It is this Sodom and Gomorrah story that is so often falsely used to falsely justify a religiously supported false belief that God is against homosexuality. Even if you believe that this book is the word of God, I have found no proof so far that God is against homosexuals. (what an injustice that is to isolate and persecute an entire population of people because of a misinterpretation, and fill our world with so much HATE)
SO.. God bargained with Abraham and said that he would not destroy the city if there were X amount of good people. Well it turns out they are all evil. The men say they would like to get to know the men who are visiting (angels) better. They are immoral rapists, who wish to violate innocent people, in this case men because that was what was available. Lot offers his daughters and says he can rape them, because he did not want to see the men be violated. During that time, the men were valued more than the women, so it was about sparring the men, not at all a specifically themed story condemning homosexuality.
So it IS about sexism and NOT about homosexuality, certainly not how it is understood today. Rapists do not get into commited loving relationships, they rape. End of story.
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I see your point! BUT this is not the only instance in the BIBLE where the issue of homosexuality is discussed.
ReplyDeleteThe other instances are people writing WAY after Jesus is dead. It's added to the book to make our lives horribly limited and make ourselves feel like evil sinners, when that is not necessary. I do not see anything positive about believing any of this. I'll discuss this further when I get there.
ReplyDeleteI might as well have my own book, in fact I might write a book when I'm done. The book of Taylor. I get to write my letters to the church!
"People" wrote the whole book. The old and new testamant. There are instances all throughout the Bible - old and new. You can't disregard some parts of the bible and accept others!
ReplyDeleteI don't believe that you need to accept the whole book in order to have faith or believe in God.
ReplyDeleteIn life when you say things or make statements, you usually need/have some evidence to back-up what you say. Where's your evidence?
ReplyDeleteWhy would it be ok to accept parts of the book, but not the whole thing?
I don't need proof when I am talking about what I believe.
ReplyDeleteIt is ok to accept parts of the book when you do not subscribe to a religion that requires you to believe the entire book. So I only take what I want and throw out the rest. I could take none of the book and that would be fine according to my own believes that doesn't require me to believe anything.