Why do Christains hide behind the Bible to justify their homophobia?
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As a christian, I have a distaste for homosexuality, but that does not mean that I should hate you. Jesus loves everyone, even those who do not follow in his path. I don't take homophobia as a bad thing, in a society the majority will naturally be heterosexual, making homosexuality a deviancy. It's just natural for a civilization to be wary of that.\nBut going back to your beliefs that the christians "hide" behind the bible, we don't. The bible defines our beliefs and therefore we must follow them to the best of our abilities. That includes disapproval of homosexuality. I'm sorry that you've been burdoned with this, just know that Jesus' love really is unconditional.
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Due to the nature of the Internet, these haters are provided with a relatively safe haven to spout their anti-Catholic/Christian bigotry. \n\nYou see, they are all too cowardice to act that way in public, but repercussions online are minimal.\n\nBut you know what? That same relative safety is also granted to the faithful. And we can counter their bias, bigotry, and hatred with God's Truth, thus exposing these people for the fools they are.
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Because they dont want us to know anything and things hidden from us. Whereas the bible has been re-written and re-written by man in diffrent languages. Some parts of the bible were actually left out. It never did make it due to the majority of other churches in 1st centery. The book of enoch and St thomas was never mention. In fact back then, they never did workship any female aspects as mention in the hidden scrolls.. and were supose to believe what man has interpreted and wrote what ever they wanted to wrote? I dont think so...is why I study all religions and take religion like a buffet, I get what I agree on and leave the rest behind and just pray about it.
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Yeah, they have women preachers and gay preachers, both of which are against the Bible.  Open hearts, open minds, open doors, and open disregard for the Biblical teachings.
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Under "sources" is an interesting article on Christians and Homosexuality (it brings up some interesting points and answers your question in a more educated way than I could, having never read the big'ol'bible).\n\nIt starts out:"When Christians pour their judgment on homosexual men and women, they do nothing less than make a mockery of their own savior, Jesus Christ. The grace they are willing to accept as followers of Christ is suddenly not good enough to extend to those they find offensive. It's a double standard, based not in biblical truth but in fear and the desire for control. To understand this, we must understand what Christians believe, and how their beliefs are being subverted from living in love to the canonizing of condemnation...."
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I don't know...maybe they see us as a softer target for 'saving' than say a devout muslim or hindu.\n There are so many things in the bible that are conveniantly ignored by the bible-thumping folks...like the sin of eating of shellfish, the 'good' things about slavery, the not having short hair etc.\n\nThey just pick and choose what they want to follow from the bible.. and insist on trying to control our lives with their misguided morals.\n\nIt just makes me sick the way they like to quite neatly put us in the same box as murderers, pedophiles and rapists.\nBecause these criminals 'love' their victims....\nDon't you get it you narrow-minded fools....these crimes of murder, child abuse and rape all involve one consenting person and one VICTIM.\n\nGay/lesbian relationships consist of TWO CONSENTING adults, loving or having consensual sexual relations with eachother.\n\nHow could an all knowing God punish people for loving eachother.\nShouldnt God be frowning upon you these bigoted bible-thumpers for not loving their neighbours?
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Yes, they are espousing a hatred of their fellow man and a disrepect of privacy that is damaging to their credibility.  \n\nThe reason it's called homophobia is because every fundamentalist parent deeply fears that their child will be gay and they will be ostracized by their religious peers if they continue to love and respect their child.  This is one of the worst things that can happen to a fundamentalist Christian or Muslim.\n\nFundamentalists belive that they should treat their child as a sinning criminal if they are gay&#92;lesbian.  They say they love their own gay&#92;lesbian child as they love a murderer or a rapist or a terrorist.  Read the comments below, if you don't believe.  \n\nThat is the most warped twisted view of how the world should work that I can imagine.  It is also the reason that they insist that gay families should not be accepted as equals in society.\n\nIf a fundumentalist's gay or lesbian child decides to start a family, either by make a lifetime commitment to their same-sex parnter or adopting or concieving a child using in-vitro fertilization, or both, then the parents strict religious beliefs tell them that they must reject their own child and grandchild's family as sinful and an affront to God.  The same family that will carry on their own name, and will live far longer than the parent themselves.  They curse their own family as evil.\n\nOther church members will vigorously support their rejection of their own flesh and blood.  Fundamentalist christians with gay children live a life of pathetic misery due to their own ignorance and often die in shame, without their children beside them, and are remembered without fondness or love.  All Because they cling to one chapter of the bible which condemns homosexuality and also condones slavery and treating women as property.\n\nThat is why when you see homless, or drug addicted, prostituted or disease-ravaged gay kids, they are more likey to come from a fundamentalist family than any other place.  Love the sinner is just a slogan.  Ask these kids.  And I'm not even going into some of the beatings these kids, espeically boys, have to go through from thier fathers, (again, also proscribed in the bible.)
