• ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de
    741·
    1 year ago

    Funny how bible thumpers are always focusing on very specific portions of the bible to justify their hatred, but completely ignore the tons of other horrific bullshit that they are also guilty of.

    • nuzkie@lemmy.world
      451·
      1 year ago

      Meanwhile complaining that atheists are cherry picking specific portions of the bible

      • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
        172·
        1 year ago

        Nothing makes me roll my eyes harder than amoral Evangelicals telling me that I can’t have values and morals if I’m not religious.

        Listening to a hate-preacher denounce and proscribe their list of enemies is not self-improvement, but the conservative persecution fetish is the secret sauce of Christian Nationalism. Following a prescriptive list of rules is not morality either, but it’s much easier to control people by reducing gradient situations to black-and-white “abortion is murder” style slogans.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    391·
    1 year ago

    What is that sign even trying to convey? Pretty sure stick person is just spotting a squat.

    (I mean I get it- they’re being raised as bigots. Apparently by illiterate bigots.)

  • MuuuaadDib@lemm.ee
    281·
    1 year ago

    Been hearing a lot about grooming, that sure looks like it. Psychos shouldn’t breed.

  • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
    211·
    1 year ago

    God does hate fags. Seriously, quit smoking, and stop throwing your butts out your car window. It’s bloody disgusting.

        • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          You got me curious now. I know the unfiltered I smoked would breakdown in a compost heap and in wastewater treatment I wonder how many types out there dont.

          • ccdfa@lemm.ee
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yeah I don’t smoke anymore but I used to buy just plain tobacco, roll it in normal cigarette paper, and use 100% cotton filters. I threw my stuff away in the trash still, but I felt better about the waste anyway

          • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            The filters are made from some type of polymerized nature fiber (cellulose?). So while cellulose will decompose, the polymerization does something that makes them last forever.

            My ex would smoke on the back porch and throw her butts into the grass. Seriously pissed me off.

    • remotelove@lemmy.ca
      41·
      1 year ago

      Leviticus 20:13: “If a man has intercourse with a man as with a woman, both commit an abomination. They must be put to death.”

      That is one quote that I could find. There are probably more.

      Edit: But wait, there’s more…

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

      Romans 1:26-27, Corinthians 6:9-10, Timothy 1:9-10, etc, etc.

      That bible is a really hateful book, for sure. It’s mind boggling how anyone could be gay and christian. Mental gymnastics to 11, I suppose.

      Universal christianity rules apply: Always pick and choose your scriptures.

      • Teon@kbin.social
        123·
        1 year ago

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

        This is about having sex as an offering to god, in the temple. Substituting a man in place of a woman is the abomination. Not just having sex in general with a man. Also, Leviticus applies to the Levites and the Levitican clergy.

        There is literally NOTHING in the bible that says homosexuality is wrong. But it does fully endorse incest and genocide.

        CC: @TheCheddarCheese

      • Madlaine@feddit.de
        93·
        1 year ago

        All I can read out of these citations:

        If you fuck a women you are not allowed to fuck a man the same way.

        So you have to reserve certain female-only and male-only positions, or you go to hell; or better: Just don’t fuck women and you have no other restrictions

        • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
          91·
          1 year ago

          It’s not a creative reading exercise though.

          All the other believers seem to understand that “don’t lie with a man as you do with a woman” isn’t a bunch of loopholes you can navigate by arguing semantics. It is a “don’t be gay” commandment.

          The bible does support homophobia. And that’s okay, most large religions are homophobic, I just find it silly to pretend otherwise.

          Religion and progressive values do not mix. Which is why I find anyone seeking their acceptance seriously misguided.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Just to add on. Sodom and Zeke referencing it. For bonus points you can consult the writings of the people alive when these rules were being enforced like Philo and Josphius.

    • Veraxus@kbin.social
      18·
      1 year ago

      Nope. I’ve written about this at length, as it’s one of many things in scripture that requires a significant amount ignorance and/or bad faith to mistranslate as “gay is bad”.

      In Leviticus there is a part of a laundry list of household incest laws that reads “A man shall not lay with a male as with a woman.” The phrasing is extremely specific and particular. Why “male” and not just “man”? Why is “as with a woman” added when the command would be perfectly clear without it? What does that addition mean? Why is there no mention of women and women?

      This is easy: this command was never intended for us (gentiles living thousands of years later in dramatically cultures), so we can easily miss a massive amount of important context. In the middle east thousands of years ago, if you - a man - wanted a bride or a concubine, you BOUGHT one. You owned her. If you already owned a female slave, you could freely rape her or force her into marriage or concubinage. The prohibition is not a blanket statement on consensual equal gay relationships, it was about not being allowed to rape your male chattel slaves, who had more inherent rights than the female ones.

      It’s also important to point out that these laws were handed only to the Israelites who had left Egypt and wandered the desert, ostensibly (according to YHWY, per the same scripture) to guarantee the tribes survival until they could establish a new homeland.

      Paul also writes about this once, using a greek colloquial term that translates literally to “male-bedders”, making it parallel to Leviticus in terms of meaning. This appears to be condemnation of pederasty as well, not a condemnation of consensual equal gay relationships.

