Man tackled by parishioners, handcuffed at Kansas church after Jesus-like prayer -“He has long hair and a beard.”
Man tackled by parishioners, handcuffed at Kansas church after Jesus-like prayer -“He has long hair and a beard.”
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35340931
“They’re our brothers and sisters. When we stop seeing people that way it’s so easy to start making laws or enacting policies that harm them.”
Jesus had nothing to say about gay people. He had an awful lot to say about hypocrisy of religious leaders.
"B-but the old testament said..."
That retort gets so fucking old. At the same time as many fundies talk about how Jesus ushered in a new era of laws, they cling on to the bullshit written by randos hundreds of thousands or years earlier.
These are the same books that shout about how eating shellfish and mixing fabrics are affronts to God. The same ones that herald how virtuous a guy is because he was going to murder his own kid because of a talking bush. The same ones that go into graphic detail about donkey emissions. And yet certain snippets are still relevant in the midsts of all that dross? Give me a break!
And before any Christians respond, know that I (and others) don't care. You can obsess over the old testament all you like. If you find value in their writings then good for you. But don't force that discriminatory, hateful crap on other people.
Edit: fixed a typo.
I think part of the reason that xtianity is so fundamentally schizo when it comes to their Belief System's claims is because they started as a set of Jewish heretics that wanted to rope in "Gentiles" of the day, so it all starts there.
They have their new character talk about the "jot and tittle" thing to throw a bone to the old stuff and using that to legitimize their claims of him being a fulfillment of some prophecy. But then, wonder of wonders, they claim they have a "new covenant" (lol) and that the laws they find inconvenient (especially for converts) are merely "Mosaic law". I mean, how can you really square such things?
It's interesting that most (non-Mormon) xtians can see how the "revelations" from LDS presidents on such things as having black members in their church are, ahem, obviously influenced by the winds of change, but they cannot apply this same logic to their own origins...
While the strongest Biblical criticisms of homosexuality are in the Old Testament, such criticism is also not exclusive to the Old Testament.
e.g. the Book of Romans is part of the New Testament:
Romans 1:26-27:
Something about switches and money lenders springs to mind.