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Reminder that Bible passages which have been weaponized against homosexuality using bad English translations, were actually about pedophilia. The bigots began to equate pedophilia with homosexuality, which is not accurate to other language translations of the Bible, nor the previous 2,000 years of Christian theology. This lie is completely in line with Conservative ideology, which is always claiming that "queers are targeting our children" and that "drag is pedophilia", and the existence of queer kids is used as proof of "grooming" instead of proof of natural diversity.
https://um-insight.net/perspectives/has-%E2%80%9Chomosexual%E2%80%9D-always-been-in-the-bible/
Note: This source is the United Methodist Church, a fundamental, traditionalist denomination which used to ban homosexuals from ministry, and only changed their stance last year (though this article is older than that, it has been a point of division in the church for a while). Just to show that this is not biased.
Incidentally, I tried to share this on Facebook, where most of the disillusioned Christian zealots who NEED to read this are.
Content banned by Meta... :/
The United Methodist Church, lol.
@ned My spouse (who's a Presbyterian pastor, a denomination which is very much a stickler for accurate translation) has told me that a lot of the trouble is that "arsenokoitai" doesn't show up in many other texts, so it's not clear what it means in the original Greek.
What *is* clear is that it's almost always in the context of violence and violation.
So "pederasty" certainly applies. But "sexual violence" could also work.
(also, 6 total verses on gay sex, far more on welcoming immigrants...)
That tracks!
Got hung up here:
“try to extend grace and patience to the Church. The vast majority of pastors in America have not done their due diligence on this topic, so we can’t expect them to be any further along than they are currently.”
Sorry, but *due* diligence is just that - an obligation, not optional. To neglect due diligence is to abdicate your responsibility and to be culpable for the harm.
As far as I am aware, homosexuality was unexceptional in the Classical period. If Jesus was so against it, it would not have been difficult to comment.
Instead, Conservatives have to sift through the Bible to find support for their own bigotry.
Ugh.