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Old 05-08-2012, 06:02 PM   #19
Saya
 
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Originally Posted by Murder.Of.Crows View Post
Rereading it, yeah it just says things are abominations and such. But, I find it ironic that it is greatly ignored by Christians until it serves their purpose, and they use those passages against people.
Oh yeah, its really super dumb, according to Paul and arguably Jesus the old laws and punishments don't hold, except apparently that one?

I'm also not really sure about how things were when Leviticus was being written, but a lot of modern theologians point out that in the New Testament there is no Greek word for "homosexuality", and consensual sex between two adult men was illegal in Rome. What was legal was pederasty and the rrape of slaves two freeborn men couldn't have sex without serious consequences, except for Emperors like Nero. So its probable that Paul was speaking out against the rrape of children and slaves and not explicitly two consensual adults free of exploitation. Lesbian sex was ignored (and not mentioned in the Bible), partly because by Greek and Roman standards, sex is something a man did to someone, but its also possible it was ignored because it lacked the tradition of rrape and exploitation.
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