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[–] AbouBenAdhem 311 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Pope Francis: ”Today the ugliest danger is gender ideology, which cancels out differences ... Erasing differences is erasing humanity.”

St. Paul: ”There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Jesus Christ.”

[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Came here looking for someone to have quoted this. I quote it to bigots all the time and it straight pisses them off.

[–] ninjabard 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I used it in a wedding between two men that I officiated.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good use for it! My best friend is a former Baptist preacher who still occasionally preaches at different churches, and he likes to use it whenever that comes up.

Mind if I ask if it was a religious ceremony?

[–] ninjabard 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not really, but both grooms gave me a verse to read and they pretty much gave me carte blanche for the rest of the ceremony.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I love the idea of an officiant with total free reign. "You may now kiss... The grooms mother on the cheek. ... Just playing, y'all. They gonna dance. Dance, boys!"

[–] feedum_sneedson 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Tell that to a slave, but I get the sentiment.

[–] nogooduser 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s a message of how things should be, not how things are.

[–] StereoTrespasser 7 points 4 months ago

It's actually a message that all are welcome to be baptized, but people love to quote it out of context for the issue du jour.

[–] captainlezbian 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The message was that Christian’s shouldn’t look down on slaves or see them as any lesser. I see it as calling people to act as John Brown, to not only free the slaves but to look at them as one’s full equals

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Except for all the verses on how to properly punish and manage your slaves as well as detailing how slaves must serve their masters.

The book has a detailed record of how it considers slaves different from people.

[–] captainlezbian 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Not disagreeing that it’s a contradictory mess. It’s why sola scriptura is a ridiculous theology that can justify anything and that even tradition doesn’t fix it. But also that’s the vibe I got from that epistle. Though if it was written by Paul I probably misinterpreted it, but iirc it wasn’t wasn’t one of the Pauline epistles.

ETA: it looks like it’s the first of Paul’s letters. Paul was weird. Early Christianity basically took an extremely egalitarian stance, but Paul contributed romanization of it and implemented a lot of the misogyny, justification of power, etc that we all know and hate about Christianity. That wave was where Christianity went from what today we would consider an internationalist anarcho communist movement packaged in a religious cult and began the dismantling of the revolutionary elements of it into a religion where the most progressive leader in centuries is condemning transness as a concept and bars women from the priesthood. A religion that left the pacifism it began with and became the state religion of the Roman Empire without actually changing the Roman Empire’s cultural rules. Where certain things the cultists would’ve likely been more accepting of than Roman pagans became condemned as pagan and anti Christianity.

And it’s important to remember this only happened because Jesus if he was real and accurately recorded, was likely a man suffering the beginnings of a mental illness while preaching.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It’s why sola scriptura is a ridiculous theology that can justify anything

Fun fact, in formal logic once you accept a contradiction, you can literally prove anything.