Because if you executed the homos like God recommends
So there’s this preacher in Tempe, Arizona…which can just mean he’s some guy who got a few people to listen to him say things somewhere. He could be some guy who invented his own church and got a few neighbors to sit in front of him while he delivers “sermons.” Or he could be a Baptist in good standing; who knows. The point is that “preacher” doesn’t tell you much of anything. We know a few people listened to him because we can hear a few people laughing slightly on the video.
So there he is, in Tempe, and he says all the “homos” should be killed because Leviticus, and that would cure AIDS.
Conservative “Christian” Pastor Steven Anderson openly called for executing every gay person in America during a Sunday sermon at his church in Tempe, Arizona. He claimed from the pulpit that gays need to be put to death in the name of God by Christams Day in an effort to wipe out AIDS, even though AIDS is not a virus exclusive to the LGBT community. Anderson opined:
Turn to Leviticus 20:13, because I actually discovered the cure for AIDS. If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. And that, my friend, is the cure for AIDS. It was right there in the Bible all along — and they’re out spending billions of dollars in research and testing. It’s curable — right there. Because if you executed the homos like God recommends, you wouldn’t have all this AIDS running rampant.
I recommend watching the video though, to get the full flavor – the way he keeps saying “homos” is quite striking.
https://youtu.be/-7Sixv7uQOM
IIRC, there is also something (in Leviticus? not sure) about handling false prophets in much the same way. Chew on that pill, “Pastor” Anderson!
But…but…but Rrr – false prophets means everyone else, not me! I’m the only real prophet, kill the rest and listen only to me! – the belief and practice of many people who preach the words of the people who wrote the bible.
Nazism resurrected in so many forms — including this one — day in, day out. Is there even the remotest realistic basis for hope that this will ever end?
But, iknklast, it always comes down to the interpretative privilege. It’s my book and it says what I tell it to! So there.
Other than that, of course we agree. ;)
Article in todays paper about Daesh executing alleged gay men by throwing them off buildings, then stoning the bodies. Nice juxtaposition I thought. Who says there are no Christian terrorists?
Our own domestic fruit.