Re: Provorov won't support Gay Pride
Originally Posted by
Rylant
Yes I definitely get your points. You can drive a truck through the holes in all of the flaws in those arguments, however. To your point, yes the Bible has been translated and interpreted differently. "Thou shall not kill". That's pretty clear what that means. Let's be real here, nowhere in the Bible does it say "Thou shall not be gay". People have interpreted passages to imply that. If you already personally feel that homosexuality is wrong because of years of indoctrination or because your mom and dad have told you that homosexuality is wrong, then it's not difficult to see why you easily are guided by the statement "Man shall not lie with a male as with a woman" to come to those conclusions. What if I say "All of my gay sex is done standing up, so I am not lying with him at all. That must be ok, right?"
And the entire idea of "God blesses 1 man and 1 woman because they can procreate" has it's flaws too. What if he can't impregnate a woman? Or if she can't have kids? Should they be allowed to marry? Or what about the married couple who flat out don't want to have kids? Should they be allowed to marry? What if one point, we scientifically figure out how a man can actually get another man pregnant, and they can have a baby together? Are we now blessing that marriage as the criteria of having a child is fixed? What about the people who don't want to get married at all? Shouldn't we force them to marry; Afterall, that's what God wants, isn't it?
Let's be real, the Bible was written at a time when there was 100 million people alive and the average life expectancy was 30 years. The entire concept of procreation was fundamental for ensuring the survival of the human race. This is simply not the case anymore. As a matter of fact, there is a lot of concern the other way in the sense that overpopulation is a concern. Do we not adapt our beliefs as our needs change? As I have said, slavery, violence, an eye for an eye mentality is all things that were very real in the Bible. Isn't this because that is what was a reality for the people of the time? Is it that the people of the time generally didn't like the concept of homosexuality, or is it that God doesn't like homosexuality? We have been able to get past all of the other barbaric things that we were instructed to do in the Bible because we have evolved to realize that humans can be better than that. Why do we still embrace the barbaric thought that homosexuality is bad? Aren't we better than that?
Rylant
You're also assuming the bible wasn't a piece of fiction, but that's a whole other argument/discussion.
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