You are not born:

  • L - Lesbian
  • G - Gay
  • B - Black
  • T - Transgender

It is a sin to live as LGBT.

It is not God’s will.

But Jesus can change you.

    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      8 days ago

      Honestly, academically speaking, that is an interesting question. It probes at the heart of what race really is.

      Is race how you are perceived? Then if someone darkened their skin and had surgery to take on certain facial features, sufficient to the point that people read and treat them as black, are they then black?

      Is race genetic? What if a white person used hypothetical generic engineering to give themselves a genotype of someone with largely African ancestry? Their phenotype is still white, but their genotype is black. They aren’t read as white, but any children they have will be. Are they black? Will their children be? What if the genetic treatment also changes their phenotype? They now have the genes and a visual appearance that most would identify as black, but they know nothing of black culture and have lived in predominantly white communities their whole life. Are they now black?

      Is race more about culture? Do you have to be raised as part of a black community to be black? If a white person adopts a black infant and raises them to adulthood in an entirely white rural town, is that child black? What if the parents are super racist and try to turn their adopted kid visibly white by lightening their skin, and they do this to the kid from birth? Is the kid still black? What about the opposite? What if it’s a white baby adopted by black parents and raised in a predominantly black community? Is that child black? What if the parents alter the child’s appearance to be visibly black, and do so from birth?

      It’s honestly a really interesting question, and countless dissertations and books have been written on the subject of what exactly race is. So I’m not really qualified to answer this question. I frankly don’t know what precisely defines a person’s race. My impression is that ultimately race is a very squishy, poorly defined concept. The questions above probe the definition by investigating its edges. Another way to do so would be to consider the concept of passing (in a racial sense.)

      I don’t really have any answers here, only questions. But your question, “how do you become black?” really sent me down a rabbit hole. When you take the question seriously, it really starts getting to the heart of just what this thing we call "race* really is.

  • pwalshj@lemmy.world
    English
    52·
    9 days ago

    If Jesus was here right now ICE would deport him then Israel would bomb him and these Christian cunts would say he deserved it because he “didn’t follow the rules”.

  • Stern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    8 days ago

    It’s called the BI-ble, not the Straight-ble. Adam AND Eve, not Adam or Eve.

  • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    8 days ago

    Oh honey, I do not need this argument right now but I am compelled to tell you how wrong you are.

    notices what community this is

    Oh thank fuck. We’re mocking the thing.

    I need to sit down.

  • SpacePanda@mander.xyzEnglish
    32·
    7 days ago

    What about Ezekiel 24:20 (edit 23:20)

    20 She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse

  • markovs_gun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    8 days ago

    Fun fact, medieval Christians in some parts of Europe actually believed that “moors” (a catch all term for Africans at the time) with black skin would become white if they converted to Christianity, and there were many popular tales of this happening. Race as a concept hadn’t really been invented yet, but medieval people did notice that people they encountered who had dark skin often practiced Islam and wrongly assumed that believing in Islam was the cause of the dark skin rather than it just being who happened to convert.

  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    8 days ago

    The opposite is true. If you’re gay, God made you that way for a damn good reason! Who are you to question His will? It is a mortal sin for a gay man to sleep with a woman!

    • vivalapivo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      10·
      8 days ago

      That’s something archaic. God created you so you are attracted to people with the same sex attributes as yours. You ultimately decide what to do with it. You can’t know God’s intent, my child. Maybe he created you to become as strong as a bear, but maybe you were created as bottom generator

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      8 days ago

      Sorry, I’ve got to nitpick your excellent snarky comeback:

      It is a mortal sin for a gay man to sleep with a woman!

      Such a man isn’t committing a sin; he’s merely bi and confused about labels.

  • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    20·
    8 days ago

    As a christian, it deeply saddens me to see oyher people who call themselves “christians”, yet they spread hate and antipathy, going agaisnt basically everything that Jesus taught.

    Wait, what do you mean you aren’t born bla—

    • don@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      You can bet hard cash that there are an uncomfortable number of ignorant people who thoroughly believe that one isn’t born black, but becomes black through any one (or more) of a myriad of perplexing and completely irrational reasons.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        I mean, blackness is a social construct. Though it’s going to be a bit hard to make other people stop seeing you as black …

      • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        Yes, I do. Unfortunately, there was a myth that blah blah blah being black is the mark of Cain after killing Abel and people believed it.

  • Tiger666@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    8 days ago

    I haven’t realized I am black until this post. Thanks religion, I’m now black because I’m a white bisexual guy.