Quote from: Revalin on September 21, 2011, 03:24:42 AM

Quote from: PinkiePie on September 21, 2011, 01:10:05 AM

There are similar explanations for everything you can bring up here, you are trying to fit what you wish God was telling you into what he is telling you. It doesn't work that way.

That sword cuts both ways. You're preaching God's will as you see it. People taught it to you because of their own skewed interpretations fit to what they wanted to hear. Perhaps there's some guidance against homosexuality, although I believe the reasons for it are historical and not meant to apply to the modern world, like vast amounts of the Old Testament.

An objective reading of the bible has very little to say on this subject; Jesus didn't mention it at all. But even if you believe that this is really against God's will, it's an item of vanishingly small importance. The sheer amount of effort Christians put into this crusade is, in itself, a violation of God's will to love each other, support each other, and build a better world.

There was very little for Jesus to say. Homosexuality was forbidden in both the Old Testament and the New in plain text, historical revisionism is the only reason we even need to have the conversation. Jesus was not on this Earth to make rules, he was here to sacrifice himself for our sins. We might as well be arguing about the justifications in the bible for murder, there are some situations that look wrong to modern eyes, but we cannot use them to ignore the plain language that forbids it.