"Something interesting that I discovered a month or so ago. There was a thread on here about some preacher passing out little bags of stones to go stone homosexuals and how it says that homosexuality is against the word of God. I went to his website and there is a search engine there to search for things in the Bible. I entered in the word homosexuality and nothing came up. The word homosexuality is not in the Bible."
Actually, the term "homosexual" was not created until the late 19th century. This is, of course, in the English language, and I don't know the history of Armaic (is that what he spoke?) BUT, I believe that the term in general was not created until much after Christ was around. And he couldn't really discuss a topic that hadn't been created yet, could he?
(I am not, for the record, saying that homosexuals did not exist before then... just that it was not really recognized as a form of sexuality until much, much later.)
This works as an argument on both sides, unfortunately. Homophobes could use it as an argument that it is a recently created term and therefore NOT something that has been around forever, but on the other hand, Jesus couldn't actually condemn a subject that wasn't yet in existence...
It's very, very confusing.
But I love the fact that a leader of the church is calling you an idiot. Ha. I'm sure Jesus would have done the same. I mean, how many times did he call people of opposing viewpoints idiots? Let me go check my bible...
"You know, a little orphan girl once told me that the sun would come out tomorrow. Her adopted father was a powerful billionaire, so I supressed the urge to laugh in her face. But now, by gum, I think she might have been on to something!"
--Reefer Madness
