That’s not “the part”. The prohibition on homosexuality is repeated several times in the New Testament. The cloth thing is not.
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DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Almost like the only things most Christians do is what they personally like about the religion. The part that tells you to not sleep with a man if you are a man, literally tells you to not wear two types of cloth in the next sentence. You never hear republicans going after the people wearing two types of cloth do you? Never a single word. Not once in the history of the Republican party have they tried to dehumanize people who wear two types of cloth. Funny how that works. Almost like religion is just a tool they use to spread their hate.
Also fuck the people who write in scripture that being gay is a sin. I hope those people burn in hell. 2000 years of suffering and killing of gay people because some asshole couldn’t be bothered to think for 30 seconds about whether it’s actually wrong or not. Probably a good thing because without its several flaws, religion might have came to dominate the world.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Without flaws, a doctrine of fairness for all, murder being a sin, and an overwhelming emphasis on compassion, cooperation, loving thy neighbour and turning the other cheek wouldn’t be the disease modern religion is. It would be a codification of human values.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
“human values” originated in religion
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Abrahamic religions generally frown upon non-procreative sex. Not to justify their hate, but they generally see sex for pleasure as inherently sinful.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
They see everything as sinful, because they themselves are the most sinful people. It’s no mistake that serious religious people tend to be both some of the worst and also some of the most miserable people you ever meet. I believe in God as well but I never assumed God was a dumber then your average human, or that it was just a way for me to impose myself on the world. I always assumed God was close to perfect and so whenever I would assume things about God, I never assumed dumb things like God being a Republican or something. To me God was just an imaginary friend who explored psychic spaces with me. Someone to talk to or pray to if you want to use their auspacious language. The older I get the more I see religion as evil. Even if some of what it says is good, some of what Hitler said was good too. That doesn’t make it a good thing. Religion at its core is a very mean and oppressive worldview and the people who practice it aren’t very rational on the simple ways. Not to state that everything needs an explanation, but the idea that a grown adult would think God dislikes someone because they are gay or something is incredibly dumb. When you see the dark side of religion like this. If you can put yourselves into the shoes of others and see that religion has created so much horror and suffering for simply kind and innocent people who aren’t hurting anyone, not to mention it dehumanized almost everyone, especially women, and is mostly powered by fear, you can really see the issues with it. The worst problem of all however is that it trains people to not think rationally but to think like a schizo. To start with an answer and work backward to try and prove it.
The other dark side is that humans are basically monkeys and they can be extremely shitty to each other. It’s hard to say whether the atheist or the deist constitutes the better person, but at this point in history and probably all points, religion just became a vector for the powerful to impose their shitty views onto everyone else. Stuff like what project 2025 is doing. They are basically using religion to mobilize a idiot army to destroy freedom and democracy, so they can have their hoa corporatism. They are like the Nazis in so many ways. They claim to be things when they aren’t. They claim to be free market capitalists when they are anything but.
What really bothers me is how if they could just be honest for once in their life and admit that the reason they really voted for trump is because they are sick of mass immigration, they might actually get a compromise or resolution. Probably not because the state doesn’t care about those things, and sees it as something that will drive up labor down competition and stuff, but because they cannot be honest they live in these delusions.
Also their weakness, their actual moral failings make them extremely easy to manipulate by people who are quite literally evil. Because they hate gay people for example, trump got power a second time and he is quietly in the background destroying everything they ever loved. The constitution, the free society, their basic ability to even use the internet and access information without being brainwashed. Trump is hyperinflation the economy which is going to destroy the bonds market, honestly already has. This hatred they have makes them blind to everything. Their fear of being an outsider is also a giant weakness to them. They feel as if they have to be maga to fit in at work, to keep their jobs. They are a slave to money in this sense. This weakness also traps them into being manipulated because they don’t realize how many people actually agree with them, most of them in reality since your common person, for all their weaknesses actually isn’t an evil piece of shit like the Republican politicians. Their laziness also becomes a vector for evil to be done through them. They love to be political and vote, yet most people have zero desire to actually learn anything about the issues they vote on, or even history. Now it’s too late. You aren’t allowed to learn about campaign finance, history, political theory, or any of this. The algorithms will try to hide this stuff from you and direct you into brain rot. Their lack of moral character also becomes a vector of evil. They can never take responsibility, because it’s hard. It hurts a bit to admit you have been fighting for the wrong side, but with this pain also comes the ability to change for the better. These are the types of things I learned through my meditations with God. None of this is in the Bible. The Bible teaches obedience, not trusting your own judgment, God taught me the opposite of this, only show obedience to people who deserve it, judge within yourself so that you may know where you are wrong and improve. Most people tell you that one side or the other is better, God taught me that no side is better but representative of two fundamental irreconcilable aspects of reality. Honest work vs human dignity. Democracy as strength in freedom but republicanism as strength in property. Both are necessary. Humans will have children they can’t take care of and then expect others to take care of it. Republicans also always tend to become deeply dark and cynical people because the culture is always against their interests even when they are valid.
Religion teaches you to love religious people and hate gay or atheists people. God taught me to love good people and hate evil people. To realize how lucky I was to know him,but to also understand that so few will ever know him because they are too dishonest and do not love what is good and true like their own soul. That is the shame. I ended up becoming a lucifarian eventually. I still have my good character, but to me religion is terrible.