This guy really makes me sad, angry and worried that he's out there speaking on behalf of Christian.
Watch the video (ignore the stupid laughter track) and I'll pop some comments after the clip.
I'm a Christian. I'm a homosexual too. I know some people hate Christians and I know there's another group who hates homosexuals. So I'm double hated or a minority within a minority.
I have some days where I want to recant my faith and chuck it away but I can't.
It's so hard for me to hear Christians mouthing off about gays.
There are so many things that the Warrior says that are wrong.
A bunch of Christian leaders got together over the last 2000 years and voted on which books got in. They use the whole "God told me" defence.
The Levitical stuff he chats about is bogus. Levitical law prohibits all sorts of terrible crimes such as eating shellfish, wearing cloth made from two different fibres and touching your wife when she's in "her monthly flow". For me the whole of Leviticus is a contextual book to understand a community trying to make sure they don't die during their time living in the desert. It's also a bit of a manual for how to have God living at the edge of the camp and not die. The rules are there because God is holy. (Wow, I sound like a fundementalist. Well, she is holy) And the rules just demonstrate that there are thousands of ways to go wrong. We could never justify ourselves. Hence the need for Jim Caviezel to suffer a gory death on our behalf.
(I get a bit icked by the blood sacrifice thing. Can anyone else say "myth of redemptive violence"?)
The bible gets twisted by various groups to suit it's own agenda. It also worries me the amount of time, energy and blog posts that get focussed on sex and sexuality. On another blog I was commenting about the word Queer and how I don't think the gay community is organised enough to get consensus on the issue of what to call itself. Let's get consensus on other issues. Let's gather around adoption rights, marriage rights, abolishing the death penalty in countries that still oppress LGBT/GLBT people.
Lets expose mendacity, hypocrisy and inequality whereever we find it. We might get a better word than queer- lets try for "peacemakers".
Sorry for a heavy post. Just need to respond to what he said because he moderates his comments on the Tube. (Bet mine don't turn up)
