"Ugly and droningly monotonous." "Desecrates the created order."
This is how you describe people made in the image of God - which, per Genesis 1:27, includes the full spectrum of humanity.
A few days ago you claimed to someone from the lgbtq+ community that they were loved. However, this is where your theology lands. Not Matthew 25. Not welcome the stranger. Not care for the vulnerable. Just contempt for people living their lives, dressed in creation language.
By their fruits, Aaron, and your fruit continues to show rot.
It's interesting that a person literally taking God's name in vain thinks counter to his bigotry can only come from AI rather than an actual (attempt at) understanding of the text in the Bible and the context which it was written in.
They can't make a coherent argument, don't want an actual exchange - they immediately block, and only use the Bible as a shield for their bigotry rather than attempting to live by the teachings of Jesus - welcome the stranger, care for the vulnerable, and heal the sick.
Leviticus 20:13 is tribal law from a Bronze Age community actively differentiating itself from surrounding Canaanite cultures - including local sex cults. That's the context that generated those laws.
Since you're applying it universally:
Do you wear mixed fabrics? Leviticus 19:19.
* Do you eat shellfish or pork? Leviticus 11.
* Do you mix dairy and meat? Exodus 23:19.
* Have you ever had sex outside marriage?
* Has a woman in your life ever entered a place of worship during her period? Leviticus 15:19.
If the answer to any of those is yes - you're not applying Leviticus consistently. You're selecting the verses that target people you already wanted to target.
The text you posted doesn't survive your own standard of application.
@mmamasaidd@_YHWH_12@aaron_p_edwards Yes. Exactly. Violently assaulting strangers you were obligated to protect is the definition of inhospitality. That's the point. Ezekiel 16:49 confirms it. The text interprets itself.
Glad we agree.
@latorus_sermos@_YHWH_12@Wave_E_Gravy It's always amusing when people refuse to read something within the context that it was written in.
The story of Sodom is about hospitality laws and how you treat and care for strangers.
Ironically, many Christians have turned it into a story justifying mistreating strangers.
You never produced the Fortune 500 citation.
Instead you landed on "80-85 IQ" racial generalizations - which is where this was always going. That's not a counterargument. That's scientific racism dressed up in pseudoscience.
The research I cited used identical resumes, matched testers, and controlled variables. Your response is a debunked racial IQ hierarchy that legitimate researchers abandoned decades ago.
You didn't refute the data. You revealed why you don't want to accept it.
Fair point on the IAT - there's legitimate debate about its predictive validity for individual behavior. I'll drop it.
What doesn't rely on the IAT at all: resume callback studies using identical applications where only the name differs. Those are behavioral field experiments. PNAS found no improvement in hiring discrimination against Black applicants over 25 years.
On housing: HUD audit studies use matched testers with identical financial profiles specifically to control for credit, DTI, and income. Race is isolated as the variable by design.
Your source is the Washington Free Beacon - rated Right Bias, Mixed Factual by Media Bias Fact Check. That means it "may utilize strong loaded words, publish misleading reports, and omit information that damages conservative causes." Your words about activist-driven research apply more cleanly to your own source than mine.
Still waiting on your Fortune 500 citation.
To be fair - I would wager that in the modern world, God would be more apt to destroy the strongholds of so-called Christian Nationalists who commit all forms of heinous crimes and attrocities and attribute them to God than God would go after people peacefully living their lives loving their partners.
@LionofJudah444@_YHWH_12 What makes you think it's AI?
I can't ask the person who doesn't at all understand the bible but is actively taking the lords name in vain by going by YHWH since they blocked me immediately after offering to teach me. 🤣
You said "link them and I'll tear them apart." Here they are:
Harvard/PNAS 2023: implicit racial bias highest among white Americans. Project Implicit: 75% of respondents showed automatic White+positive/Black+negative associations. Pew Research: 48% of white Americans showed implicit preference for whites over Black Americans. Identical resume studies, replicated multiple times: white-sounding names get significantly more callbacks. Minneapolis housing data: Black families earning $167K less likely to get loans than white families earning $42K.
Now your claim: "under 10% of Fortune 500 hires are white men."
Fortune magazine's own data says white employees made up 32% of new hires - the largest single group. White men hold 49.7% of Fortune 50 board seats and 72% of senior corporate leadership, while comprising 31% of the US population. They're overrepresented at every level.
Your number doesn't exist. Where did you get it?
Genesis 19 describes men demanding sex with angels - divine beings. Jude 1:7's "strange flesh" (heteras sarkos) refers to that - the same unnatural crossing of human/divine boundaries Jude references in verse 6 with the angels who left their proper dwelling. It's not describing consensual same-sex attraction.
More importantly: Ezekiel 16:49 is the Bible interpreting its own story. "She and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy." No sexual sin listed. At all.
When the Bible itself tells you what Sodom's sin was, that takes precedence over later readings built on a single ambiguous verse.
You muted me because you could never satisfactorily answer why you consistently put Paul ahead of Jesus. What you needed from me was to accept that Paul supersedes Jesus - and I wouldn't.
That's why you called it "talking past each other." We weren't. You just couldn't answer the question.
The mute didn't stop you reading. It stopped you having to respond.
Your theology is a shield for bigotry, hatred, and exclusion. You have more in common with the Pharisee than with any disciple of Jesus.
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🐶 It's not the end. Absolutely not. It seems some of you have misunderstood because of our song's vibe. it's just the concept
Imagine the irony - Sodom and Gomorrah had nothing to do with sexual preference. It was related to ancient near Mid-East hospitality laws and how you welcome and care for the stranger.
Using that is more a representation of how you, Aaron, and others are teaching people for who they're attracted to.
Sodom was destroyed because the inhabitants of the city were violently hostile towards strangers they should have been welcoming into their community.
I'm actually a Non-Pauline Christian Humanist. I put a particular emphasis on Jesus's teachings - particularly from Mark and Matthew, and Luke where it agrees with the two others; as well as James - as he was Jesus's brother and inheritor of the Movement Jesus founded.
Do you find Jesus's teachings 'progressive' and not worth interacting with as well?
You haven't answered the question: what has he gotten right? Additionally, what is the truth that he loves? Lastly, which teaching of Jesus has he put forth consistently?
"The Lord hates sin" and "love your enemies" - you posted both within minutes of each other. Which Christ are you describing? Because the one in the Gospels said the greatest commands are love of God and love of neighbor. Not "destroy the weed."
And as for when God "rained fire on Sodom" - Ezekiel 16:49 tells you exactly what that sin was: Inhospitality to strangers, excess, and arrogance. It was violently refusing the stranger. It was a hospitality law penalty.
Is excluding people, 'othering' people, decrying people as demonic hospitable? Is it treating others with love and kindness - caring for them?
Does it survive Jesus's fruits test?