What the Bible Says About Homosexuality

What the Bible Says About Homosexuality

Hemant Mehta (http://www.friendlyatheist.com,   / hemant   ,   / friendlyatheist  )


Amazon link: http://amzn.to/1nsFrek


Last year, I said that the print version of The Skeptic's Annotated Bible was my favorite book of the year.

Well, that author, Steve Wells, is back with a new book. It's called Strange Flesh, and it's all about what the Bible says about homosexuality.

I asked him if I could share with all of you his first chapter, about the so-called "Clobber Verses" and he said yes. So a lot of what I'm saying here comes directly from his book.

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There are only a handful of passages in the Bible that deal explicitly with homosexuality.

Conservative Christians cite them all the time.

Liberal Christian hate these verses. They call them the “clobber verses,” since they are the verses that conservatives clobber them with.

They claim, however, that none of these verses have anything to do with the issue of homosexuality.

It sounds like one of those things we ought to be able to figure out by looking at the verses themselves. So let's do that, and see what the two sides say about them.

1) Leviticus 18:22

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

That's how bad homosexuality is, right? It's an abomination!
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Personally, there's a clear takeaway from all this. The Bible may condemn homosexuality, but as with many texts, there are ways to work around that if that's your desire. If you want to believe the Bible is truly a good book, you'll have to do a lot of rationalizing. And if you want to believe the Bible supports your anti-gay bigotry, you can make it do that, too.

Which is exactly why it's silly to say the Bible should be a rulebook for life. With so many ways to interpret it, it's not very helpful at all.

Strange Flesh is a great book. It expands on things I said in this video and says so much more. Check it out.


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