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Originally Posted by Lobotroth
It's incomprehensible that two people of the same sex might love each other? I guess I need my head checked.
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Not really what I am getting at. I'm suggesting that as a heterosexual male, I can't imagine how I could ever be sexually attracted to another man. In that sense, it is incomprehensible.
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Originally Posted by valo403
And yet they are able to ignore the numerous other aspects of the bible that instruct them to do things that we have long ago determined are total garbage.
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There are two parts to this sort of reaction: The first is the choice to embrace what the Bible says on the subject on the grounds that the Bible says it. The second confirms that choice by way of personal experience or impulse. Biblical endorsements of slavery are so much easier to either ignore or to apologetically rationalize because it has become so culturally foreign. "Of course slavery is wrong—ergo, there must be some other explanation for the tolerance and promotion of slavery in the Bible."