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I completely agree with you. And don't worry, I'd never mention the bible. except that I think it's probably the first NOVEL to be written!!\nI think the homophobic aspect had a good deal to do with children's up-bringing. People either take on their parent's views or run a mile from them. I did the latter. My parent's were so racist and homophibic, an inheritance I didn't want.
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Interesting, that is what you call "keeping the scripture in context." See, I have asked allot of questions about why Paul said woman must "be silent, an are not allowed to teach or have authority over man."\n\n1 Cor 11:6-7,1 Cor 14:34,1 Tim 2:12\n\nAnd I got answers telling me I am taking it out of context, strangely, when the same question gets asked about gays, they quickly condemn gays to hell without looking at the "context" of the phrase or scripture. It seems you can justify any kind of in-tolerance with the bible when you take it "out of context". \n\nPersonally i think the book is full of hypocrisy and bias, but that is just me...
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I don't understand that. We as christians should be in the world, not separating ourselves from it. They're not gonna spread the Gospels by hiding.
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Because, to them, all that's not in accordance word for word with the bible is different. Difference is thus evil. They're scared.
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ok in relation to your stupid ADAM AND STEVE post in our gay section  read these QandA's\n\n\n\nThe condition of homosexuality:\nNowhere in Scripture is reference made to the condition of homosexuality, only to homosexual acts. \n\n"Aren't you trying to wriggle out of what the Bible clearly says about homosexuality?":\nWhat the Bible says about anything is selective, contradictory and liable to change in interpretation. People do not believe in " what the Bible says". People believe in traditions about what the Bible says. Judeo-Christian tradition certainly is homophobic but whether the words of Jesus are homophobic is another matter. The various Christian theological traditions are so different from one another that they cannot be identical with the words of Jesus. The believer must decide whether the words of Jesus are more important than Christian traditions. Arguing out of Christian traditions is circular. \n\nThe story of Sodom (Genesis 19):\nThe story about the destruction of Sodom is not about homosexuality. It is about the sin of breaching sacred hospitality. \n\nThe Old Testament prohibitions:\nThe Old Testament prohibitions against homosexuality in the Books of Leviticus (chapter 18, v.22; chapter 20 v.13) and Deuteronomy are essentially provisions of the Jewish Law. Those Christians who base their disapproval of homosexuality on them must be prepared to state whether or not they are prepared to keep the other provisions of the Jewish Law. \n\nRuth and Naomi, David and Jonathan, Jesus and the "Beloved Disciple":\nThese friendships, as described in Scripture, are not gay relationships. The first two friendships are about the righteousness of choosing those who are elected by God, namely, the Hebrew nation in the case of Ruth, and David in the case of Jonathan. The friendship between Jesus and the "Beloved Disciple" is a symbol of true faith and discipleship. \n\nThe Centurion's Servant:\nThis is one story in which a gay relationship may be mentioned. This is because the word used in Greek in the account given by Luke can mean "boyfriend"', we know that centurions and their personal servants often had sexual relations and it is stated that the centurion was very fond of the servant. If this story does mention a gay relationship, then it confirms that Jesus was less interested in what people did rather than in their faith and love. \n\nPaul's condemnations of Decadence of the Pagan World in his Letter to the Romans, (chapter 1 v. 26-27):\nThis is the one passage in Scripture that mentions lesbianism. The passage condemns the pagan world for failing to observe the will of God as revealed in creation. It depends, however, on whether you accept Paul's argument that this is what the pagans are doing in the behaviour he describes. If you do not, it adds nothing to Paul's remarks on homosexual behaviour. \n\nPaul's other condemnations of Homosexuality (1 Corinthians 6 v 9):\nNo-one is sure what the words used in these passages refer to. They could refer to some types of homosexual behavior but it is not certain.
