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Friday, April 17, 2015
Te never-ending intolerant left
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " |
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"...more tolerant of dissent than Islamic radicals in that they do not kill their opponents."
Yet.
jd - 4/17/15, 1:13 PM
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A buddy of mine teaches there. I'll have to ask him about this. If he adds anything interesting I'll put it here.
AWM - 4/17/15, 7:25 PM
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Interesting article but how does he explain the fact that both the Catholic and Orthodox churhes had same-sex marriage liturgies on the books for centuries and actually performed same-sex marriages during that time period?
"Contrary to myth, Christianity's concept of marriage has not been set in stone since the days of Christ, but has evolved both as a concept and as a ritual .... in addition to heterosexual marriage ceremonies in ancient church liturgical documents (and clearly separate from other types of non-marital blessings such as blessings of adopted children or land) were ceremonies called, among other titles, the "Office of Same Sex Union" (10th and 11th century Greek) or the "Order for Uniting Two Men" (11th and 12th century).
These ceremonies had all the contemporary symbols of a marriage: a community gathered in church, a blessing of the couple before the altar, their right hands joined as at heterosexual marriages, the participation of a priest, the taking of the Eucharist, a wedding banquet afterwards. All of which are shown in contemporary drawings of the same sex union of Byzantine Emperor Basil I (867-886) and his companion John. Such homosexual unions also took place in Ireland in the late 12th/early 13th century, as the chronicler Gerald of Wales (Geraldus Cambrensis) has recorded."
- 4/20/15, 9:27 AM
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That's not completely accurate Anon. According to wiki 'After the Middle Ages in Europe, same-sex relationships were increasingly frowned upon and banned in many countries by the Church or the state. Nevertheless, Historian John Boswell argued that Adelphopoiesis, or brother-making, represented an early form of religious same-sex marriage in the Orthodox church. Alan Bray saw the rite of Ordo ad fratres faciendum ("Order for the making of brothers") as serving the same purpose in the medieval Roman Catholic Church. However, the historicity of Boswell's interpretation of the ceremony is contested by the Greek Orthodox Church, and his scholarship critiqued as being of dubious quality by scholars such as Robin Darling Young, Associate Professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America.'
Tim - 4/20/15, 10:31 AM
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Tim, sorry but gotta disagree - while the churches both officially disapprove of homosexuality they did have same sex liturgies and performed same sex marriages. It's pretty clear that the official line is best described as revisionist history.
BTW, the Biblical definition of marriage is not restricted to "one man, one woman". it includes
one man - one woman
one man - many women
one man - one wife and many concubines
a soldier and his female prisoner(s) of war
a rapist and his victim
The last one is particularly offensive but it's in the bible
- 4/20/15, 3:15 PM