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  • Fun Bible Stories
    • Virgin Sacrifice
    • YHWH Sends Killer Bears
    • Judas Contradictory Death
    • 1 Enoch: The Watchers
    • The Ten Commandments
    • About The Philistines...
    • Noah's Animal Barbecue
    • Rachel's Menstrual Cycle
    • Elijah As Harry Potter
    • Lots of Incest
    • Speckled Sheep Incident
    • Jesus Lineage Part 1 & II
    • Carving Up The Concubine
    • Balaam's Talking Donkey
    • David & the Foreskins:
    • The Rest of Book of Job
    • Circumcision On The Run
    • Following The Wrong Star
    • Abraham Traffics His Wife
    • Infancy Gospel of Thomas
    • 12 Tribes of Israel
    • Bel & The Dragon
    • Phuckin' With Pharaoh
    • Music Downloads
    • True Scripture
    • The Massacre of Shechem

FOR LESBIANS: GOOD NEWS FROM THE BIBLE

AS PRIDE MONTH BEGINS...

 ...attacks on the gay community by Christian fundamentalists and rightwing family values types are again reaching a fever pitch. Never has so much aggression been targeted at trans beer cans and woke chicken. Because this antipathy is framed as an affront to deeply held religious beliefs, we need to direct our attention to the source of this anger: the BIBLE. Only an examination of the scriptural origins of this Hate-A-Thon can provide the kind of enlightenment we so desperately need.


OLD TESTAMENT/HEBREW BIBLE 

1. Leviticus/Deuteronomy
The most unambiguous Biblical admonition against homosexuality is found in Leviticus 18:22 and Deuteronomy 23:17-18. The passage reads: “If a man lies down with a male as one lies down with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They must certainly be put to death. Their blood is upon them.” 


On its face, this single Old Testament law is a prohibition against male homosexuality and it is issued directly by YHWH. But if we are to parse the language literally, then parse the fact that this law makes no mention of female homosexuality.  


So there's that.


Nevertheless, even this seemingly straightforward decree comes with caveats. First, if YHWH dictated this law to Moses, he did it about 3,200 years ago. I’m not the first to suggest that citizens of the modern world who want to enforce SOME of the 613-ish laws in the Hebrew Bible should be required to follow ALL of them. So if you are a literal Bible believer, then you not only endorse death for male homosexuals, you also support the same penalty for anyone who breaks the Sabbath (Ex. 35:2) or swears at their parents (Lev 20:9). Don't even think about mixing fabrics in the same garment.


More interesting is the topic of sacred temple prostitution, a wide spread practice in ancient shrines (let’s call them pagan for simplicity). Many religious scholars believe that the ostensible ban on male homosexuality in Leviticus is more likely an effort to marginalize competitive religious practices at Canaanite and other “foreign” worship sites . It was not a ban on homosexuality per se, but rather Yahwist priestly propaganda against unauthorized gods and cultic prostitution.  See 1 Kings 14:24 and 1 Kings 15:12 for educational passages you won’t hear during the Sunday scripture reading. 

As for the relationship between King David and Saul’s son Jonathan, that passage in 1 Samuel can be interpreted a lot of ways.  


2. NEW TESTAMENT
There is no language anywhere in the New Testament that can be accurately translated as “homosexual” or “homosexuality.” The concept of sexual orientation – including “trans” – is a modern concept that would have left the denizens of the ancient Near East puzzled. 


Jesus / Joshua ben Joseph
In the four Gospels, Jesus was extremely hostile to adulterers, Pharisees, hypocrites and scribes, but had exactly zero to say about homosexuality. Likewise, he says nothing about the topic in Acts or anywhere else. If the messiah bothered dissing scribes and hypocrites, it seems reasonable to conclude that he would have at least weighed in on something that is sooooo fraught for modern fundamentalists.  But he didn’t mention it.


Sha'ûl / Saul / Paul
That leaves us with St. Paul, the marketing genius who re-invented and repurposed Judaism to create Christianity. There are several passages in his letters where he admonishes his readers to stop with the sinning already. But is he forbidding homosexuality? 


In 1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy, the letter writer condemns a long list of sinners:  

“Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.” 


This is a general laundry list of sinner categories and (depending on which translation you like) I acknowledge that Paul is condemning gay sex. But the homosexual thing doesn't get special attention. The “abusers of themselves with men” are ranked right alongside "revilers" (no one likes a reviler and they don’t get invited to good parties).  


More importantly, let’s look at the context.  These epistles are written either by the man Paul or by a faux Paul (many of Paul’s letters are known forgeries, but that is beside the point).  

To be blunt: WHO CARES WHAT PAUL SAYS? He’s not God. He’s not Jesus. He wasn’t even a Saint for another 1800 years!


Paul was just a guy; he had his own agenda. He was selling his new religion. He didn’t even have a degree from Moody Bible School.  So while Paul seems to have a hard-on for sinning in general, he was mostly complaining about the relentlessly debauched nature of his flock. 

Now let’s circle back to lesbians. There is one particular passage in 1 Romans that is cited by Christians as evidence that female homosexuality is also forbidden: “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature.” Yeah, even the women.


But “against nature” covers a lot of ground, as does the definition of sodomy. Oral sex and anal sex are considered by family values types to be “against nature” even in a heterosexual relationship. Some even claim any coital strategy that isn’t the missionary position is an abomination in the eyes of God. Because after he checks our diets, God doesn’t really have that much to do.

