I am being nice but I just don’t think it’s reasonable to make this claim that you are making, that these faiths did not condemn homosexuality. The first paragraph in your last response seems to support exactly what I’m saying, because you’re saying well those religions are thousands of years old so they didn’t know any better. So, we are in agreement, right?
However, there is a deeper point in your first paragraph worth looking at. Your claim that ancient humans didn’t know about things which we have today like Phillips head screwdrivers (which did not exist, and they didn’t know what that was), doesn’t apply to things like sexuality and morals (which did exist, and they were familiar with them). Homosexuality isn’t a new thing; it’s been the same for a lot more than three or five thousands years. Humans have been having sex for a heck of a lot longer than that.
What it seems to me that you are doing, is creating modern reinterpretations of ancient religious traditions in order to have them suit you better, rather than looking at them as long-standing traditions, which is how most people understand them. Also, I can’t understand why this revision matters so much to you.
You never did say why it matters to claim that the majority of Christians don’t believe homosexuality is a sin. We all know that this isn’t true, but is it that important to be with the majority? You can just say the majority is wrong, and your minority or heterodox view is right.
I understand wanting to reform Christianity and Judaism rather than abandoning them, but so far my view on these recent attempts to refashion them into LGBT religions as a pipe dream. Why not just abandon them and find another religion (or none at all)?
I am being nice but I just don’t think it’s reasonable to make this claim that you are making, that these faiths did not condemn homosexuality. The first paragraph in your last response seems to support exactly what I’m saying, because you’re saying well those religions are thousands of years old so they didn’t know any better. So, we are in agreement, right?
However, there is a deeper point in your first paragraph worth looking at. Your claim that ancient humans didn’t know about things which we have today like Phillips head screwdrivers (which did not exist, and they didn’t know what that was), doesn’t apply to things like sexuality and morals (which did exist, and they were familiar with them). Homosexuality isn’t a new thing; it’s been the same for a lot more than three or five thousands years. Humans have been having sex for a heck of a lot longer than that.
What it seems to me that you are doing, is creating modern reinterpretations of ancient religious traditions in order to have them suit you better, rather than looking at them as long-standing traditions, which is how most people understand them. Also, I can’t understand why this revision matters so much to you.
You never did say why it matters to claim that the majority of Christians don’t believe homosexuality is a sin. We all know that this isn’t true, but is it that important to be with the majority? You can just say the majority is wrong, and your minority or heterodox view is right.
I understand wanting to reform Christianity and Judaism rather than abandoning them, but so far my view on these recent attempts to refashion them into LGBT religions as a pipe dream. Why not just abandon them and find another religion (or none at all)?