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Related: About this forumIn support of EnergizedLib post yesterday on homophobic comments.
https://lgbtq.yale.edu/posts/2025-01-30-new-documentary-1946-the-mistranslation-that-shifted-culture
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In support of EnergizedLib post yesterday on homophobic comments. (Original Post)
Duncanpup
Saturday
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hlthe2b
(110,368 posts)1. Interesting...
"Word of God"-as interpreted/misinterpreted by Man... Yet only the first part of that sentence is considered by all who wish to worship the Golden Idol and (bastardize the word of) all the rest...
OldBaldy1701E
(8,144 posts)2. What can one say?
ZDU
(464 posts)3. Fuck religion
Groomers. Pedophiles. Illness. Sickness.
marble falls
(66,334 posts)4. Christ, who was not a bit shy about calling out sin and sinners. Never had a word to say about homsexuality.
Last edited Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:49 AM - Edit history (3)
Do you suppose Christians were pro-gay before 1946?
"Sodomy" was illegal under English common law.
And the Code Napoleon. etc etc
Homosexuality is not a sin as it was never mentioned before in Bible.
Duncanpup
(14,715 posts)7. English law Napoleon code
All man made B.S.
4th
(303 posts)8. As is the Bible itself.
And persecution of gay people is not the result of a 1946 mistranslation.
It's baked into patriarchal religion from the year zero.