• cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    White light is a tightly squished rainbow, so I guess these people’s only option is to all go blind.

    I mean, more blind than they’re now.

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    Right wing conservative “Christians:”

    Libs are snowflakes!

    Also

    I’m triggered by a sequence of colors!

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      Right wing Christians (don’t put it in quotes, don’t do a No True Scotsman, they’re Christians) hate rainbows now and I can’t love it more because it ruins their precious Noah story for them.

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        The guy has a dope, but do people really think they hate rainbows and not what this flag is supposed to represent?

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      It’s even dumber because a rainbow doesn’t necessarily mean LGBTQ. Sometimes rainbow is just rainbow.

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        Kids love rainbows. I’m an adult and I love rainbows. They are literally fun colors and beautiful.

        If your religion is making you hate rainbows, it might be time to take a look at your religion and the batshit stuff it teaches you.

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          The rainbow was hijacked from the Abrahamic religions by the homosexuals.

          Instead of hating rainbows, I’m teaching my children that the LGBTQ+ community is part of shaitan’s army.

          I’m even thinking that every year, for a month, we take a family vacation to Saudi Arabia to avoid the child grooming agenda in the month of June across the western world.

          I’ve also been filtering all tv shows/cartoons that present us with LGBTQ+, like in bluey, that British pig show, and sesame street etc… thank God for torrents, amirite?

          No worries tho, my children won’t be taught to hate, they will be taught to avoid like the black plague and to only stick with the community/ummah.

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              lol did you report my comment?

              Nah, we Muslims have different priorities, a different culture, different way of life. It’s why we’re incredibly difficult to sway off the path.

              If and when the secularists turn a Muslim into one of them, take that as a trophy. You’ve achieved almost the impossible.

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        Rainbows? In the sky? Where kids can see? Fucking wokeys mate, making the fucking sky GAY.

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    Rule in his favor, then I have precedent to sue every church, business, and government entity that displays a cross. ❤️

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    This lifeguard only THINKS they’re a Christian. A real Christian wouldn’t care because not only does GOD love all, but we’re all made in his image. Gay L, straight, Bi, Trans, Asexual. All of us.

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      No true scottsman

      He’s a Christian like any other and Christians will have to recognize that their beliefs are responsible for a lot of homophobia, instead of saying that anyone who makes them look bad is not a “true” Christian.

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        Technically speaking the wickedness of the cities that were under divine review were because they were narcissistic, enjoyed excess and “prosperous ease” without considering properly the poor and did “abominable acts” before God. Those abominable acts could have been anything. We get the homosexuality related misconception because the test involved hosting two angelic dignitaries disguised as humans whom a mob decended on an demanded they let them “know”…

        Funny trick here. The original Hebrew text used for the angels was anashim and the OG word Lot uses for them when he greets the dignitaries is non-gendered as analogous to “master”. Anashim is a non-gendered term, it encompasses specifically both the terms woman and man and means “of mankind”. However, the English translations of the Bible use male gendered terms like “Lords” “Gentlemen” and “Men” for the angels… Meaning the lust for the angels in the original story was probably not gendered. The angels in the original are not named nor gender coded in any way but there were specifically two of them. We might interpret this to mean there were either angels that appeared to be of both genders or that the genders were deliberately not important because the pluralism means they are never gendered by any other mention in the story. Just as in English when a plural is used it disguises the individual nature of the particular makeup of the group. The crowd calls to know “them”.

        The test was ultimately a litmus test failure of the town to show it lived up to the laws of hospitality and morality but there’s nothing specifically outlining gay sexuallity in the original text of that story moreso than any other sexuallity. The abominations could have been anything and the horny onslaught against the angels was potentially supposed to be coded as lust to defile or possess the divine or even just a lack of consent. The crowd isn’t asking if the angels want to come out and play, they are demanding it.

        In the end it was a bunch of English translators who had very specific cultural ideas about who was worthy of the term “Master” that occluded any potential of the feminine potential reading and were the ones who through the cultural game of telephone made it a story about gay sex. It kind of benefited the Church to make it less a story about hoarding wealth and comfort because a lot of individual Churches were very VERY wealthy.

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      The fact that he was able to sue… especially in the state of California of all places. This could actually be a trend for the entire nation.

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    What if the homophobic lifeguard sees someone drowning that “looks gay”? I don’t know if this guy can do his job.

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    So if there is some light Rian with sunshine and a rainbow pops up, will he sue god? I’m just wondering.

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    I’m sick of Christians who work for the public suing because they don’t want to do their jobs.

    If you cannot serve the whole public, quit your job in public service.

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      Sometimes, a “reasonable accommodation” is to let them quit.

      It cracks me up though. they accomodated him. Put him at a station that didn’t have a flag. then he went and removed the 3 other flags that were simply in view…

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          Hasn’t been to church in a bit I guess…

          13 I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 15 and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

          Genesis 9:13-17

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        What I hate the most is that his whole excuse is bullshit. The Bible dosen’t even know what being gay is, it’s only against bronze age booty thief power displays, it knows absolutely nothing about being trans, these people really need to start specifying that they are against ‘loving thy neighbor’ because they interpret out of context verses written in old English they don’t understand to mean they can hate people they don’t like or are currently pretending not to be one of.

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          Yup it’s simply hateful, spiteful people being assholes. Inconsiderate pricks using religion as an excuse to be inconsiderate pricks.

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          Early Modern English.

          Here’s John 3:16 in Old English: “God lufede middan-eard swa þæt he sealde hys akennedan sune þæt nan ne for-wurðe þe on hine ge-lefð. Ac habbe þt eche lyf.”

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          There have always been gay people, and in every culture, though. While trans is a relatively modern concept, there have definitely been gender-variant people across cultures too.

          The fact that it’s been vaguely mentioned at all in the Bible suggests it was a non-issue. Romans, for example, social advancement revolved around patronage… which involved gay sex.

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            The only modern part of things are the hormone medicines and surgeries we have now. And the language and terms we use. But people being trans, intersex, both sexes, neither, etc, etc is as old as humanity as far as we can tell. There are ancient examples of things like I think it was a grave of a person born female, but was buried with armor and honors of an exclusively male role, like a warrior something. Like a “Mulan” type thing. Which means either nobody knew they were born female or it didn’t matter.

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          it’s only against bronze age booty thief power displays

          I was once in a band called Bronze Age Booty Thieves. Our first album Power Displays didn’t sell too well…