ouirdeaux
Caring, Understanding, Non-judgemental Type
That's pretty much the attitude of people here who are sympathetic to religion, but want to distance themselves from the nastier bits. For example, the Old Testament says that gay men should be put to death. The New Testament, thanks to Paul, added women to the mix, just in case they thought they had a get-out clause.But frankly I can't give any credence or respect to the sort of religion which says - oh just ignore those bits you don't like or are uncomfortable with they're just old hat.
Modern liberal Christians have to explain this away. They can be very ingenious. Paul was referring to prostitutes. Or to people who weren't gay, but had gay sex, which wasn't being true to their nature, so they weren't really gay. (No, seriously, I've come across this.). Gay people are OK, according to the liberals, as long as they conduct their relationships with integrity (and aren't prostitutes or weird hetero posers) and don't act like cunts. That's what would have been in the Bible, if anyone had bothered to say it.
But it's all rather silly. It's like trying to maintain that Mein Kampf isn't really antisemitic, and actually has some good things to say. Hey, it was just of its time, lots of people had those ideas about the Jews, let's not get bogged down with trivialities, we think differently nowadays.