[QUOTE= Northern Piper]
Happy Scrappy Hero Pup, what do you make of this passage, then?
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I refer you back to post #64. I also suggest reading the thread. While mind-boggling at times, Valteron’s gibbering does at least serve to bring the educated out of the woodwork, if only to shake their heads sadly.
I refer you further (and reference my own personal beliefs) to the story of Jesus and his journey to heal Jairus’s daughter and the interruption he encountered on the way. It appears in Matthew, Mark, and Luke in similar form.
Here, Jesus heals a woman who has dismenorrhea. This is significant not because she is sick, but because, through no fault of her own, she is ritually unclean. Yet her faith in Christ gives her peace and comfort, and Christ acknowledges that her faith has made her well. This tells me that God’s love is available equally to all who seek it, even those who by accident of birth or physical nature may be “outside.” All are worthy of love and all are loved by God. This, I daresay, is a much more prevalent view of Christianity than “kill the faggots.”
The point of Christ’s mission is to eliminate the barriers between man and God. While some might argue that the Catholic Church has missed that boat to some degree, that’s an argument for another thread. What is important here (and to me) is that Christ’s new Covenant with man is based on two laws only- love God and love my neighbor.
Everyone knows the story of the Good Samaritan- but Samaritans were not known for their peaceful or giving natures- they were involved with the “Jews” in what was essentially a cultural/religious conflict. In the story, plenty of “virtuous” men pass the wounded traveler by, and the only person who takes him in is his “enemy.”
These and other images in the Gospels, particularly the Gospel of Matthew, tell me that in order to love my neighbor, I am to love even/especially those who are unlike me. It is easy to love oneself, and easy to love those who are like me. It is as my neighbor looks less and less like me that it becomes convenient not to love him, but in the end, Christ is in everyone, and thus whatsoever I do or do not do for the least upon earth, I do for Christ.
So, if you’re asking me what I make of a passage in Leviticus, I’ll tell you that what I make of it is that, once upon a time, my spiritual predecessors had in place a system of harsh rules and expectations designed to help them live and worship in a harsher world than the one in which we now live, and my spiritual Brother in Christ replaced those many laws prioritizing necessity with two laws prioritizing love.
Does that suitably answer your question? If it does not, I am happy to either answer it further or discuss it in a separate thread when I have available moments.
[QUOTE= Omegaman]
Lick me you, yard queen. Marley23 , make your warning offical ?. You want to play with the kiddies? Don’t mention my name unless you want to make it offical. My respect for you? Earn it. Don’t give a fuck? I’ll live. I live in the world you only see in the movies. Let the punks run wild because they follow the rules better than me . Be in the street when some punk wants to make you bleed. I know, it’s so hard. Welcome to the world. Oh my!
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Bartender! Two pints of…
of…
whatever stuff he’s drinkin’.
[QUOTE= DCTrekkie]
Don’t bother trying to use what the bible actually says. You should know by now that it means whatever they want it to believe, changing meaning whenever it’s convenient.
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I’m willing to bet that you have absolutely no idea how to even FIND Leviticus, much less what it says. I’m willing to bet further that you’ve never actually studied the Bible, just cherry-picked verses to fuel whatever rage is currently popular with people like you.
[QUOTE= DCTrekkie]
Valteron, whilst I agree with the other posters that it won’t actually make them change anything, if you’d feel happier then go ahead and complain. Sometimes it’s worth it just to make a point, even if it won’t have much effect.
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Boy, are YOU ever hitching your horse to the wrong wagon.
