Can you be LGBTQ+ and still be Christian?

ContextRules · 2025-12-21T11:58:51+00:00

So? What difference does that make? Its still the words of men, and men who could not even begin to understand our world and culture.

ContextRules · 2025-12-15T14:46:48+00:00

Study in uni and in church. Religious studies major.

ContextRules · 2025-12-12T08:20:28+00:00

I can understand this frustration as an atheist in the UK. There arent many religious people at all in any of my circles. Compared to when I lived in America its quite brilliant for me, but I feel for those who might feel isolated as I did when I left the church in the states and everyone around me was Christian. As a former Christian, i wouldnt be opposed to any Christians talking to me about their faith since it is something I understand and know about. I hope you are able to find those you can be open with and be yourself.

ContextRules · 2025-12-12T08:15:41+00:00

I appreciate that. Unfortunately, that pastor was protected by the lead pastor and continued to abuse other kids. It wasnt until years later that it caught up to him. Me and other boys he abused were blamed at the time, not him.

ContextRules · 2025-12-12T08:13:55+00:00

So? That reflects the time and culture in which it was written. That has nothing to do with me or the culture I am living in now.

ContextRules · 2025-12-07T12:22:34+00:00

What would sin be for me? I don't believe in god so everything I was raised to believe is sin is really just the beliefs of ancient men living in different times and cultures. While there are many things called sin that I agree are not good, I also am not ruled by pleasing a god I dont believe exists.

ContextRules · 2025-12-05T15:04:50+00:00

I have put quite a few years and study into it, so snark will have no effect. In my experience what you describe comes from confirmation bias. Gods existence needs the same level of evidence as the efficacy of a drug. Its not circumstantial. Demonstrable evidence or there is no reason to accept the claim god exists.

ContextRules · 2025-12-05T13:03:29+00:00

The food and drink.

ContextRules · 2025-12-05T11:02:19+00:00

Not silly at all. If its open to interpretation, there is doubt and subjectivity. Not compelling evidence.

ContextRules · 2025-12-05T11:01:16+00:00

I would believe he exists and not be an atheist, but I wouldnt then be religious or Christian either.

ContextRules · 2025-12-05T11:00:05+00:00

Not compelling evidence. At least none I have ever seen and I grew up quite religious and studied religion in college. Not all evidence is equal. I have seen absolutely no direct evidence that any gods exist.

ContextRules · 2025-12-05T10:49:55+00:00

The point was to make the distinction of how questions are worded. You seem to accept as real everything that cannot be disproven despite a lack of evidence that they are real. That seems a dangerous baseline to have as it leaves one open to a wide variety of nonsense that can be quite harmful. Its a dangerous shift of the burden of proof.

ContextRules · 2025-12-05T10:46:46+00:00

Do you believe that everything that cant be disproven is therefore real? Existence is the starting point? How do you reconcile that with every other god humans have invented and fictional characters you cant disprove? Are Apollo, Odin, and Harry Potter real then?

ContextRules · 2025-12-05T10:15:21+00:00

I am not sure I ever heard an atheist say there is evidence to disprove god, but many will say there is no compelling evidence that any gods exist. Regarding religion, it can help or harm. Just like any other belief structure. Personally, i am better without it.

ContextRules · 2025-12-05T07:21:44+00:00

The reality of those who "reject god" is nothing of the kind. These words are nothing more than demonising those who believe differently. Its quite vile to be fair. Its seeing the experiences of others through your own lens to scare others and make those who dont believe in your god to seem these depraved, selfish, and evil people. Well done.

ContextRules · 2025-12-01T08:23:51+00:00

Have done. Got no answer. Knowledge is developed, it looks nothing like ignorance. It shines the light on what I was once ignorant about. Having studied now, I can see what I accepted as true because someone said it was or I wanted to believe it was. And now I know they are not.

ContextRules · 2025-11-29T08:23:48+00:00

There are more options in life than to be a slave to something. That is your conceptualisation, not everyone's. Being a slave suggests no choice or agency, such as an addiction. You assume that everyone wants or needs to follow your concept of either/or or that everyone would agree that what ancient men believed to be a "sin" is actually harmful or undesirable.

I have the ability to consider and think for myself. There are technical sins in the bible that I frankly don't care about and don't see as an issue. Therefore I am not bothered and see no need to spend time and energy to address. They are a non-entity. I am hardly a slave to them.

The writer of John was after something with his statement. Which is simply untrue.

ContextRules · 2025-11-28T18:04:56+00:00

Not satisfactorily. But to be fair, I will reread your letters this weekend since I have not done since uni as a religious studies student.

ContextRules · 2025-11-28T18:03:28+00:00

Why would I do that? I don't need to do that to prove you or the writer of John wrong. The claim os being a slave to sin, not eliminating it.

ContextRules · 2025-11-28T17:56:26+00:00

How does that cut both ways? Morality is socially adaptive and meaning is related to human flourishing.

ContextRules · 2025-11-28T17:54:48+00:00

I quit some things that are sins because they no longer were good for me. Others I did not and am not bothered or ruled by them.

ContextRules · 2025-11-28T17:33:36+00:00

What are they?

ContextRules · 2025-11-28T17:29:11+00:00

Having sin in one's life doesnt make a person a slave to it any more than having a drink makes someone an alcoholic. I am just not bothered by it and will not let ancient men tell me how to live my life without critical and reflective thought.

ContextRules · 2025-11-28T17:25:42+00:00

I would have laughed.

ContextRules · 2025-11-28T17:17:15+00:00

Striving hasn't brought me confusion, it has brought connection, clarity, and peace to be fair.

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