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Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby
@ the beaverton
(Christians aren't held to Levitical law because Jesus marks the start of a new covenant between God and humanity according to a lot of Christian theology. And as an amateur religious studies/theology person that argument even as a joke bugs me because it's just not correct. but then that also leads to me to ways in Christianity appropriates Judaism and has since at least the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by Rome and it's move from a small weirdo Jewish sect/off shoot which were common in 1st century Israel until something else entirely. but now I'm going off another tangent, 1st century christian history is the day after post cold war geo poltics. today is queer theory)
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This would be a sound rebuttal if the source of the biblical argument about homosexuality being an abomination wasn't also from Leviticus.
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