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This is ingenious.

This? Is some bullshit. Nobody stopped to think about context. Context plays a MASSIVE role in this.

You can’t call Christians biased and prejudiced if you don’t even take the time to get why we believe what we believe.

Tolerance my ass.

Maybe if the…

Ok, so Caroline. A lot of what you said here was very much correct, although I will clarify a few things, just to make your argument a bit stronger.

1. Leviticus is one of the five books of the Torah (the Hebrew Bible, if you will, but we prefer Torah.) It is the third book and contains the majority of the commandments (613 of them in total, no, there were not just 10) that G-d gave to the people of Israel. (supposedly)
2. Some people believe that in order to be a “good jew” one should preform as many of these commandments as is possible. Some people say that it’s all of them. This is impossible, considering the fact that more than  50 of these laws apply only to the kohanim (high priests).
3. Leviticus was not a guy. (I know you don’t know a lot about that, but assumptions make an argument weaker. I’m just trying to help.)

Here’s where you are absolutely and totally right:

All of the things being referred to in this letter are considered irrelevant to modern society.  Many of them were considered irrelevant thousands of years ago upon the destruction of the second temple in Jerusalem.  Without that temple, the Jewish people had nowhere to go to preform sacrifices because only the kohanim were actually able to preform them.  The regular person just provided the sacrifice.  Other things became irrelevant as well.

Something besides this even that people tend to forget is the interpretation of the verse from Leviticus to which everyone refers when claiming that homosexuality is a sin.  In that verse it states, “Thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman.”  What does this actually mean? Does this say anything about loving a man as one would love a woman? How about marrying a man as one would marry a woman? Or even kissing, hugging, &c.  No. It says, “Thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman.” (In other words, you can’t have sex with another man the same way you can have sex with a woman.) No shit. It’s kind of physically impossible.