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walkitoutIf you take the whole Bible super literally, it’s pretty clear that there are a whole lot of things that are absolutely forbidden, like, sometimes you’re supposed to be termed forbidden, that people don’t think about much. I don’t think the shrimp thing is that serious, but the shrimp thing is real, just as a for instance, and a lot of people who know about the pig thing forget about shrimp, or about cheeseburgers, or whatever.
It did always bother me — even when I was young, and a JW — that JW’s argued that masturbation was wrong (nothing in the Bible about that), and that they argued that oral sex was wrong (ditto) and that they acted for a time (before my time, but still) like homosexual sex, while wrong, did not count as adultery, so you couldn’t divorce a spouse for same-sex cheating. I mean, if your whole Thing is literal Bible WTFery, then just go there. Of course, the Thing isn’t really about literal. It’s about reifying some particular set of arbitrary rules and then justifying it after the fact. I was _so_ used to people acting like gay was worse than having sex outside of marriage even tho the scripture was pretty clear that both were term-able offenses.
Obviously, I no longer believe any of that garbage and haven’t for decades.
Anyway. I understand this idiot’s position because I recognize it. Obviously, I don’t agree with any of it.
https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/23/father-club-q-suspect-relieved-his-offspring-isnt-gay
Additionally, Mormon Porn Star is very funny, but definitely Too Soon.
Monotheists are horrible.
It did always bother me — even when I was young, and a JW — that JW’s argued that masturbation was wrong (nothing in the Bible about that), and that they argued that oral sex was wrong (ditto) and that they acted for a time (before my time, but still) like homosexual sex, while wrong, did not count as adultery, so you couldn’t divorce a spouse for same-sex cheating. I mean, if your whole Thing is literal Bible WTFery, then just go there. Of course, the Thing isn’t really about literal. It’s about reifying some particular set of arbitrary rules and then justifying it after the fact. I was _so_ used to people acting like gay was worse than having sex outside of marriage even tho the scripture was pretty clear that both were term-able offenses.
Obviously, I no longer believe any of that garbage and haven’t for decades.
Anyway. I understand this idiot’s position because I recognize it. Obviously, I don’t agree with any of it.
https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/23/father-club-q-suspect-relieved-his-offspring-isnt-gay
Additionally, Mormon Porn Star is very funny, but definitely Too Soon.
Monotheists are horrible.