However many people still say true christianity is love, passion and tolerance and often evoke massive explanations to hatefull passages, reffering to historical perspectives and errors in the translation and whatnot, thus I present this in response.
An interpreptation of the romans using several versions of the bible, starting with 1:27.
Here the bible speaks clearly about women as if they where mere objects to be used and says that lust is a sin and hints that men engaging in sexual acts with each other is a sin as well, that is a highly bigoted stance.King James Version
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
The newer version is kinder to women and doesn't say they are objects to be used anymore but it still retains the lust is bad and is actually more clear than the KJV bible on that sexual acts between men is wrong and that it entails due penalties, here is the NIV version continued:New International version
In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
So here we see, giving into lust and performing homosexual acts is a perversion and it will make you evil, greedy, depraved, envious, wicked, deceitful, a murderer. Every bad thing there is they say the homosexuals are and that they deserve death. here is the KJV version for contrast:28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
It says pretty much the same thing except that you shall take pleasure in killing homosexuals.28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Now biblical apologists, what labyrinthical logic can be applied to this spew of hatred and bigotry so that it may be turned into the message of love and tolerance that people think the bible contains?
Is it wrong of me to think of true christians are people like Pat Robertson and hate spewing southern preachers as opposed to the moderate masses? Is it wrong to say the bible is an extremely evil book as opposed to just being translated badly or misunderstood. That also raises th question if the bible is so badly translated that it's message is 180 degress from truth, then why bother with it?
I thought Paul was a Greek, and was the one who espoused Gentiles, unlike Peter, who rejected them?