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'Divine trolling': Pope schedules Chicago mass on the same day as Trump's military parade
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So the proscription against gays sex in leviticus, the description of "shameful acts" in romans 26-28, or the condemnation in corinthians and timothy are what exactly?
You may want to believe, and want me to believe, that these do not exist or are always mistranslated, but I can't believe that without evidence.
I'm also not sure why you separate the original texts from the modern circulating translations.
The bible is a living collection which is added to and removed from over time. It is what Christians believe it to be. If most Christians are using faulty translations, that is the bible.
Leviticus: raping your male slaves is incestuous, and males have more rights than females. Raping your female slaves is okay, though, if you follow some extra rules.
Paul’s letters: Temple prostitution, pederasty.
Let’s put it another way. If we’re translating Marx and replace every instance of the word “bourgeoisie” with “jews” and “proletariat” with “aryans” is it still Marx? No, it’s corrupt nazi trash. The “original” texts are still there in black and white in their original languages.
Another fun fact: hell isn’t a scriptural concept. Neither the word nor concept appears anywhere. Also, for being anti-abortion, scripture is explicitly pro-abortion. We could point out the ways that modern Christian teaching directly conflicts their own holy texts all day. My point is that the things they preach are frequently contradicted by their own texts. When someone pulls out something in english and says “look right here, it says ‘homosexual’” I can pull up the original language and point out that no, it doesn’t say that.