      And yes, the historical circumstances surrounding all that is no heinous to any modern audience… but for different reasons than modern Xtians paint.

      P.S. This is not a defense of many awful, gut-churning stories in scripture - merely an explanation of this one specific topic within it’s own social, cultural, and historic context and scope.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah except it commands that both be put to death which wouldn’t make sense if it was raping a boy. Especially since the Bible also says not to kill someone raped.

        Secondly the exodus didn’t happen.

        Third Paul condemns it twice and no matter what games you play with the translation it still comes out to don’t be gay.

        Fourth if it was a bad on child molestation why not just say it? There are words in Hebrew and Greek for child.

        • Veraxus@kbin.social
          11·
          1 year ago

          I am not defending the ethics of the context, as I said before.

          Consent has no place in Levitical law. It simply not a variable. Rape your daughter-in-law or consensual sex… doesn’t matter, death to both. Rape or consensual sex with an aunt? Death to both. Screw an animal? Also death to both. Force one of your male slaves (of any age) to have sex with you the way you would freely do with a female slave (which would be your right)… death to both of you. These are “household” crimes and the household pays the price.

          None of this is based on your modern morality, ethics, or sense or fairness or justice. It was written for you.

          The framework for all this is actually clarified earlier, in Lev 19:20… in which crimes against someone else’s household (i.e. slaves) does NOT result in death.

          I also already addressed Paul in my previous comment. Your assertion is incorrect.

          • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            1. Didn’t acknowledge what I said about the Exodus

            2. You haven’t even attempted to mention what neighboring tribes said about the same thing or what people who lived under these rules had to say

            3. Didn’t acknowledge what Paul said. Very clear that he was upset about people being gay. Even if you say it was added on that wouldn’t change anything from the Christian perspective since about half the letters are fraudulent.

            4. Didn’t acknowledge that Hebrew and Greek both have words for child

            5. Sigh. Consent isn’t in there? You sure?

            But if in the field the man finds the girl who is engaged, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her shall die. But you shall do nothing to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case. When he found her in the field, the engaged girl cried out, but there was no one to save her. Deuteronomy 22:25-27

            1. I don’t know where you got the idea that Leviticus only applies to the priests. It would have been news to the people who lived under those rules for 800 years prior to Jesus. Would also have been news to the Hitties who made up the rule. I find it especially shocking since the priest class was allowed a single exception to the Leviticus rules.

            I am sorry your holy book is homophobic. Maybe spend the time learning the languages it is written in if you want to follow it.

      • remotelove@lemmy.ca
        614·
        1 year ago

        If a man has intercourse with a man as with a woman, both commit an abomination. They must be put to death.

        How in the fuck does it take a significant amount of mistranslation or ignorance to read that as “gay is bad”? You can speculate all you want about temporal context, but there is not a scholar alive that actually knows what the actual context was. Sure, we can assume contextual clues, but that is about it.

        I hate to say this, but your analysis about “male” vs “man” and the silly confusion about “as with a woman” is just odd. I understand breaking down the meaning of a sentence into ultra-fine components, but damn…

        “If someone with a dick tries to fuck another person with a dick like a woman (put it in the butt), it bad. You die.” – Today, in our context, that is what it means.

        Books like the bible are written like an extended Nostradamus prophecy so they can be interpreted in any way that “scholars” see fit. Especially in this day and age, some things have to be taken literally.

        • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          Because it is bullshit. The text is very clear what the rules were. The whole Mankind vs man thing is only an issue for people who haven’t bothered learning the language.

        • Veraxus@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Not only do we clearly know the context, I explained it.

          If you want to talk about how morally and ethically repugnant that context is by our modern standards, be my guest. I agree with you.

          But Jewish and Christian scripture is not nearly as ambiguous as it’s portrayed to be by those who want to twist it for their own ends.

    • Captain_Patchy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Not a word.
      Although it DOES say that the man that Jesus resurrected from the beseeching of another man was his “life partner” but that is ALSO conveniently Ignored by the right wing.

  • TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    15·
    1 year ago

    Oh but its the “gay parents” who would “spread gay agenda” on their kids right?

    I’d rather a kid get adopted into a family of gay/trans/queer people rather than a family that is religious. In one, they will be actively or passively taught acceptance of other people, in the other, they will be indoctrinated.

  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    The same people that bring you “books that even mention homosexuality need to be banned to protect the kids” also bring us this.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    9·
    1 year ago

    Yesterday’s Behind the Bastards was on How Christianity Got Eaten By Capitalism which fills in some of the colors on why Christians don’t go for Beatitudes or camels and needles.

    During the Great Depression preachers and minister we left-wing like Marx (typically)

    Enter James W. Fifield Jr. ( on Wikipedia ) co-founder of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, in substantial debt in 1937 for having built a massive chapel (essentially the first megachurch). He found he could make a killing appealing to rich people and telling them by his interpretation they can shit on the poor all they want. Fifield became The Apostle to Millionaires.

    Part two of the BtB rolls out tomorrow.