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Originally Posted by Clearwitch I was just thinking...it could, with good will, be interpreted in the way that you shouldn't have sex with the same gender in the same way as you do with the opposite sex...
I'm not all too familiar with Leviticus...but it sounds roman, and I know the ancient greeks, as well as the more decadent romans, saw homosexual sex as purer, and more accepted, than heterosexual sex. Intercourse with women was considered dirty, and for procreation only...
So I don't know how well an anti-homosexual argument that scripture is... |
Remember that this is the Bible we're talking about, Clear. Many of the early books have Latin names, because the Christian Bible spent quite a bit of time being written in Latin through history.
Leviticus refers to the Levites, the descendents of the tribe of Levi, who were assistants to the priests. They were the keepers of the laws that the Jews followed, the ones that defined them as a people and set them apart from the pagans (not our modern day ones, but the polytheistic peoples of their area). It had nothing to do with Roman culture, since at the time Rome had yet to form into a world power.