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Holy Bible-NRSV

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Stephen Richards said: " This book has a big problem. Being a Christian, I care about the word of God. There's a scripture, however, in this book that makes no sense to me. This book says that "sodomites" are bad, so bad that they won't even go to Heaven. Are they really tha This book has a big problem. Being a Christian, I care about the word of God. There's a scripture, however, in this book that makes no sense to me. This book says that "sodomites" are bad, so bad that they won't even go to Heaven. Are they really that bad? What is a "sodomite," anyway? My dictionary doesn't list "sodomite" at all. It has "sodomy" and "sodomize" in it but no "sodomite" anywhere. If it did, it would be right there with "sodomy" and "sodomize."

My dictionary says that "sodomy" is when people make love to each other, either gay or straight, with their own mouths and/or rears. Is there anything really wrong with it? It does not say anything about that kind of "sexual intercourse" being illegal or immoral. If there is nothing wrong with "sodomy," then, what is wrong with being a "sodomite," meaning, I presume, a person who "sodomizes?" Then again, it does not say that there is anything wrong with stealing, either.

I know that stealing is bad. That's easy to figure out. The police put you in jail for that. They don't, however, do anything to you for making love to someone with your own mouth and/or rear. Why would they, anyway? How would making love, in any way, shape, or form, ever be the same as making hate? Yet, does God, in effect, not really approve of that kind of sex, anyway?

I am still single, but if I were married, I would be married to a man, not a woman. Why, then, am I not really married? So far, God has not approved of an actual marriage for me. Why hasn't He? How does God know what I would do with a man, anyway, if one isn't right here with me in the first place? If God already knows what I would do with a man, then He has already created me to be that way and knows it, too. Yet, if He created me to be gay, does He think that He has made a big mistake, trying to cover it up all the time, making me hide behind a little box typing notes for a little piece of white space on a cold screen? Does He care at all about what I just now wrote? If God ever marries me to a man, then I will know that He was just waiting for the right time for that. If He never does, then I will wonder what might have been wrong with Him my whole life, but only on my final day of life, on my death bed.

It might take ten million dollars to bring my own fiancé from India to America. Why in the world would God care that much about me, anyway, so much so that He would actually give me that much money outright, if he hasn't done that for me already in the first place? Yet, if He cares about me at all, then maybe He just needs me to merely survive in this world, not really thrive, with abundance. Is there really such a thing as gay abundance, anyway? In this book, "abundance" means lots of offspring, I think. Whether or not I ever make love my own gay way might not matter to God, since offspring won't develop from any of that kind of activity, not directly, anyway, but if it actually makes more straight people in the world make more love overall, maybe God does not see that truth well enough to give all of His children the chance to make love. How cruel that is to those of us still alone.

Oh...wait a minute...the webpage, http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/D..., says that "sodomites" are really male prostitutes, or "hustlers," but "hustler" isn't in my dictionary. Can someone please modernize this book and the dictionary, too, to clarify the sinfulness of sodomy as only when it involves prostitution, not when it's in the course of marriage, even between two men?

Yet, does God really know the difference between a married gay man and a sodomite? If he didn't, then how would He be giving us all gay marriages? What, in God's mind, then, determines the difference between a married gay man and a sodomite? Perhaps God cares about whether a gay man is promiscuous or monogamous. If so, why is monogamous sodomy righteous, whereas promiscuous sodomy is sinful?

If God is love, though, then He knows what is best for me. Maybe I'm just a big baby wanting what I'm not allowed to have in the first place, but not necessarily. Maybe I'm just not trying hard enough. Read this again, then. While you're at it, give me ten million dollars, if, that is, you're not afraid of defying the word of God and risking going to hell for marrying me off to, perhaps in God's mind, another "sodomite." Nevertheless, if you're brave enough, you can still donate to my own cause at a nifty little website that lets anyone start a campaign for free. Go to my webpage, gofundme.com/gaymarriages, and click "donate." You'll never know what God believes until you try.

How can God really hate sodomy if business doesn't hate that kind of sex at all? I've seen plenty of pictures on the Internet of underwear made just for sodomy. For instance, some men's bikinis are completely open in the front. You don't even have to pull down the front to stick out your prowess. Other men's bikinis, called straps, open up the backside, completely, not even with just a string running up through the middle, instead, hugging both cheeks on the sides, leaving the middle apart completely alone. Revealing, you don't really have to wear underwear over your own straps, if you're brave enough, that is, in your own jeans, hugging them, too.

I like thongs because they don't slip, but you have to tug the string in the back, to take them off, for anything. They don't really prove anything about sodomy, either. For some reason, thongs, swim, that is, are completely legal apparel all by themselves in public, yet, that little string in the back isn't much of a cover up. I would be too embarrassed to wear a thong in public. If I were thin and tight, then, that would be different, but my belly hangs over the top.

God allows sodomy if you look good. If you're fat, though, you can't even walk around in your own underwear in your own home without hearing people hating you for it, even when you're the only one at home. Fat men might turn off the women, making them breed less. I think that my own fiancé might love me no matter what, fat or not, but, as of yet, that man I love is still in India, and even ten million dollars might not bring him to me. ...more "

Jun 03, 2015 08:38PM · see review

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Listening in: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy

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Jun 02, 2015 11:26PM

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Stephen Richards said: " Last night in my dreams, I heard one of the spies saying that none of the 1963-born people have been allowed to prove to be sane, from no longer being spied on, because, since the Kennedy Administration was involved in spying, then the former Preside ...more "

Jun 02, 2015 11:25PM · see review