pluto@quentincrisp.com wrote:
Pastor Dave and I are having a discussion that started when another
alleged man of the cloth insinuated that all gays are child molesters.
I didn't want to lose the thread so I'll break it out here.

I've always wondered why so many "Christians" can ignore half of
Leviticus while virulently attacking gay people with the other.
Here's the gist of that argument:

I've got no respect whatsoever for "religious" people who
selectively

go after gays. (You know, like picking that little quote out of
Leviticus while ignoring the one about shellfish, or women going
into 5-day seclusion when they menstruate.)

Here's Pastor Dave's response:

Your ignorance is obvious. You are equating ritual
laws with moral laws.

This confuses me. Leviticus isn't divided into a Ritual section and a
Moral section: it is, essentially, a long list of forbidden tasks,
with no differentiation between them. So I posted this:

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In [one Biblical quote], the LORD tells Moses, in no uncertain terms,
that it's a sin to eat pork, or in fact TOUCH LEATHER.

In the second [Biblical quote], the Lord tells Moses that
homosexuality is an abomination.

Now, clear this up for me. The first can be ignored -- though it's
the word of GOD -- because you've deigned it a "ritual law"? But the
second is a "moral law," so gays have to be attacked at every
opportunity?

This seems pretty far-fetched to me, considering the two proclamations
are made in the SAME CONVERSATION, in the SAME MANNER, just PAGES
APART.

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Dave's response was something of a repetition:

You seem to be missing the point, which was made.
You ignorantly equates ritual law with moral law. Of
course you ignored that. That is who you are.

Now, is this a real point, or just BS? As I say, there's absolutely
no difference in the wording of these declarations, and no reference
to "ritual" whatsoever. How can one be deemed "ritual law" and
written off?

To me it just sounds like rather than logic, somebody started at the
end -- that everything in the Bible must be true, since it's the word
of God -- and invented a simplistic, illogical explanation to ignore
the half that's preposterous.