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[–] yarr@feddit.nl 0 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I will start this out with a disclaimer that I do not follow Christianity at all....

If you are a bible-follower and friendly towards homosexuals, then I guess you're skipping over that part where it says "homosexuality is an abomination".

That's one of the many reasons I can't look to the Bible for guidance. I have some gay friends and they deserve all the love and consideration everyone should get.

To those that say the Bible deserves to be followed, but exclude the parts where it says homosexuality is an abomination, I wonder what other parts you ignore? AFAIK, one isn't supposed to flip through the Bible and pick and choose which sections should be followed.

This is one of the many reasons why I consider the Bible immoral, and following it either immoral or morally and logically inconsistent.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 1 points 6 days ago

The old testament says a lot of things (in ARAMAIC) that have been translated by fallible human hands a hundred times with implicit bias. It's a game of telephone that's been going for thousands of years. It didn't mean "gay people are bad".

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[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 310 points 1 week ago (8 children)

When asked to respond to Falco's inflammatory remarks, the church said in a statement that the preacher was "only calling for the death penalty and suicide for the actual sodomites (homosexuals). The Bible teaches that those people are worthy of death. They are supposed to be executed by the government. We are not to take the law into our own hands."

This is the "reserved" and "compromise" position in their eyes.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 107 points 1 week ago (12 children)

reminder: these fascists assholes are not human. they give up all humanity when they actively choose to become or remain within this trump nazi cult. so when we say “nazis are not human” we are not dehumanizing them; they did it to themselves.

these fuckwits need prison. all of them.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 80 points 1 week ago

Nah, they need to be executed. If it's legal for them to say gay people should be executed, it's legal for me to say they should be executed.

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[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 229 points 1 week ago (13 children)

"The Bible teaches that those people are worthy of death. They are supposed to be executed by the government. We are not to take the law into our own hands."

Ah yes, Jesus was famously pro-death penalty as long as only the state was enforcing it.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 115 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well yeah, Jesus had first hand experience in the state enforcing the death penalty.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 week ago

First hands, then feet.

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 200 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Someone really should investigate that preacher because there is a near 100% chance he is a pedophile.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 125 points 1 week ago (9 children)

In a sermon titled, "Pray the Gay Away," Stephen Falco, an evangelical preacher with the Sure Foundation Baptist Church, yelled from the pulpit, "They're all a bunch of f-----, that want to walk around, come on our streets, and demand our children. And we should look them in the eye and say, 'No, you're not going to have our children!'"

What a disgusting message. I wouldn’t be sad if this sack of shit got hit by a bus.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago (5 children)

One day, sooner than later, we're going to have to deal with the American Taliban.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 76 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

As an LGBTQ+ American, I urge such evangelicals to execute themselves.

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

That they go to North Korea and denounce the dictator, go to Afghanistan and denounce Islam as a heresy, or to Juarez and denounce, by name, cartel leaders as parasites who hate Mexicans more than Trump supporters.

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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 74 points 1 week ago (5 children)

They're all a bunch of f-----, that want to walk around, come on our streets, and demand our children. And we should look them in the eye and say, 'No, you're not going to have our children!'

Statistically, a child is at greater risk of being sexually abused by a preacher than a member of the LGBT community

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[–] CXORA@aussie.zone 65 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Religion is incompatible with civilised life.

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Right, pick and choose the parts of the Bible that you like. That way its exactly as cruel as you want it to be...

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