speaking as a Jewish person, this is incredibly important to me.

Christians in my experience know very little about the culture that is found within the stories of the old testament.

All of our stories are deeply rooted in the time and place that they occured.

Leviticus, for example, was when the Greeks were exploring and coming into contact with us.

They had a tradition of adult men having sexual relationships with boys (ages 12 to 17) as a form of mentorship.

The Hebrew people were like “uh no? Fucking gross.” Thus it ended up in our holy texts.

Sodem and gamorah is a big one too.

The smiting that happened there wasn’t because of homosexuality, but rather the nonstop eating, drinking, and fucking to the point of ruin.

Basically everyone was so busy with pleasure that the rest of the aspects of life no longer mattered to them. this was both a spiritual disaster and a very literal one for people outside the city who depended on it for goods and services.

so the two stories that Christians hold as anti gay evidence can be summed up in two parts:

- Pedophilia is fucking evil.

- You can’t be selfish and just party all the time because then your community will fall apart.

So yeah we have never seen gay stuff as bad and neither did your homie Jesus.

also. We have words in Hebrew for several different genders and many scholars believe that King David was gay.

Peace out, fuckos.

I’m a Christian. And I fucking LOVE hearing about the actual custom that surrounds the Old Testament of the Bible.

Fun fact: Christians AREN’T EVEN SUPPOSED TO GO BY THE OLD TESTAMENT. Jesus brought in the new Covanent. THAT is what we’re supposed to go by. Old Testament should be treated as a creation myth fables of cautionary tales of morality. That is ALL. And HEY LOOK NOTHING BAD ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY IN NEW TESTAMENT. But omg knowing the Old Testament was against pedophillia so much is amazing.

Thank you so much for including the culture behind this bit though I appreciate it to no end.