2007-01-11 16:32:06 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
First of all, I'm not gay ... but I think I'd get pretty mad if someone walked around carrying a book telling me that I was an abomination because of who I fell in love with.
Why does it bother you so much what other people do with their lives?
2007-01-11 16:35:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
How would you feel if someone called you an abomination for being different. I'm not gay but I have a lot of friends who are and you wouldn't even know it if you weren't told. A person can't choose who they fall in love with a getting called an abomination for falling in love would be upsetting to anyone. You really should be more emphatic to the people around you.
2007-01-11 16:39:56 · answer #2 · answered by Hana 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is there anything else in this life that you apply a 3000-year old label to, and get any kind of positive response. Are you following all of those toehr laws in Levitticus? When did you last stone a woman for infidelity or kill those not of your tribe who live near you for not sacrificing an animal without blemish on the sabbath? If we have proceeded culturally beyond those things, isn't it rational to assume that we have proceeded beyond calling people abominations as well?
Furthermore, just because YHVH said something like "men who lie with other men as with women are abominations", did He give you permission to go around repeating it? Did He ask you to go around repeating it? Have you assumed that these people are stupid and/or have never read it for themselves?
How would you feel?
2007-01-11 17:28:11 · answer #3 · answered by raxivar 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Once again Christians following the teachings of Christ, to respect their fellow humans. What is wrong with Christians these days, they are so cruel and evil to others on the planet? Did Jesus not say, "he or she who is without sin shall cast the first stone." when the crowd wanted to stone the prostitute? And yet you go to the Old Testament for the abomination remark to Leviticus. Well, let me show you how stupid your religious book is, since you are happy to take pages from it to insult people. You can sell your daughters into slavery, Exodus 21:7, God said so. You can possess slaves purchased from neighboring nations, Lev 25:44. Anyone working on the Sabbath should be put to death, Exodus 35:2. You may not approach the altar of God if you have a defect in your sight (obviously near sighted or far sighted, etc), or if you have a broken hand or foot, Lev 21:19-21. And the list can continue, so quit your thinking that your morals and values are better than anyone else, in fact they are worse than the rest, as the rest of us are not as judgmental as you obviously are. How pathetic.
2007-01-11 16:45:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No one has the right to call anyone else an abomination. If a gay man is an abomination, what would that make the person calling them? A condescending ****, that's what. And as we all know, Karma is a huge *****, so that's just asking for it.
2007-01-11 16:36:12 · answer #5 · answered by Allen T 1 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I don't know why they'd get so mad. I mean, gee, it's just an expression. That snowman guy never gets mad about being abominable, does he? I wouldn't be mad if somebody called me an abomination. So what's the big deal?
PS: What's an abomination?
2007-01-11 16:38:21 · answer #6 · answered by homo erectus 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
How would you like being called an abomination? Just because the bible says it doesn't mean you should. The bible says lots of things. Things about rape and incest, and slavery, and murder, but you don't see people going around shouting it from the rooftops as you do with the whole gay abomination thing.
2007-01-11 16:38:56 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's not much of a compliment. I would get a little hot under the collar if someone called me an abomination for any reason.
It is not the way to approach anyone or any subject or any behavior. I don't think God or Christ would be pleased with it.
2007-01-11 16:38:44 · answer #8 · answered by howdigethere 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because they don't like to know the truth...that their actions are an abomination to God. They are not as a person an abomination, but their actions are abhorred by God. So, when we as Christians stick up for our beliefs we are called homophobics and insulted in many different ways...but, that's what Jesus said we would endure...and maybe more.
2007-01-11 16:41:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
You should differentiate between gays who engage in gay sex and gays who live in celibacy in order to guard his chastity. Only those who have gay sex are abomination in the eyes of God, not "non-practising" gays.
God knows best
Peace and Love.
2007-01-11 17:49:46 · answer #10 · answered by mil's 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