Christianity & Slash
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Some of you might be interested in reading![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
galadhir's essay, "A Christian Perspective on Slash Fiction." Even though certain points of it aren't very accessible to me, as I am not a Christian and don't align my morals to the Bible necessarily, I think she makes some interesting points, particularly some that I never could have made justifying homosexuality since I am not religious and don't understand a lot of details about the Bible. What I found particularly affecting about her point of view is that she used to actually think homosexuality is wrong and was ashamed of reading slash, but her views were gradually changed as she found more and more fiction that contained a beauty and purity she could no longer associate with sin.
"Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 condemns lying with a man as with a woman as 'an abomination'. Abomination is an unfortunate translation for the Hebrew word, which means 'something which is unclean under the Purity Law.' Like eating shellfish, or touching a dead pig, it made a person ritually unclean. Since, under Grace, Christians have been released from the requirements of the Law, this does not apply to us.
Romans 1:19-32 equally refers to homosexuality as 'unclean' *not* as a sin. Paul's gist in this passage is that Gentile Idolatry lead to ritual uncleanness *and* it leads to real sin (such as envy, murder, strife, deceit etc). Paul then goes on to attack the notion that anything is unclean, and to maintain that it is only real sin which matters. In saying this, he actually places homosexuality in the category of 'things which are OK for Christians - like eating non kosher food.'"
To read the entire post, go here.
Some of you might be interested in reading
galadhir's essay, "A Christian Perspective on Slash Fiction." Even though certain points of it aren't very accessible to me, as I am not a Christian and don't align my morals to the Bible necessarily, I think she makes some interesting points, particularly some that I never could have made justifying homosexuality since I am not religious and don't understand a lot of details about the Bible. What I found particularly affecting about her point of view is that she used to actually think homosexuality is wrong and was ashamed of reading slash, but her views were gradually changed as she found more and more fiction that contained a beauty and purity she could no longer associate with sin."Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 condemns lying with a man as with a woman as 'an abomination'. Abomination is an unfortunate translation for the Hebrew word, which means 'something which is unclean under the Purity Law.' Like eating shellfish, or touching a dead pig, it made a person ritually unclean. Since, under Grace, Christians have been released from the requirements of the Law, this does not apply to us.
Romans 1:19-32 equally refers to homosexuality as 'unclean' *not* as a sin. Paul's gist in this passage is that Gentile Idolatry lead to ritual uncleanness *and* it leads to real sin (such as envy, murder, strife, deceit etc). Paul then goes on to attack the notion that anything is unclean, and to maintain that it is only real sin which matters. In saying this, he actually places homosexuality in the category of 'things which are OK for Christians - like eating non kosher food.'"
To read the entire post, go here.
