demonIntegral
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This crap heats my filament. If god wanted yes-men, we'd all be "hail god;" and if we all still followed "the law;" it would be all sackcloth-and-ashes, blood-on-the-linament... and running my neck online on a Sunday?!?! Get the hibatchi out, we've got a live one...
For a gross simplification, science does the who-what-when-where, and religion does the why. Why is homosexuality "an offense to god?" First off, ain't no "fruitful and multiplying" going on; but the real reason - the "hidden agenda," if you will - is elitism. With religion (generallly), first, there's us; then, there's them. And we can't sit around all day talking about how great we are - that don't fill the pews. But talk about them, talk about sin, talk about burning - hey, I ain't the messiah, but I ain't one of them - and that's the kind of talk, fills the congegration, gets a Word - spread.
Why?
Back in the day, such activities were considered "a sign" of the decadence of Greek and Roman culture - a culture that just so happened to be the target audience of "a new gospel." What about slavery? Nah, too common. Circumsision - hurts... Not my pornography, not your usury; and with the beard, Jupiter looks like Moses... how about - gay bashing?
Some "entertainments" never go out of style. I don't like it, you don't like it... it's actually kind of creepy, so...
Love.
God don't say "choose hetero, or choose fire;" god says, "choose life." Who says that one must abhor the homosexual?
And was that before or after Paul wrote his letter to the Romans?
Tell you what; if you're my gender, and you're attention lingers past my denial - there may be some knuckle action - but, otherwise...
Sex and gender are two very distinct things; and if I was a betting man, I'd bet my left ... that Jesus was speaking of gender when he stated that "man + woman = image of god."
For a gross simplification, science does the who-what-when-where, and religion does the why. Why is homosexuality "an offense to god?" First off, ain't no "fruitful and multiplying" going on; but the real reason - the "hidden agenda," if you will - is elitism. With religion (generallly), first, there's us; then, there's them. And we can't sit around all day talking about how great we are - that don't fill the pews. But talk about them, talk about sin, talk about burning - hey, I ain't the messiah, but I ain't one of them - and that's the kind of talk, fills the congegration, gets a Word - spread.
Why?
Back in the day, such activities were considered "a sign" of the decadence of Greek and Roman culture - a culture that just so happened to be the target audience of "a new gospel." What about slavery? Nah, too common. Circumsision - hurts... Not my pornography, not your usury; and with the beard, Jupiter looks like Moses... how about - gay bashing?
Some "entertainments" never go out of style. I don't like it, you don't like it... it's actually kind of creepy, so...
Love.
God don't say "choose hetero, or choose fire;" god says, "choose life." Who says that one must abhor the homosexual?
And was that before or after Paul wrote his letter to the Romans?
Tell you what; if you're my gender, and you're attention lingers past my denial - there may be some knuckle action - but, otherwise...
Sex and gender are two very distinct things; and if I was a betting man, I'd bet my left ... that Jesus was speaking of gender when he stated that "man + woman = image of god."