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FrChazzz

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  • Not trying to convince anyone their book is wrong. I just want folks to see that there are better ways of reading it. As a former evangelical myself, but also a priest who deeply loves the Bible, the Christian faith, and Jesus, I think it's been the case that the Bible has been read incorrectly. Further, as Christians, we're (speaking of myself here, not assuming you are a Christian) supposed to allow Jesus to be the filter through which we read the whole thing. This is difficult, yes. But it can offer clarity. The evangelical reading tends to say "the sin of Sodom was that they were gay, therefore God is going to unleash wrath on anyone who engages in that or supports it." But even Jesus Himself says that the sin of Sodom was that they were inhospitable. So if Jesus tells us that it had nothing to do with what we today call "sexual orientation" then it opens up a space for a better understanding of what's going on. It allows us to see the truly monstrous sins that Sodom and Gomorrah were actually committing (which, to be frank, are the sorts of sins that we see happening in places like Lebanon and Gaza right now, the sins of the Epstein class, the sins of the Catholic Church and other churches coming to light in recent decades). The sin is exploitative sexual violence and the domination of the "outsider." I can't help but notice that the same organizations who treat the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah as "homosexuality" tend to be the same ones either engaging in or accommodating the sins of sexual violence and domination. Is it a smoke-screen? Or is it willful ignorance?

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  • Yeah. Sorry about that. Fixed it.

    Out of habit I clicked the link icon and wound up creating a recursive loop lol

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  • I will concede that the arsenkoites argument of mine is wanting (and maybe a bit innovative). When I first wrote that in 2015 I was still operating under the assumption of the Hebrew Bible being the "real" Old Testament (a mistake a LOT of scholars make). I've since studied more on the importance of the Septuagint (the Greek version of the Jewish Bible that, for centuries, was the Bible) and it's there that we learn Saint Paul is deriving his term from the Greek version of Leviticus. But this is still only what, two verses?

    Also "homosexual" is a term invented in the 1890s that has its own ideological baggage. Using that term to translate a Greek word is not great because you are injecting a later concept into an ancient text. Somewhere along the way I read about some folks who looked at how old French and Spanish texts (or was it German?) that predated our English versions translated "arsenkoites" and they used a term related to pederasty.

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  • You could, I don't know, read the article that I linked in the post that addressed each one of these.

    EDIT: I realize that I did such poor job of linking the article that you might not have actually been able to read said article. Fixed it.

    I will also take the moment to add that if you think the reprehensible sin of Sodom and Gommorrah (a systemic culture of gang rape, likely irrespective of sex/gender, as a kind of "cost" for staying the area) is the same thing as "homosexuality" then I don't know what to say.

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  • They captured Starscream mid-transformation

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  • It's blasphemy and playing right into the assumption that he's the Antichrist.

    Also, what is that Evangelion looking thing above his head?

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  • Hi, Episcopal priest here, who just so happened to do his master's thesis on the topic of reconciling same-sex marriage with traditional Christian understandings of marriage. So to give you the quick answer: no, "being gay" is not in the Bible. If you want the long answer, here's a link to a blog post I wrote about this: https://catecheticconverter.com/same-sex-marriage-and-the-church

    EDIT: I fixed my (apparently very shitty) link job.

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  • Came here to say this! The ol' Reverse Midas!

  • Lesbians Like Me Joined Forces with Conservatives. Now They’re Turning on Us.

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  • Her bio picture on the site clearly used some kind of AI 'glow up' feature. That or she has anime/JRPG hair.

    EDIT: I realize that this could be read as me trying to disagree with you. I'm not. I'm just pointing out that the AI stuff on that site is ubiquitous to the point that even a real person looks fake. How does any site expect people to take them seriously with all that?

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  • Based off the sheer amount of AI slop on that website, I'm not entirely convinced that the author is even a real person.

    bell hooks argues that gay men might be more aesthetically sensitive than other people. If this is true, then no gay man was involved in the art direction of Queer Majority because it is low-rent slop all the way down.

  • Pentagon To Host Good Friday Service Just For Protestants, Not Catholics

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  • I'm Episcopalian. One of my mentors was a wonderful old bishop who once noted that Christianity goes through a sort of 500-year cycle where we see segments of the church get real wealthy and in bed with political power, followed by a group that seeks reforms, who then themselves become the "in-group." The Protestant Reformation happened about 500 years ago, protesting the wealth and political hegemony of the Roman Catholic Church...

    Watching the Western world the past several decades has convinced me that we're witnessing Protestantism's "high medieval era" moment. I wonder what the new reformation will look like? It'll probably all happen a lot quicker than the Protestant Reformation's process did.

  • Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit

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  • JD Vance wildly claims Ilhan Omar ‘definitely committed immigration fraud,’ White House will ‘go after’ her

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  • Remember, even at Yale Law, someone has to graduate bottom of the class...

  • Trump says he’s signing an order instructing DHS to pay TSA agents amid shutdown

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  • I don't know, calling Marco Rubio "Meatball" is pretty good (though apparently Trump denies this one).

    And listen, I'm not proud of it, but I definitely laughed when he referred to Covid as "Kung Flu." But looking through the Wikipedia list of nicknames I gotta say, he's definitely week. He reused "Sloppy" for both Steve Bannon (whomst he should have called "Shirt Stack" for those silly layered button downs) and Chris Christie, and also reused "Lyin'" and "Liddle" and others. Pretty unoriginal overall.

  • If you woke up a billionaire tomorrow, what's the first thing you'd do?

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  • Ask them why they won’t give their money to those in need?

    I don’t know. I’m just surprised no one else read this sentence as though they were waking up some billionaire from their slumber.

  • Luke training with his new lightsaber

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  • I wonder: since the Death Star was powered by kyber crystals, is it effectively a giant lightsaber? (Also, this allows me to share my long-held head canon that the reason Luke’s RotJ lightsaber is green is because the only kyber crystals he could find were salvaged from the Death Star wreckage)

  • Types of Podcasts, a guide

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  • What about three white guys just hanging out and talking about the exact same crap they always do, but this time with a microphone in the middle? (This was my old podcast, The Masters of Divinity)

  • Trump has delighted apocalyptic Christians. They say the End Times are coming

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  • To be fair, that guy IS on social media. A lot.

  • Trump has delighted apocalyptic Christians. They say the End Times are coming

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  • May 21, 2011 was supposed to be the rapture or end of the world or whatever. I remember this because it was also my wedding day. Lived outside DC at the time and there were all these people holding signs and wearing shirts about it. We joked about getting a few for my bachelor party ("ha ha the world is ending on that day ... FOR HIM!"). Never did it. But I had a great wedding.