Thanks for the Jewish perspective! I have seen the first one so often, but the second one is a very new perspective. Thanks for the share!

Christianity is not limited to US-style fundamentalists, you know...

If Jesus came today and we didn’t know it was him, and preached in churches, most so called Christians would chase him out.

Taking advantage of children (in any way) is sinful. They were grooming these boys. Disgusting.

New Testament (not Gospels though) also bans homosexuality. But it was written in an ancient Roman Empire, when the most common homosexual behaviour was old rich men grooming teen boys, as written above. Author of said words couldn't have known that there will be time when real homosexual relationships of equal partners, who knows what would he thinks of those? So I think Christians shouldn't be so strict to gay people. After all, there are many places in the Bible that basically say: mind your own bussiness.

12 years of Catholic school, attending Mass every morning during first period, not once did we ever actually read the Bible, though we got tested on memorizing the catechism.

holy...

The first is wrong, since Leviticus is most likely to have been mostly composed during the Babylonian Exile, when Greece was a bunch of city states, battling the Persian Empire, and the Jews in Babylon would have had little to no contact with Greeks. So that explanation cannot stand. Moreover, it says not to sleep with a male (זָכָר) as with a woman, not a boy (terms such as נָעַר). The reasons behind the prohibition are obscure, and run from a prohibition on breaking gender roles (cross-dressing is also prohibited), to prohibition of specific non-Hebrew religious rituals, to the possibility that the text had been changed much later to fit later religious ideas, and actually was either added or even changed from a different prohibition.

Reminds me of the Cyanide and Happiness comic, where the gay couple says "Only God can judge us!" And God's sitting nearby, holding up a "10."

i hate it when people use their religon to add there hate to gay, vaccine, etc. im christan but i dont care if your black, white, gay, etc just shut up if you say that god disproves this it makes you loook like a stupid idiot and a horrible person cause you are

Welp.

Peace out fuckos😂😂

Yeah baby!!! Thank you. This is a real scholar!!!

King David was gay? But what about Bathsheba? I'm confused..

HAHA! I knew it! I figured that line was about the greeks, and boys, but never actually googled it. Thank you for that confirmation!

Pretty sure one of the other “homosexuality” mentions in the Bible is speaking out against student-teacher relationships.

Lol I always wondered ab king david also what branch of judiasm does he practice

Now I maybe miss-remembering this but didn't the Greeks separate the genders for a good portion of their history? To the point where your first sexual experience was with your own gender and you didn't really have contact with the other gender until you married. It wasn't until the Romans came into the picture that sex with your own gender was considered dirty/wrong/morally corrupt? (To be clear I'm not saying that being LGTBQ2+ is dirty/wrong/morally corrupt but that it was the view of the Romans historically) Also wasn't Sodom destroyed because the men of the city found out the angelic messengers where coming and planned to rape them. So the angels destroyed Sodom for attempted rape?

U know what would even be better? NOT getting advice from a book written by an archaic society. As he said:“deeply rooted in the time and place“. That time and place is long gone. And by the way: having sex with a 17year old is not pedophilia! And last but not least:I find it highly unlikely that a 17 year old was considered a boy or a child tow millenia ago