Re: Hate Thread
I hate Jesus. He was a long haired, sandal wearing peace activist who hung around with 12 dudes ALL THE TIME then he tells us we should hate hippie faggots?!
I don't recall Jesus ever telling anybody to hate. Ever. He was a good man who preached love, forgiveness and understanding. The entirety of the bible is not his words.
Does the new testament even say anything about gays? And does Jesus? I don't recall hearing anything.
From what I remember... somewhat. Sodom and Gomorrah were originally from Hebrew, and in the Jewish religion God's wrath was brought down upon the cities not for sexual sins, but rather for their cruelty and inhospitable nature to the 'stranger'. As well as economic crimes, blasphemy and bloodshed. There wasn't really any mention of homosexuality as far as I can tell. Cruelty to the point where they discovered a young girl who was kind to a beggar and burned her before smearing her with honey and hung from a wall until she was eaten by bees.
Hell, even in the Christian version of the story, it is somewhat unclear as to why the cities were destroyed. Many people jump to homosexuality, but the word they think means "sex" (know) was only used 1% of the time before to describe sexual relations. It could have meant that they wanted to interrogate travelers to the city which ties in with the original Jewish version.
"Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire" (Jude 1:1)
This text has been debated to reference bestiality, illicit sex with strangers (and considering the way these folks treat strangers it was more than likely rape), and sex with angels. Of course though, as we all know, it is often interpreted as homosexual relations.
Orthodox Christian views see the main reason of the condemnation of the cities as being the refusal to repent, along with these other sins, as well as
forced perverse sex as being one of the larger physical sins.
Interpret it as you will.
Jesus said shit about faggots? Who the hell?
He himself did not say anything about homosexuality.