Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
Reply #493 –
This cannot be an argument. It can only be somebody's delusion. The Bible text is the closest-studied text of antiquity. Not just for word by word, but also letter by letter.
Which is why so many scholars know that the translations people normally get a hold of are incorrect in many areas.... In fact, in the Romans passages all you really need to do is read the entire chapter to see something else besides same-sex love was going on. It was most likely a pagan fertility ritual or temple prostitution. The bible seems to be the only book in the world (besides maybe the Quran) in which people think they understand what it says on any given subject based on a couple sentences, keeping in mind that Bible is becomes a maze of self-contradictions if you look at close enough.
The hard conservative type of it that flourishes in the States and deeply involved in politics the way it is rather unique in the West and not typical.
True. What happens is the same-sex marriage was illegal in all 50 states and all other territories and possessions of the US. Yes, some LGBT groups wanted same-sex marriage but the law seemed poised to stay the same. The polls even showed the majority against it. But our Right had to push the issue and enact actual constitutional amendments against it in several states. The LGBT fought back. When it came to court, those amendments were found to run flagrantly afoul the equal protection clause of the American Constitution (there are numerous Federal and state rights and protections offered by legal marriage.) So, thanks to the Right, same-sex marriage is legal throughout America and polls now show the opposite. The Right, chiefly the GOP of course, couldn't leave well enough alone so they made their owns fears come true.
The context in Leviticus is immediately surrounded by rulings on incest and bestiality
And not eating meat and drinking milk at the same time, or wearing clothes of different fabrics, or eating shell fish. C'mon bro. The world changed a little in the past several thousand years (not sure if any knows exactly since that was oral tradition long before it was written down.) Oh and you feel adulterers need to be stoned?