But also just plain old have some common sense that the people of the ancient world didn’t have the same insight we do into human attraction and sexuality, and we can grow and evolve and know better. Also, even if you don’t agree with people being queer, you also have the ability to shut your mouth about it and keep it to yourself, and be the loving Christian you profess to be no matter what your personal beliefs are, and you have no right to tell people who to love, period.
Why do you practice a religion that requires any practicioner to interpret these abhorrent texts in their own manner? It just leaves a lot of room to interpret anything the wrong way. And unsurprisingly, some people will interpret this in a homophobic way, and honestly, I can’t blame them. The texts themselves are just wrong and shouldn’t be preached.
Because they’re a fucking idiot that believes magic people come back from the dead and that some vaguely sapient being created the entire vastness of the infinite universe with its mind boggling complexity, and sent another magic person to earth to help humanity, and that instead of offering actual help, like, you know, telling people that mold kills bacteria, he just said a bunch of shit about love that can easily be misinterpreted.
Seriously, if Jesus had just taught people about penicillin and then died he’d have done infinitely more good and infinitely less harm than he did.
All that idiotic, steaming horse shit in the bible and not one fucking sliver of insight into the nature of the fucking world. Not one.
Everyone does, and we have some queer and trans congregants too. Our official position is that we welcome all queer people in every way. Actually a bunch of people at another church left and joined us because that church came out as non-affirming of queer people.
I’m a practicing Christian and go to church every week. I also think homophobes are shitheads who don’t deserve the love and mercy of God.
The biblical scholar Walter Bruggeman wrote a great essay on the interpretation of homophobic biblical verses that is really good (https://outreach.faith/2022/09/walter-brueggemann-how-to-read-the-bible-on-homosexuality/).
But also just plain old have some common sense that the people of the ancient world didn’t have the same insight we do into human attraction and sexuality, and we can grow and evolve and know better. Also, even if you don’t agree with people being queer, you also have the ability to shut your mouth about it and keep it to yourself, and be the loving Christian you profess to be no matter what your personal beliefs are, and you have no right to tell people who to love, period.
Why do you practice a religion that requires any practicioner to interpret these abhorrent texts in their own manner? It just leaves a lot of room to interpret anything the wrong way. And unsurprisingly, some people will interpret this in a homophobic way, and honestly, I can’t blame them. The texts themselves are just wrong and shouldn’t be preached.
Because they’re a fucking idiot that believes magic people come back from the dead and that some vaguely sapient being created the entire vastness of the infinite universe with its mind boggling complexity, and sent another magic person to earth to help humanity, and that instead of offering actual help, like, you know, telling people that mold kills bacteria, he just said a bunch of shit about love that can easily be misinterpreted.
Seriously, if Jesus had just taught people about penicillin and then died he’d have done infinitely more good and infinitely less harm than he did.
All that idiotic, steaming horse shit in the bible and not one fucking sliver of insight into the nature of the fucking world. Not one.
Does the majority of your congregation share your opinion as well?
Everyone does, and we have some queer and trans congregants too. Our official position is that we welcome all queer people in every way. Actually a bunch of people at another church left and joined us because that church came out as non-affirming of queer people.
Probably depends on which version of Christianity they go with
Which version of Christianity do you consider to be more accepting?
Most of the non American ones