Sodomites Should Be Thrashed Forthwith!

Gary Sisco · June-11th-2005, 10:03 AM

From Andrew Sullivan's site:

EMAIL OF THE DAY: "I couldn't agree more with your comment on 'secularism gone nuts,' and hope nobody complains about my Virginia license plate. It reads 16 EZK 49 for the Biblical definition of the sin of sodomy (Ezekiel chapter 16, verse 49): "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." Who knew so many Republicans are sodomites??"

Gary Sisco · June-12th-2005, 09:15 AM

Er, the point of the post is that Jehova didn't mash up Sodom for its sexual habits but for social practices of which he apparently very much disapproved, but which are standard issue practice for today's Republican Party. American fundamentalists like to choose to ignore any of the social teachings in the Bible, even as they continue to insist that the whole deal is a direct revelation that is to be taken literally.

In other words, they don't take it literally at all nor do they embrace its teachings. They've made up their own religion, as all religionists do. When it comes time to oppress or berate another, they turn to scripture. When it comes time for self-examination, they forget all about it.

Which is one of the reasons why I don't take people seriously who profess these kinds of belief systems in the 21st century. Get over it, already. I don't believe that people actually believe a lot of the crap that they spew.

On the other hand, their continual ignoring of what they insist is the word of "God" (despite all literary and historical evidence to the contrary) might help explain the stress on the god *fearing* part of things. They ought to fear "Him," given the way that they live their lives.

(Incidentally, if God is a He or a She, there must be a sexual mate for Him or Her somewhere; otherwise, why a gender at all? Why not God as an It?)

jesus marion joseph · June-12th-2005, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Gary Sisco

(Incidentally, if God is a He or a She, there must be a sexual mate for Him or Her somewhere; otherwise, why a gender at all? Why not God as an It?)

Didn't you see the "Hot Catholic Sex" episode of South Park? God is a gian queen spider!

patricia · June-12th-2005, 08:30 PM

I was under the impression that God has no gender, being a spirit.

I think that many people want to believe in a higher power to try to explain the things that cannot be explained.
"It's the will of God" seems to be a phrase that is used to explain the most human of catastrophies, as well as natural ones.
What kind of God would allow the cruelty that is rampant in our world today, perpetrated by human beings?? The most common explanation given is the one from the banishing of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, when they were given free will. That always makes me think that the perfect creation, up to the fifth day, was destroyed on the sixth day by the introduction of people into the mix. Thus, IMO, God abdicated his all-powerful position. Over what exactly does God have dominion??