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Originally Posted by Tanngrisnir3
The sin of S&G was not homosexuality. Perhaps if you actually read the bible, you'd know that.
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"Perhaps if you actually read the bible, you'd know that."
That's a good line commonly used to cover ignorance of something
Accuse the other of ignorance when it is
you that is ignorant
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To those lacking a reasonably close familiarity with the Bible (a group that includes mostnon-Christians and a sizable percentage of church-goers), the pro-homosexual arguments have proven highly persuasive. People
The effort to justify homosexuality Biblically was the award-winning 1981 book "
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality" by John Boswell. Tellingly, Boswell was himself homosexual and died of AIDS in 1994 (Pennington, Sylvia, Ex-Gays? There are None!, 1989, Hawthorne, p. 161). His ideas have been amplified by others, but the two persistent central arguments of “gay theology” are both contained in Boswell’s work. These are 1) that most scriptural passages addressing homosexuality have been misinterpreted to condemn behavior that is not condemned by God, and 2) that the few actual proscriptions against homosexuality were merely elements of the Old Testament Jewish ritual cleansing and purity laws that are no longer in effect.
Boswell’s fatally flawed arguments are still adopted practically verbatim by activists like Kindle. For example, Kindle parrots
Boswell’s assertion that the sin for which Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed was not homosexuality but “inhospitality.” He claims that the early rabbis never associated homosexuality with the sin of Sodom and that the entire story is better explained by studying the Middle Eastern cultural value of hospitality.
See the boof here:
MassResistance!