Board Thread:Watercooler 2.0/@comment-6908728-20131117224425/@comment-6191693-20131125003445

I'm just going to leave this here. It's rather long, but well worth it. He says everything I want to say better than I ever could. In short, the Bible does not talk about homosexuality, at least not in the modern sense, which would mean that, yes, you do have to guess what God thinks about homosexuality because it's far less clear than you've been led to and than you'd like to believe.And Ino, until you "disagree with the lifestyles" of people who shave their beards, cut their hair, eat shellfish, wear mixed fabrics, work on the sabbath, get tattoos, and so on and so forth, you don't get to "disagree with a [homosexual] lifestyle." If you believe that the Bible is infallible, then why do you get to choose which "abominations" are worse than others?

Which brings me to that word, "abominations" (also sometimes translated "detestable"). This is one of the biggest problems with Scriptural Literalism -- you're not even reading it in the original language. As mentioned in the video above, the word we usually translate as "abomination" or "detestable" is more accurately translated as "improper" because they were the practices of gentiles at the time, not proper Jews.

And speaking of the infallibility of the Bible, I'm sorry, but it isn't. You may argue that it is the "Word of God," but you have to remember that it was written by men with political agendas of their own, decades and even centuries of the telephone game after-the-fact, not to mention the inconsistencies in spelling and word usage that have only become more ambiguous with age. There are also a lot of people who believe that the Gospel of Paul should never have been included in the New Testament, for many reasons. I don't feel like getting into them at the moment (probably because I doubt I'll be listened to or taken seriously), but if you're curious, just Google "Paul False Apostle."

And if you're still not convinced, I'll make sure to start working on not being gay as soon as I stop having green eyes and blonde hair. If it's so easy just to "change," why don't you spend just one month being gay, just to prove that it's so easy, or even possible to change your sexuality.