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Originally posted by Rainbows
Actually, despite the popular beliefs of current Christianity in the world and organized religion, it is NOT what the Bible says.
Unfortunately, most Christians don't tend to really study the Bible and it's original translations. The word wasn't originally written in English, it was translated over to our language so that it could be read and practiced by people who spoke English.
HOWEVER, naturally, words got lost in the translation and things were slightly edited and interpreted differently than the Bible's original version [hence the many, many different versions released of the Bible in English].
This happens in religion because people who practice what the Bible says FAIL to study it and actually discover the true meanings of the context of the literature. Most just preach what the preacher says instead of actually reading the Bible themselves and studying it.
This is called Biblical Literalism.
Those who quote the scripture to justify their animosity are guilty not just of intolerance, but also of selective piety, an inability to understand historical context and poor reading comprehension.
I'm going to post some quotes from a review on the documentary, For the Bible Tells Me So, that many people here as well as all denominations of Christianity in the world right now need to see.
In the Bible's original translation, the word "abomination" does not and DID NOT translate to how our modern day Christians use it. It does not mean an "act against God." The word in the original translation of the Bible actually means an "act against civilization's cultural norms."
Also take the word "unnatural" for example that the church also tends to use as a weapon of spiritual violence. Unnatural didn't translate to what the English dictionary says when the Bible was originally written. In it's original text, unnatural translated to "not customary or traditional."
IF you study the Bible as a scholar [not saying that I have], you will discover these facts about how the Bible is interpreted nowadays by modern Christianity is not comparable to what the Bible really says.
Homophobia is just another form of misogyny — it stems from a hatred of women.
The church doesn’t want men sleeping with other men because it emasculates them, which flies in the face of our patriarchal society, which I suppose threatens church leaders’ right to have a meal on the table when they get home.
So, instead, the church has created an environment of intolerance, which — in a decidedly non-Christian twist — has not only fostered violence against gays and lesbians, it legitimizes it — empowering cruelty and hostility.
The church used to preach that women had no right to speak and had to live in their place as a woman in the world. They also used to preach that interracial marriage was wrong, etc., etc., etc.......the list could go on and on. Unfortunately for the LGBT community, we're just the newest target.
Hope you took the time to read this and I hope it makes sense to those of you who choose to read it.
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Preach it Pastor Rainbows
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