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2013-08-30 Olde Tyme Religion

Christians should 'repent' over past treatment of gays, says Archbishop

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Posted by Fred 2013-08-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Oh the Archbdruid of Canterbury. I thought you meant a REAL archbishop, like a Catholic one,

FYI, there is no such thing as "church's traditional support fo homophobia", mainly because the term homophobia does not apply - they are not irrationally afraid of homosexuals, they simply disagree with the morality of homosexual conduct. No phobia at all.

Posted by OldSpook 2013-08-30 00:55|| 2013-08-30 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 but I am continuing to think and listen very carefully as to how in our society today we respond to what is the most rapid cultural change in this area than there has been for a very long time. We have seen changes in the idea about sexuality, sexual behaviour.

.....because the modern day winds of change always trump scriptural mandates. Besides, heterosexual activity oftentimes creates people, and people are the problem. Fossil records indicate that 99% of all the species which have ever lived are now extinct. Why should evil man not join their ranks ?

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-30 05:19|| 2013-08-30 05:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Isn't it against Islam?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-08-30 06:48|| 2013-08-30 06:48|| Front Page Top

#4 I guess the 'living, breathing' interpretation of that Leviticus 18:22-23 thingy has hit the ~~Church of England~~ Church of What's Happening Now.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-08-30 08:00|| 2013-08-30 08:00|| Front Page Top

#5 "A one sentence definition of mythology? "Mythology" is what we call someone else's religion
- Joseph Campbell

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-30 09:18|| 2013-08-30 09:18|| Front Page Top

#6 This is about par for the course for a religion founded by Henry VIII's p3n1s.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-08-30 09:31|| 2013-08-30 09:31|| Front Page Top

#7 "thy rod and thy staff" Thing?

Posted by Frank G 2013-08-30 10:33|| 2013-08-30 10:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Just sayin', if Henry had been straight, he'd have been able to find a chick he liked and stayed married to her instead of chopping her head off.

And you know what? Nothing screams "Issues!" like being the head of your own religion, who can make up whatever rules about what's honorable and what's not and deciding that you have to decapitate all your ex-wives.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-08-30 12:07|| 2013-08-30 12:07|| Front Page Top

#9 ...it was an 'honor' thingy. That's it. It was an honor chopping. It appears to be back in vogue in certain neighborhoods in Britain, just not reserved for royalty anymore.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-08-30 12:42|| 2013-08-30 12:42|| Front Page Top

#10 2000+ years of a way for different and varied tribes and locals to find a common way to communicate and be successful but the good Welby has it all figured out. I'm getting tired of the bully, I've met gays who were good people and I've met the jersey shore of gays who were just as obnoxious as the versa.

That this guy can even talk about it without fear of reprisal is the repentant. In defense of the Bible, and in a way which would have gotten me in trouble back in the day, I'm going to set the stories as a social contract. God's judgement was absolute, but always after a series of bad moves by the characters, that is not a rush of judgement

To me, ~~Detroit~~ Soddom is not a story about an almighty God destroying boys who kiss boys. Its a story about a city which becomes wealthy enough to have the celebration of excessiveness outweigh its productive class. It reached a point where the productive class could not sustain the excessive class and had to leave or become part of the problem. Those who left were participants in the excessiveness, which is why they had to leave it all behind without looking back, and absolute dismissal of the celebration of lavishness. To me its a warning about decadence and the celebration of the trivial, much like football announces saying tight end as a sexual metephor instead of a location and duty. I know they lost me when I wish an SAP selection is just sounds on the field, where I'd rather hear a player shout the right words for a blown play than a group of guys fawn over a particular popular player of the moment.

To leave ~~Detroit~~ Soddom yet still live as if in ~~Detroint~~ Soddom will earn you the same fate.

To me, seen only as an object lesson, its not about reasons for yahoos tying up gays to their chariots, or what happens to a society which can no longer sustain itself. Its about what happens when a society chooses to not sustain itself, and its then when things fall apart rather quickly.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-08-30 13:08|| 2013-08-30 13:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Stories like this always remind me of a cartoon I saw in Playboy in 1968: a man is exponding: "At one time homosexuality was a capital offense. Then it became a felony, and later a misdemeanor. Now it's been decriminalized. I for one won't be satisfied until it's mandatory.!"

It seems we are heading that way.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-08-30 13:29|| 2013-08-30 13:29|| Front Page Top

#12 The Catholic Church has been at the forefront of this issue for a long, long time -- in its own special way.

Posted by Elmearong Gurly-Brown5896 2013-08-30 17:19|| 2013-08-30 17:19|| Front Page Top

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