…right, I think you might have misunderstood what I meant by, “gross, icky people”. I usually see the phrase used to mock “”“Christians”“” who yell and scream about people who are LGBT; effectively saying the “”“Christians”“” are just upset because they view the LGBT community as being gross and icky and use the Bible to justify their bigotry.
You’re correct that there’s a lot in the Bible about hellfire and damnation, but I think God doesn’t really care if you’re straight or gay (I know there’s a passage in the old testament that people, especially evangelicals, like to use as a smoking gun, but afaik the English translation is controversial among theologians and it may have intended to refer to pederasty, since that was common at the time), I think he’s more concerned with pedophilia, bestiality, greed, manipulation, etc.
To put it another way, I kinda doubt he gives a fuck about Freddy Mercury being bi or Elton John being gay, and more about how people like Joel Osteen use the Bible to enrich themselves or how people like Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk use their wealth and power to strip people’s rights and encourage bigotry. You know, truly evil people.
If (a big “if”) the Bible is true, I think there are a lot of gay, trans, bi and enby people who’ll be pleasantly surprised to find themselves at the pearly gates, while a lot of supposed “”“Christians”“” will get a rude awakening in hell.
…right, I think you might have misunderstood what I meant by, “gross, icky people”. I usually see the phrase used to mock “”“Christians”“” who yell and scream about people who are LGBT; effectively saying the “”“Christians”“” are just upset because they view the LGBT community as being gross and icky and use the Bible to justify their bigotry.
You’re correct that there’s a lot in the Bible about hellfire and damnation, but I think God doesn’t really care if you’re straight or gay (I know there’s a passage in the old testament that people, especially evangelicals, like to use as a smoking gun, but afaik the English translation is controversial among theologians and it may have intended to refer to pederasty, since that was common at the time), I think he’s more concerned with pedophilia, bestiality, greed, manipulation, etc.
To put it another way, I kinda doubt he gives a fuck about Freddy Mercury being bi or Elton John being gay, and more about how people like Joel Osteen use the Bible to enrich themselves or how people like Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk use their wealth and power to strip people’s rights and encourage bigotry. You know, truly evil people.
If (a big “if”) the Bible is true, I think there are a lot of gay, trans, bi and enby people who’ll be pleasantly surprised to find themselves at the pearly gates, while a lot of supposed “”“Christians”“” will get a rude awakening in hell.
That was the point I was trying to make.
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