• StarManta@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The Bible doesn’t say that about homosexuality, that’s an invention of modern Christianity. It says it’s an abomination.

    Although, I’ve heard (I haven’t looked much into it) that the translation often cited for homosexuality being an abomination actually refers specifically to homosexual child rape, not homosexuality itself.

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 years ago

      Idk it sounds like it would be a huge translation error if it was so

      Leviticus 20:13

      13 If a man lies with another man as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood guilt shall be upon them.

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          2 years ago

          This is a case of modern morals trying to square a round hole.

          Here’s what the new American Bible standard says (which is considered the most accurate English translation by Bible scholars)

          If there is a man who sleeps with a male as those who sleep with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they must be put to death. They have brought their [j]own deaths upon themselves

          That’s it, not man and child but man and male. As in, lumping in homosexuality with pedophilia (that old chestnut).

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      2 years ago

      I’d say the stories of Noah and Sodom and Gomorrah would qualify as genocide. In one he floods the world killing everyone, and in the other he wipes out two city-states