• rambaroo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think this is a dangerous rabbit hole to go down. The vast majority of religions cherry-pick from their religious texts. Arguing that Christians fundamentally can’t be tolerant of gay people because of Leviticus is basically conceding them to hatred. It’s also an argument frequently used by the right to spark hatred Western minority religions like Islam because the Qu’ran says a lot of messed up stuff like the Bible does.

    There are Christian denominations that openly accept gay people and I don’t think it’s wise to claim they aren’t “real” Christians because of a few passages from a text written by dozens if not hundreds of people that already contradicts itself repeatedly.

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      1 year ago

      I’m sorry but I simply disagree. Hypocrisy needs to be called out and the absurdity of religion needs to be called out.

      The fact that this guy’s church is nice to gays does not make up for the hate and death religion has brought to the gay community.

      I’m pointing out the ridiculousness of a church that’s pro gay, while I also point out the evil of churches that are anti gay.

      I don’t have to pick the lesser of two evils becuase they are both evil, lying and manipulative.