An Anti-Theist’s Interpretation Of The Bible’s Opinion On Same-Sex Marriage

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An Anti-Theist’s Interpretation Of The Bible’s Opinion On Same-Sex Marriage
April 29, 2015 by Peter Mosley

Here’s my interpretation of the Bible’s opinion on Same-Sex marriage:

Anything derogatory it says about same-sex marriage is nothing more than prejudice against gay individuals by primitive tribes.

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So, what I’d like you to do is throw your Bible away. Because, honestly, this is ridiculous. Why the heck would you hang on to that ancient rulebook crafted by bigots? It’s time to look past that to people who exist and who love each other.

I guess that’s why I’m an anti-theist. I see progressives and conservatives and fatheists arguing over what God supposedly “REALLY” said, and I’m standing here like — can we move pass this? Can we move past trying to get to the “true” meaning of texts and start looking at, like, the flesh and blood people right in front of us?

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I mean, this is absurd. I’m tired of being trapped in a stone age when there are people in the current age who want to show their love for each other.

Let’s quit making this so damn complicated. Two people love each other. They want to get married. Awesome.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/barrierbreaker/an-anti-theists-interpretation-of-the-bibles-opinion-on-same-sex-marriage/

Leave it to an anti-theist to point out the obvious: "when you’re trying to engineer an egalitarian society, messing with nonexistent variables doesn’t seem all that helpful."

[Warpy]

1. Well, a careful reading of most of the pronouncements against gays

would turn up two facts: first, god said nothing, it was all the rantings of the priests; and second, most of it was an indictment of male on male pederasty.

However, most religious ranters never read it at all.

[beam me up scottie]

9. You mean god didn't write the bible?

The religious read only the parts they're told to read and disregard the rest.

If you're allowed to ignore parts of the rulebook doesn't that prove how worthless it is as a rulebook?

[Warpy]

11. Quotes from god are actually few and far between

and you'd think if he was as sex obsessed as his priests were, then gay sex would have made that ten commandments, along with abortion.

Unfortunately, the morons who say "god did it" to everything they can't understand (which is nearly everything) don't see it that way. To them, god sat down and wrote the KJV in English.

[Binkie The Clown]

2. You are forgetting the most important fact.

Iron age goat-herders where so much more wise and sophisticated than we are.

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3. Modern day followers aren't much better.

Parsing through the bible trying to find the Truth™, yeah, that's not a monumental waste of time.



Like the author said "Let’s move on, guys. Throw that book away, loosen up and cheer a gay wedding, support lgbt individuals and then, like, let’s get some ice cream or play ping pong or something."

[Binkie The Clown]

6. My sister goes to Bible Study every week

I ask her if that's so she can learn which parts of the Bible to ignore, and which parts to misrepresent.

Needless to say, she is praying for my soul.

[beam me up scottie]

8. I get prayed for too.

Obviously they're doing something wrong.

[bvf]

5. And they're still among us,

begging to be told what to think.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Plus 1700 years of piling on the justifying bullshit.

They are very good at it.

[mr blur]

13. Yes, they were, because they had "other ways of knowing" -

Like some of our own frequent visitors here in the Religion & Spirituality section

[Cartoonist]

4. ancient rulebook crafted by bigots

But you have to consider the history of those times. Everyone was a bigot then. Look out your window. You don't see any bigots nowadays. You do? And those bigots are holding a Bible? Yeah, it is time to throw it out.

[beam me up scottie]

10. A bigoted rulebook used by all to promote what they think is important.

Just ignore everything else.

And we're supposed to be able to tell which factions are interpreting it correctly how, exactly?

[AlbertCat]

12. Theology

It's like arguing over whether Santa Claus comes down the chimney head first or feet first.

Thousands of years of uselessness. And it seems most religions kill people over things that aren't even in the original holy books, but theological crap piled up over the centuries.



This of course also relates to the "Dennett is a poppy-head" lame hit piece making the rounds. "You can't possibly understand religion unless you know all about the useless baloney we've made up about it since it started".

Yes you can. You can understand it's made up guesses by profoundly ignorant ancient peoples.

[beam me up scottie]

14. Igel posted a better analogy: two symmetrically opposed butt-cheeks

I know we're not supposed to link to the toxic wasteland but this post is a real gem.

[Panich52]

15. Would Rec if my rc button was working...

[beam me up scottie]

17. That's okay.

My mom always said it's the thought that counts!

[deucemagnet]

16. But it's more nuanced and complex than that!

Why don't anti-theists ever see the nuance and complexity? Also: bigotry fascism.

[beam me up scottie]

18. We're not fashion experts.

Therefore we're not qualified to comment on the Emperor's wardrobe choices.