Posted on January 8, 2008 by dannimoss
My previous post about church leaders and homosexuality opened up another interesting point, so I thought I’d dig around in it a bit.
In church, I grew up being taught that Sodom and Gommorah were destroyed because of homosexuality. Actually, the Bible says these cities were destroyed because “they were wicked and sinners” (Gen. 13:13) and [...]
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Posted on January 8, 2008 by dannimoss
In reading back over my post about God’s perspective on abusive church leaders, I was struck again by God’s choice of wording:
…they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
I have long wondered at the particular venom church leaders within fundamentalist Christianity speak of homosexuals. In the unwritten “hierarchy [...]
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