• Etterra@lemmy.world
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    Right wing conservative “Christians:”

    Libs are snowflakes!

    Also

    I’m triggered by a sequence of colors!

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      Right wing Christians (don’t put it in quotes, don’t do a No True Scotsman, they’re Christians) hate rainbows now and I can’t love it more because it ruins their precious Noah story for them.

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        The guy has a dope, but do people really think they hate rainbows and not what this flag is supposed to represent?

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            Really? Sure as fuck? Well, this should be easy for you to prove then. Or were you lying?

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              For example, this guy complaining that the rainbow has been ruined for religion ever since it was “secularized” but the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

              https://www.ezrainstitute.com/resource-library/articles/reclaiming-the-rainbow-responding-to-lgbt-challenges-with-grace-truth/

              I’m sure you’ll say this won’t count because this is your typical M.O.

              I look forward to you berating me because actually Somewhere Over the Rainbow is about sucking cock or something.

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                I don’t see where in this article where it shows that “They sure as fuck complain every time they see a rainbow anywhere.”

                It don’t even see where it shows this individual complaint when he sees a rainbow outside of on the flag.

                Could you be more specific?

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                  Called it.

                  I love that I even told you what he said and you claim you don’t see it. Try a control-F for the word 'somewhere." That should help.

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    That someone who believes in the Bible and is professionally contracted to prevent people from drowning is being upset they are doing that job near the Biblical symbol of a covenant not to drown humanity again is making me drown in the irony.

    Please send help.

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    White light is a tightly squished rainbow, so I guess these people’s only option is to all go blind.

    I mean, more blind than they’re now.

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    What if the homophobic lifeguard sees someone drowning that “looks gay”? I don’t know if this guy can do his job.

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    Jeffery Little, who has worked for the city for 22 years, filed a lawsuit on Friday claiming he is being discriminated against for his evangelical faith by being made to stand in the same vicinity as the Progress Pride flag. Little alleges he was suspended from his role with the department’s background investigation unit last year after he took down three LGBTQ+ flags during Pride month.

    The Los Angeles county board of supervisors voted last year to require the rainbow banner be flown during the month of June at government buildings, which includes lifeguard stands. Little, who claimed the flags present a “direct conflict” with his religious beliefs, fought to be placed at stations that would not fly the flag, as they did not have the right flag poles to fly any banner.

    I gotta go to work so I’ll leave that to comment for myself.

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    The lifeguard seemed particularly triggered by the turquoise and pink stripes on the original Pride flag designed by Gilbert Baker, which represent magic and sex, respectively.

    Gonna go out on a limb and say that this man is no fun at parties.

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    This lifeguard only THINKS they’re a Christian. A real Christian wouldn’t care because not only does GOD love all, but we’re all made in his image. Gay L, straight, Bi, Trans, Asexual. All of us.

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      No true scottsman

      He’s a Christian like any other and Christians will have to recognize that their beliefs are responsible for a lot of homophobia, instead of saying that anyone who makes them look bad is not a “true” Christian.

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        Not true. I’m a Christian who’s studying to be a minister and I am an allay. I support LGBTQ individuals right to marry, adopt, basically live their lives as equal members of the human race, because that’s what they are.

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      Uhm… do you even Sodom and Gomorrah? LMAO

      You’ve never picked up a Torah, Bible, or Quran, huh?

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        Technically speaking the wickedness of the cities that were under divine review were because they were narcissistic, enjoyed excess and “prosperous ease” without considering properly the poor and did “abominable acts” before God. Those abominable acts could have been anything. We get the homosexuality related misconception because the test involved hosting two angelic dignitaries disguised as humans whom a mob decended on an demanded they let them “know”…

        Funny trick here. The original Hebrew text used for the angels was anashim and the OG word Lot uses for them when he greets the dignitaries is non-gendered as analogous to “master”. Anashim is a non-gendered term, it encompasses specifically both the terms woman and man and means “of mankind”. However, the English translations of the Bible use male gendered terms like “Lords” “Gentlemen” and “Men” for the angels… Meaning the lust for the angels in the original story was probably not gendered. The angels in the original are not named nor gender coded in any way but there were specifically two of them. We might interpret this to mean there were either angels that appeared to be of both genders or that the genders were deliberately not important because the pluralism means they are never gendered by any other mention in the story. Just as in English when a plural is used it disguises the individual nature of the particular makeup of the group. The crowd calls to know “them”.

        The test was ultimately a litmus test failure of the town to show it lived up to the laws of hospitality and morality but there’s nothing specifically outlining gay sexuallity in the original text of that story moreso than any other sexuallity. The abominations could have been anything and the horny onslaught against the angels was potentially supposed to be coded as lust to defile or possess the divine or even just a lack of consent. The crowd isn’t asking if the angels want to come out and play, they are demanding it.

        In the end it was a bunch of English translators who had very specific cultural ideas about who was worthy of the term “Master” that occluded any potential of the feminine potential reading and were the ones who through the cultural game of telephone made it a story about gay sex. It kind of benefited the Church to make it less a story about hoarding wealth and comfort because a lot of individual Churches were very VERY wealthy.

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    As it never rains in southern california, this guy has never seen a rainbow in his life, pretty sure.