What is Reddit's opinion of Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church?

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Since some of the opposition is imagined to be due to religious reasons, It might be helpful to read what Jack Rogers, a conservative Christian theologian, discovered when he studied the Bible on this subject.

Have an upvote for continuing the conversation with me. People calling you satanic are wrong. Even if they have "official" positions, they don't speak for all of Christianity.

The Rev. John T. Graves, a Christian minister, was the president of the Society for Human Rights, the first US gay rights organisation, organised in Chicago in 1924. Perhaps you don't know of the powerful work of Bayard Rustin.

You should know about the Heartland Proclamation, signed by hundreds of Christian pastors and ministers in the US Midwest.

You should know that a former moderator (president) of the Presbyterian church, Dr. Jack Rogers, a trained conservative theologian, studied what the Bible has to say about homosexuals, and wrote this book.

>They also don't claim to be the purveyors of ultimate, unquestionable, truth.

Truth that can't be questioned can't be very robust now, can it? You and I are on the same side on this one.

>If there are contradictions in the Bible, then it's impossible to say what parts of it represent truth; in that case, the whole thing must be discarded since there's no way to distinguish truth from lies/mistranslations/misinterpretations/etc.

One could just as well say the same thing about science. The whole reason for the fifth Solvay conference in 1927 was because of the contradictions of quantum mechanics, and the impossibility of resolving them through experimental means. There is still no way to test most of the interpretations, and yet, most of us are not throwing out science because of it.

>Show me literally anywhere in the Bible that says this. Jesus was very clear that he was not sent to erase the OT laws;

Jesus was completely clear about what he meant in upholding the OT:

>Matthew 22:36-40

>36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

>37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

This is not vague, and I submit that love is an excellent measure for morality.

My purpose here is not to convince you that you should somehow forgive the hate that has been shoved at you in the name of Christianity or that you should somehow "trust" it. But you should still know that there are many Christians, Muslims*, and other religious people who fully support you to be who you are.

• People reading this should know that Naheed Nenshi, the Muslim mayor of Calgary, Canada, led the Pride parade there last year.

You might be missing the fact that some of the very first voices for gay rights in the US came from religious people acting from their understanding of the Gospel. Bayard Rustin is an important example, although far from the first or last.

Dr. Jack Rogers, a conservative Christian theologian and former moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) , had the same opinion you do, but when he set out to prove it from the Bible, he ended up writing this book.