Until recently I took little interest in religion and its moral. Then a huge debate blew up in Sweden about christianity and homosexuality. It is suggested that homosexuals should be allowed to mary and do so in church. Fine by me I thought. Im not religious.
Some artist created an exhibition showing jesus hanging out with gay men in rather kinky clothes. It gave rise to a lot of debate and anger but largely it was wellcomed as a great attempt to reform/point out homosexuals right in the church.
If one take a brief look in the mose book however there is a text there about sodom and gomorra. It describes how these to cities together with all its people were destroyed by God because homosexuals lived there. To me that settles it. It cant be possible to be a christian and still respect homoseuality. Actually I was chocked that the bible would go as far as propose a "genocide".
In another part of the old testimony the egyptians are punished for not letting the jews leave. Fair enough one would think but the punishment is that god kills their children by sending the deth-angel.
Quiet clearly, some parts of the bible are not very compatible with a civilized state.
I you want to rant on the koran it is just as easy. There are numerous parts in it proposing blodbaths among nonbelievers. The use of violence against non muslims etc. There is one part in the fourth surra that states "If your woman is obstructive in the bedroom, than take her from the bed and beat her".
To med this is very serious. Why should we judge religious ideologies any different from political ones? How would we regard a political ideology that suggest homosexuals are burnt to death?
Should we go down the current path of pretending that the holy books say the kind of things that we want ore should we confront them and point these things out? Personally i fell like throwing up when I read these pasages...
Some artist created an exhibition showing jesus hanging out with gay men in rather kinky clothes. It gave rise to a lot of debate and anger but largely it was wellcomed as a great attempt to reform/point out homosexuals right in the church.
If one take a brief look in the mose book however there is a text there about sodom and gomorra. It describes how these to cities together with all its people were destroyed by God because homosexuals lived there. To me that settles it. It cant be possible to be a christian and still respect homoseuality. Actually I was chocked that the bible would go as far as propose a "genocide".
In another part of the old testimony the egyptians are punished for not letting the jews leave. Fair enough one would think but the punishment is that god kills their children by sending the deth-angel.
Quiet clearly, some parts of the bible are not very compatible with a civilized state.
I you want to rant on the koran it is just as easy. There are numerous parts in it proposing blodbaths among nonbelievers. The use of violence against non muslims etc. There is one part in the fourth surra that states "If your woman is obstructive in the bedroom, than take her from the bed and beat her".
To med this is very serious. Why should we judge religious ideologies any different from political ones? How would we regard a political ideology that suggest homosexuals are burnt to death?
Should we go down the current path of pretending that the holy books say the kind of things that we want ore should we confront them and point these things out? Personally i fell like throwing up when I read these pasages...
