As if on cue, fundie religious bigot and Trumpist homophobe Franklin Graham has reacted to the statement from Pope Francis to recognize civil unions for gay and lesbian couples simply to protect their legal rights. Not marriage, mind you, just civil unions. The fulminating Franklin equates the statement to the fall of Christianity, saying on Facebook:
“For Pope Francis to attempt to normalize homosexuality is to say that Holy Scriptures are false, that our sins really don’t matter, and that we can continue living in them. If that were true, then Jesus Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection wouldn’t have been needed. The cross would have been for nothing.”
We're far from being Bible-thumpers, much less religious, but it seems that Graham's religious beliefs are based in the eye-for-an-eye Old Testament rather than the Sermon on the Mount. He's about anger, retribution and hubris, not loving your neighbor. So, basically a typical right- wing Republican.
4 comments:
The key to people like Graham really is that they don't really care or talk about Jesus Christ much at all.
For them Jesus's only real function was to die on that cross (Per the old testament). He said a few things here and there but it's only a few pages after all. A lot of what said was sort of vague anyway!
Having done that, it's OK - let's move on Revelations, where the blood and the killing and the judging and the punishing can re-commence.
bt1138 -- "Amen!"
Soooooooo many *books* in the Book of Fables - I wonder who wrote them ?
The Bible does not actually condemn homosexuality -- and never even mentions lesbians. The original language has been distorted in translation to provide that reading. Most of the passages are actually about rape.
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