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Originally Posted by Textcritic
In the 1970s and 1980s it was fairly common among Evangelicals to view homosexuality as a form of rebellion. It was considered a flagrant rejection of God's natural order, but as with many things within a fairly sharp apocalyptic worldview it was also easy to forgive people for being misled by dark, spiritual forces.
In the 1990s I believe there was a predominant shift in thinking among Evangelicals to treat homosexuality like a mental illness, and out of this emerged conversion therapy.
Most Evangelicals I know today are at a loss about how to reconcile primitive teachings from a handful of biblical texts with a growing recognition that sexual orientation is an unavoidable biological reality. A close pastor friend of mine recently told me that this was the next bastion of Christian theology to crumble, and it is happening quickly.
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Thus lies the issue with a tome supposedly created by an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent god. That loss should be clearly spelled out within the good book giving everyone a direct and clear path towards the ideals that God wants us to follow. Yet with all of this angst boiling up inside those that follow, all it will take is an edict from someone in a leadership position for the followers to move in a different direction. The funny thing is with all of these changes the followers don't realize that they are in fact becoming more skeptical or possibly nihilistic.