• Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    8 months ago

    Religion isn’t an issue for me.

    But sex was understood differently (as was gay marriage) in the classic age then as it is today. For instance consent wasn’t a thing.

    And no, we can’t agree on what biblical text says, whether that’s about how it should be translated, which passages take priority over which others, what is parable versus what is literal and so on.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah yeah consent wasn’t a thing. Which is why they had criminal and civil penalties for rape written on paper for over a thousand years prior. And which is why Cicero argued a rape case defense 8 decades prior to Paul. Stop making up stuff, you know they knew what rape was.

      But sex was understood differently (as was gay marriage) in the classic age then as it is today.

      Doesn’t matter. A slight difference in understanding doesn’t mean there are no laws.

      And no, we can’t agree on what biblical text says,

      I didn’t ask for your agreement.

      whether that’s about how it should be translated, which passages take priority over which others, what is parable versus what is literal and so on.

      All the games in the world won’t change what those passages say. Go ahead and try to square the circle