 

3. King James I
The monarch who backed and financed the iconic 17th century translation of the Bible was notoriously and openly gay (another reason why it’s good to be King). Théophile de Viau, a contemporary poet, wrote “It is well known that the king of England fucks the Duke of Buckingham.” He started out as an Earl.

There are large swaths of fundamentalist Protestants who insist that the King James Version of the Bible is the only translation that can get you saved. All others are corrupt.  And yet its sponsor was a sodomite!


So: ironic I guess?  


You know what I think? If you are able mine this skimpy scriptural evidence and use it to condemn a large and growing group of people who do no actual harm, then you just might be the one with the problem. Furthermore, if you proclaim your love of freedom, why are you so comfortable taking freedom away other people? No one is forcing you to go to drag shows. No one is making you read Good Night Moon.

And if you are so concerned with “grooming” then look no further than your own religious organizations. 


Happy Pride Month.

Fascist Christian Theocracy Advances Another Step

Understand That This is A War...

Let’s not pretend the impending Supreme Court decision is anything other than what it is: The next step in a long planned and well funded plot to implement a twisted Calvinistic white Christian theocracy in the United States.   


Alito questions the 14th amendment (because originalism is nothing if not subjective) which opens the door to end birth control and same sex marriage. And that’s just a start.  Any lame attempts at making this fanaticism sound reasonable and legal are merely another diversion. 


This draconian step backwards  is clearly against the wishes of a large majority of Americans.   These people don’t want democracy. They want the Christian manifest destiny fulfilled. 


Been warning people for 20 years.


LETS BE REAL ABOUT dealing with the CLIMATE collapse

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The Climate Emergency: Mitigation vs Adaptation s

Living through the pandemic and the early days of the GOP Trump cult, there is little doubt remaining in my mind that humankind is not going to rise to the occasion in terms of eliminating carbon and methane emissions. We will squabble and deny until our options for preserving civilization as we know it have finally popped like a cheap birthday balloon.    


That is why I focus on adaptation over mitigation. There are a lot of things the average citizen can do to reduce your carbon footprint (as they say) and you already know what those things are.  Get an electric or fuel efficient car. Cut your purchases of crap. Reduce plastic. Stop drinking bottled water unless you have no choice (don’t get me started).   


But the sum total is a drop in the bucket unless you do the one thing that will begin to put the brakes on a situation that is already out of control.     Don’t vote for any Republican for any office anywhere, ever. The GOP and fake Dem Manchin serve the plundering interests. 


Until the crisis as hyperobject is truly engaged, we are toast.  And Congress and the ruling classes will not really engage until they are forced to. 


So begin to consider what your actual options are in terms of where you want to live and how you may be able to provide the  essentials for your family. 


You may think you won’t be affected, but you are wrong.   


Sorry to be real.


current affairs

Retired Evangelist Pat Robertson Says Putin Is Fulfilling Biblical Prophecy

THERE IS A REASON TO VOTE


Disappointed once again in God, but glad to see the invasion isn't Biden's fault after all. 


But - not to be too waspish - if the prophesy Christians can see this coming based on material written 2,500 years ago, why not do something to help. 


Why do I bother posting this? Well it's not because of one doddering lunatic, it because he has millions of Dominion Christian followers who are highly motivated voters. Enough to have given him hundreds of millions of dollars over the years, and a private jet that even Joel Osteen coveted.  


So if you think voting is too much work, think about who Pat Robertson's followers might be voting for. This is how we get Trump and Marjorie and Josh. The Bible reference he's talking about is Ezekiel 38, the whole Gog and Magog thing. It was written in the 6th century BCE, during the Babylon captivity. The End Times types seem to think the E man was somehow concerned about a psycho Russian dictator two - and a half millennia in the future. I believe he probably had something else on his mind.


The Ice Goeth

New research reveals that polar ice is melting from below, as two scary scenarios unfold.  

Ice shelves: These hybrid formations hug the coasts of Greenland and Antarctica, with part of the shelf floating and part on land. They serve to put the brakes on the flow of massive land glaciers into the sea. They are collapsing virtually everywhere, most notably the Thwaites Glacier (otherwise known as the Doomsday glacier) and the Pine Island ice shelf. It has slowly become clear that the warming waters beneath the shelves is accelerating the melt rate, with cascading effects.  


Land ice sheets melting from the foundation up: What is not obvious, however, is the behavior of trillions of tons of land ice, as billions of gallons of meltwater from the surface of the ice sheets flows down to the base of the mass. Falling meltwater is converted to kinetic energy as it flows downward, which heats the pools forming at the foundation of the ice sheet. This invisible process is accelerating at unprecedented rates.  The meltwater also behaves as a lubricant that increases ice flow as well as the quantity of ice discharged into the ocean.  The Antarctic ice sheet averages one mile thick and contains about 30% of the planet’s fresh water. It is already responsible for about 4% of sea level rise around the world.  Simply put, if this ice (not to mention more trillions of tons on the Greenland land mass) continue to accelerate into the Southern Ocean, the effect on coastal sea level rise will be catastrophic. Equally catastrophic will be the change in the ocean’s basic chemistry as more fresh water is added.  Fun Fact: the Twaites Glacier is about the size of Great Britain. The rate of melt has doubled in the past two decades.


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