speaking as a Jewish person, this is incredibly important to me.
Christians in my experience know very little about the culture that is found within the stories of the old testament.
All of our stories are deeply rooted in the time and place that they occured.
Leviticus, for example, was when the Greeks were exploring and coming into contact with us.
They had a tradition of adult men having sexual relationships with boys (ages 12 to 17) as a form of mentorship.
The Hebrew people were like “uh no? Fucking gross.” Thus it ended up in our holy texts.
Sodem and gamorah is a big one too.
The smiting that happened there wasn’t because of homosexuality, but rather the nonstop eating, drinking, and fucking to the point of ruin.
Basically everyone was so busy with pleasure that the rest of the aspects of life no longer mattered to them. this was both a spiritual disaster and a very literal one for people outside the city who depended on it for goods and services.
so the two stories that Christians hold as anti gay evidence can be summed up in two parts:
- Pedophilia is fucking evil.
- You can’t be selfish and just party all the time because then your community will fall apart.
So yeah we have never seen gay stuff as bad and neither did your homie Jesus.
also. We have words in Hebrew for several different genders and many scholars believe that King David was gay.
I
have read that the Australian bush is recovering and that gives me
hope. Even if it takes a long time, even if it does not bring back the
billions of animals. Even if wild fires are still taking place all over
the world. I want to have hope
harry potter said i am going to dedicate myself to having a rivalry with a boy who goes to my school who said something sort of rude to my friend and i am going to let almost my whole school experience be defined by him and i am going to constantly be looking for ways to initiate contact with him even if it is the the form of schoolyard bullying and i am going to use my magical map to stalk him and stare at his location on said map while i am laying in bed at night listening to my best friend talk about girls and my obsession with this boy is going to be discussed amongst my friends and it will eventually lead to a tense and heartbreaking interaction in a bathroom in which he tries to hurt me and i succeed in hurting him but i didn’t mean to and i cry over his body and then after i leave school i don’t see him for months but he still crosses my mind and when i do see him he doesnt reveal my identity and thus saves my life and i escape and i steal his wand and later i save him from dying in a fire and he throws a wand to me so i can defeat the dark lord and then i testify on his behalf to keep him from going to prison. i am also a heterosexual
This is what hozier meant when he says he falls a little bit in love everyday with someone new
I once watched a girl in the produce aisle pick up a bushel of bananas that were precariously perched on the edge and move them farther back and under her breath she said “there you go sweeties - that will be more comfortable” before shuffling off and… I think about her often.
