@engineerrunner

Homosexuality is not something you “struggle with,” it is something you are born with. If you are “struggling” with it, you’re probably just in denial, which then of course leads to internalised homophobia and therefore projections.

The part of the bible saying it is a sin to lie with a man as one a woman is an abomination is actually a mistranslation. This did not appear in any English translation of the bible until 1946. In ancient Greek and historical German translations (such as Martin Luther’s 1534 Bible), the terms used like “arsenokoitai” and “knabenschander” referred explicitly to exploitative relationships, such as child molestation, master-slave rape, or temple prostitution.

Passages in Leviticus (such as Leviticus 18:22) are part of holiness codes that also ban eating shellfish or wearing mixed fabrics. How come you would choose to selectively enforce the passages that benefit you but not the others?

Matthew 7:1–2: "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged..."

John 8:7: Jesus explicitly challenges a crowd looking to punish a woman by saying, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her."

Romans 2:1: "You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself..."