"There had been abuse in my family. But it was mostly musical in nature."

[weaktwos]

One of the things that has always amazed me about staunch religious supporters is that they believe, without question, that the Bible is the world of God.

However, it was written and translated and deciphered over thousands of years. So much can be misinterpretted, left out, or mistaken.

God him or herself doesn't publish the translations directly, but through humans.

Now since when have humans been noted for consistent, spot-on communication? Hells bells. People can read the same news reports, live in the same neighborhood, and still have different opinions about what's going on around them.

And between the time Jesus walked this earth and the time we started publishing Bibles for mass distribution, we had the Dark Ages, where any number of documents could have been burned. One of them being a whole book of retractions. God could have said:

"I've changed my mind. I was drunk when I rattled off Leviticus. I was hung over, too. Hence all the 'vomiting from the earth' references. It's not so bad, a man laying down with another man. It's just not nearly as hot as two women, but the Lord digresses. Really, just be good for each other, and all love is good. Except fornicating with livestock. That's just a bad idea."

It could happen.

Comments

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[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

When I researched the history of the word "fornicator", it's usage, back in the 1200--1300s when its first documented use was discovered, implied sex between a man and a woman out of wedlock. Not homosexuals. (I own a copy of of the Oxford English Dictionary, which goes back to word usage through history). That's just an interesting side note.

But as you say, that's your opinion, on the issue of homosexuals. Now a whole bunch of people have opinions around this issue, and there's room for argument on both sides. So my take on this is that the government should not take a restrictive stance on this issue based on an argument that's religious in nature and not civil.

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[cotharyus.livejournal.com]

I see where you're coming from. Honestly. However, I think the issue that the government is looking at is from a standpoint of recognizing legal status for things like ...family insurance. Of course I'm all about being like "fuck the insurance companies" - I think they should all be shot. Which I can't say about other groups of people we're talking about because the polititions have protection.