Update!

[conuly]

It's amazing. But apparently gay people have monsters growing out of their necks! Or maybe it's dentists. Dentists have monsters growing out of their necks. And they rape angels! All the time, it's all about the angel-rape.

And G-d, despite having written a Bible full of tons of stuff, has an amazing preoccupation with homosexuality. Not shrimp, and not charity, and certainly not loving thy neighbor as thyself, it's all about the sex.

(I suspect that this says more of the minds of the readers than the writer)

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[oloriel.livejournal.com]

"God doesn't want anyone to go to hell."

Then why the fuck did It set it up in the first place, and why the fuck did It give man free will so he could sin? Why did It invent such a thing as sin, while we're at it?

The simple lack of logic makes my brain hurt.

Also, the part where it's said that homosexuality is bad is Leviticus. Which is before Jesus, who said a lot of things very much different from Leviticus. And Chick generally refers to Jesus as the saviour. Not Leviticus. Fancy that.

*goes and bites her pillow in rage*

[conuly]

And Leviticus 1. also says a whole lot of other things, like the infamous "keep kosher" and 2. may not even apply to common people and 3. might not actually say "gay sex is wrong". There's some interpretation there.

[hopefulnebula]

And don't forget Genesis. It really *was* Adam and Steve, don'cha know. That's what you get for reading a translation. :P

[conuly]

I love that icon.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

There's some very vague, badly-translated stuff about it in the New Testament in Paul's letters to (I think) the Romans. Something like: "The following people will all go to hell: murderers, liars, homosexuals and lots of other people I don't like." Only there was no word for "homosexual" at the time it was written, so there's some doubt about what he was actually trying to say; some have translated it as "pedophiles."

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

What I read in a Christian magazine called "Christ for Everybody" was that Paul was specifically referring to Sacred Prostitution. Since ritual sex is not part of most Christian sects, it's not a problem, really. To the Christian, homosexuality should be taken to be on-par with eating bacon and eggs for breakfast, a non-issue under the New Covenant.

Since Paul's a dirty fucking misogynist, I've never bothered to try and understand his writings from the original Greek. I'm pre-Socratic/Pythagorean/Neo-Platonist when it comes to Greek philosophy anyway, so I don't bother too much with Pauline stuff.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

It's entirely possible that Paul was one of the homophobes who are secretly gay themselves.

[staircase-wit.livejournal.com]

That could explain the intense mysogyny, perhaps. Christian osmoconsciousness strikes me as being perversely both homoerotic and homophobic all at once. It scares me, really.