of view, Christianity disagrees with any activity solely for the pursuit of sexual desire, heterosexual or not. I'm sure a religion that teaches that "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" would not want people to hate anyone for any reason. Also, some of the problems people have this older religious writings can be attributed to the fact that they were written thousands of years ago. Please consider these writings in the context of their times. |
I will not. Because those writings are supposed to be the word of God, objective, and timeless.
"Man's law will change. God's law is always the same"
Meaning the "context of the times" is irrelevant, since scriptures, being "holy", "transcend time" and are "always right".
I hate that "context of the times" is used to justify that the Bible condoning things like slavery, because "it was a different time and doesn't apply to today's world" but then flip the script and use the Bible to enforce anti-homosexual sentiments because "This is God's word". Either it's right about everything, being the divine word of the creator, or people are just picking and choosing what to believe and adhere to. But if you're picking and choosing, that means you have a moral compass independent of the Bible that tells you that invading a country, killing all the men and children, livestock, agriculture....but keeping the virgin women "alive for yourselves" (I'm not making this up, either)...is wrong.
But then, don't use that same compass to say homosexuality is wrong "because the Bible says so".