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Actually, ALL species of the animal kingdom engage in homosexual behavior...so yeah it IS nature intended. Christians have a problem with anything they can't control. They're also brainwashed and can't think for themselves.
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It makes immature people uncomfortable, because all they think about are the "acts" of a gay person. Then some decide to hide behind scripture as a defense for there intolerance. For the record, if you believe the same god powerful enough to create the entire universe cares what two adults do in the privacy of there own bedroom as long as there not hurting anyone else, you need to reevaluate your spiritual priorities.
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Christians denounce homosexuality because the Old Testament says that sodomy is a sin. Of course, it says a lot of other things are sins, too, and Christians don't go around denouncing all the people who engage in those sins, so it makes one wonder. I'm pretty sure most people tell lies now and then, but Christians don't go around talking about all the evil liars and telling liars that they will burn in Hell the way they tell homosexuals they'll burn in Hell. Maybe that's because even they tell lies, so they understand how someone might occasionally commit that sin and still be a good Christian. If that's the case, it means they're hypocrites, though.\n\nI think one of the reasons they rationalize their criticism of homosexuality is that homosexuality is a "sin" that lasts a lifetime. Once someone "decides" to live a homosexual lifestyle, he is basically agreeing to commit the "sin" of sodomy for the rest of his life (well, males are, anyway). Many Christians perceive this to be worse than a "one time" sin such as stealing some money from someone but feeling guilty about it and repenting afterwards. And then when homosexuals also talk about their sexuality openly, it's as if they're bragging about their sin, or at least that's how it appears to many Christians.\n\nHowever, what Christians don't think about is that almost all people engage in some kind of "ongoing" sin, like lying on a regular basis, and yet they forgive these people, realizing it's God's place to judge, not theirs. For example, the Old Testament also denounces a child who talks back to a parent with the same fire and brimstone language that it denounces sodomy. And yet you don't see Christians denouncing children as "sinners." A child might be chastized for talking back to a parent on a particular occasion, but you hardly ever hear any Christian with any sense of perspective whatsoever telling the child he's "going to burn in eternal Hell for his sinful ways" just because he occasionally sasses his Mom.\n\nA better example is divorce and remarriage. While sodomy is condemned in the the Old Testament (Leviticus especially), it is not condemned in the New Testament. Jesus doesn't say a word about it. And yet divorce and remarriage are clearly condemned in both the Old and New Testament. Jesus himself says that marriage is sanctified by God and that no one should break a marriage apart. And yet most of the Christians who regularly condemn homosexuality and turn their noses up at gays wouldn't dream of telling people who have divorced and remarried that they're going to burn in eternal Hell because of it. I can see no reason for this except pure hypocrisy. They themselves, being straight, would never commit sodomy (or at least not with someone of the same sex) and think it's disgusting, so it's easy to condemn those who do. But since they themselves may get divorced and have friends who may be or will someday be divorce, they understand the problems that can lead to divorce and sympathize with those who would suffer if they remained married, even though divorce is a sin. Likewise, they see it as simply "human nature" when divorce peole find love and marry again. Why can't they sympathize with homosexuals who would suffer if they never acted on feelings of love and remained alone, or worse, in a forced and fake marriage? Because they themselves have never felt that kind of love, so they don't get it.\n\nDo I understand their reasons for disliking homosexuality? Yes. (Although I personally disagree.) Do I think it's their place to denounce homosexuals? Absolutely not. Even the Bible says "judge not  lest ye be judged." I think it's pure hypocrisy. And if a few more of them were shown how their attitudes towards homosexuality and divorce reveal the underlying hypocrisy, maybe a few of
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Christians do not hate gays.  They just cannot agree with the lifestyle, which are two different things.  For instance, I am a person and heterosexual.  Two things that can be separated, just like people can separate politics and religion.  So, I know someone will say well "I am gay, so you hate me."  I would reply, "No. You are a human, and I do not like your sexual preference."  As far as people hating Christians, many people have many different reasons.  The biggest reason is that people are afraid to give up themselves for a reason bigger than themselves and they are afraid of those who do.  Some Christians are not great examples of what way to react to homosexuals, or other things.  But they freak out, out of fear that their way of life is being threated.  Just like the homosexuals do.  Just look at the responses here so far, they are reactionary.
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People, in this case women, who like to try to throw a monkey wrench into the fact that God created men, women and marriage for the purpose of trying to keep stuff like this from happening. The act of homosexuality is even disgusting to God!