Rembers me Henlein's quote in "Time Enough for Love": Every priest or shaman should be considered GUILTY until he proofs something else.
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I'm personally not a homophobe and hate people for being gay, but I don't really like when people feel the need to bring up the fact they are gay in anyway possible. Cool! No body cares.
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Arsenokoits was used by Moses in leviticus which refers to shrine prostitution.
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Arsenkoitai in Greek is a compound word. The meaning of the base words are “men” and “paid for sex”. So it's shrine prostitution. Not homosexuality.
Leviticus is written in Hebrew, not Greek. The verse literally describes homosexuality. It says “Do not lie with a male as one would lie with a woman; it is an abomination.”
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yo, like, don't force it upon me that you're gay after telling me 230 times you know?
The Bible says “it is an abomination for a man to lay with another man as he does a woman” it doesn’t say homosexuality, it literally means gay sex. And Moses’ scriptures were written in Hebrew. He Greek form didn’t arise until much later
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As a Christian I do not fear gays nor do I hate them. Their sin is an abomination, but they are sinful people like anyone else. Christians are called to love people, not hate them. Homosexuality is a sexual sin, just like sex before marriage or orgies
[user]4554936[/user] 1. "Mormonism" is more than a religion. 2. Dear gentile, reddit is not a reliable source of information if your goal is to gather information on the general operating standards of the Church. Whether questions regarding masturbation are raised is up to the Bishop, and it is one on one and it is not forced on you in practice it is most alike a Catholic Confession, but you're facing your bishop, and they're asking specifics, you can not answer, you can lie, you can do anything of the sort. You are directly asked if you masturbate to get a Temple Recommend, this is the only time that procedure is standard, and when this question is asked, people are of age. 3. Goes back to #1, not only is "Mormon" an identifier for one's race (as proven by the fact aside from admixture, which is a concept separate from "race," and more akin to ancestry, Mormons as in the people-group cluster together, and away from other groups. We operate as our own race, the ones you gentiles would call "white" and live in the West, at least.) but also a cultural identifier. You're literally using foreign cultural standards to measure a foreign culture, my dear gentile. 4. Connecting to 1, and 3, why the hell are you not talking about the Jews and the fact some Rabbis suck the dick of a recently circumcised baby? Is it because they were oppressed? If that's your response, you're clearly ignorant about Mormon history, we had an extermination order on our heads for Christ's sake. Is it because they're a race? Same bro, we're a race, and historically that was the perspective (for retarded reasons, but they were still right). Because it's a culture? The dominate scholarly opinion within regards to Deseret Mormons, Gentiles, and Latter Day Saints (Church Members not being of the Mormon race) is that they are all very different culturally. 5. Obviously, I'm pretty pissed off. However, imagine if someone insulted an African cultural practice without even understanding it fully. People would flip their shit. This i
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This is the same thing, only one group is recognized as a "race," and a "culture" while the other (by themselves even, which makes me so pissed off at my kinsmen), is not classified as such, despite it being factual.
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Humans sinful nature. Same reason anyone does any sort of sin
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[user]14522635[/user] You sounds like a troll but I'll response as if you aren't. I'm not your google, however you obviously seem to be too lazy to do it yourself so I'll do it for you this one time. with that said if you want me to keep doing your googling for you you'll have to start paying me. https://childfriendlyfaith.org/2018/02/mormon-wants-to-end-churchs-masturbation-interviews/https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/30/a-fierce-critic-of-mormon-masturbation-interviews-now-faces-excommunication/ + if you look for them you can easily find hundreds of stories from various people about their experiences with the "masturbation interviews". That sub was a mormon sub and most of the people responding are active mormons. It's minors talking to an old man about their masturbation habits. Obviously not all bishops go into detail, but some do, and some even pride themselves for really going into detail. Plus parents weren't even allowed in the room until very recently. Fucking disgusting. I've been surrounded by the mormon church my whole life, I've learned a lot about the religion, and I have nothing positive to say about it. It's isolated me from my friends due to all of the church activities all my friends would participate in (and there are a lot of them in the mormon church for those that don't know), they dominate the politics in Utah, and I've seen the hatred towards the LGBTQ+ community first hand in my family. Fuck the mormon church and you can't change my opinion on how shitty of a religion it is. I know all about your history, we were forced to learn it in history class (again, the joys of growing up in Utah). You can respond if you want but you already know I don't give a fuck what you have to say about the mormon religion.