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ORIGINAL: DesFIP

Being a Reconstructionist Jew, I am blessedly free from all this self loathing the rest of you suffer from. There is a passage somewhere, probably Leviticus, that talks about unnatural practices. Now most religious types think that homosexuality and BDSM are unnatural. But the passage doesn't say that, either in English or Hebrew, it just talks about how you shouldn't engage in unnatural practices. Us Reconstructionist types interpret this as not doing something that is unnatural for you.

Using this, it means a homosexual hiding his true self, getting married to a woman and trying to act heterosexual is sinning simply because he is not being true to himself. Using that same logic, someone who is wired for a BDSM relationship, but who gets instead into a vanilla one, making himself and his partner miserable, is being unnatural.

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It is the concept of Original Sin that i have a problem with, that all people have to bear the blame for Adam and Eve. my God isn't that kind of asshole. your god may vary. Instead of each baby born flawed and full of sin and if that child doesn't do this or that, its going into a lake of fire is just horrible to think about. Jesus said God is like my parents. my mom and dad would never disown me because of something my eldest brother did.

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ORIGINAL: Dnomyar

If we were created in God's image how come we are not clones???

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ORIGINAL: Amaros

I've given a few people pause who were lecturing me on (hetero) anal sex with this one: 

The Bible says: "A man shall not like with a man as if he was a woman"

There's only one way that that is physically possible...

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ORIGINAL: SailingBum

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ORIGINAL: MissSCD

I don't think the Ten Commandments state thou shalt not commit BDSM.
There are parts some religions have to astain from; however, I have found the mix to work as long as you are true to yourself and your creator.
 
Regards, MissSCD

For those ppl who believe in Christianity. There is only one commandant.  The golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.  I'm in deep shit now.  I have broken that one a few zillion times

BadOne

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ORIGINAL: Aswad

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ORIGINAL: Justme696

oh "god" more to read

Assuming you've read a couple of versions of the Bible, here's a couple of articles for you:

Documentary Hypothesis (Jahwist source, Elohist source, Deuteronomist source, Priestly source, Julius Wellhausen, Book of Joshua, Richard E. Friedman), Jerome and the Vulgate, Torah, Tanakh, Midrash, Mishnah, Dead Sea scrolls, Synoptic problem, Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, Coptic language, Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Judas, Gospel of Mary, Refutation of all Heresies, The Sophia of Jesus Christ, The Nag Hammadi library, Ecumenical councils, Saul of Tarsus, Authorship of the Pauline epistles.

Before you read any of them, though, order both parts of Lingva Latina Per Se Illvstrata.

It's a pair of books written in Classical Latin (yes, even the copyright information is in Classic Latin) that will take you from knowing absolutely nothing about Latin, to being able to read Cicero and the like. More to the point, it will give you the tools to process the Vetus Latina. If you wish, it might be useful to also visit the Franciscan Archive to order their courses on Liturgical Latin, as the Nova Vulgata is in a modern dialect, and may be of some interest to you. That may also be useful in correspondence.

Health,
al-Aswad.

P.S.: You'll of course need to go deeper than WP and these few books in order to get a good picture, but it's a starting point.

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ORIGINAL: OmegaG

What he most objected to was those who followed the letter of the law rather then following the spirit of the law.  He felt that people should know why it was good for them to follow certian practices and the Pharasise(sp) were more interested in dictating protocol for it's own sake.

I believe that's backwards: the Pharisees were more like evangelicals, they moved and lived among the people - Yeshua was a Pharisee, "the law was made for man, not man of the law". The Saducees were temple priests and had more to gain by enforcing the letter of the law and colluding with the Romans.

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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth

 

And the #1 Reason there is no "Book of Jesus" in the Bible...

 

He wrote a great one but he's on a 2000+ year 'waiting for approval' from his Mod?

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ORIGINAL: Jeffff

Let he , who is without sin, cast the first stone................
Let she who is filled with sin......contact me on the otherside

Jeff

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ORIGINAL: Jeffff

The best thing about being raised Catholic.......it makes sex dirty..:)
Jeff

Oh Jeff.... I'm sure there's lots of things one could find to make sex dirty [;)]   hmmmm I wonder, what does it make me if I love dirty sex?

girly

The BEST thing about being raised jewish..........it makes all you non jews dirty...[:D]