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.
Jesus saves... at the credit union.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2025
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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.
Modern Christians haven't really changed much.
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and of course the original quotes are not related to homosexuality at all: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenChristian/s/79askQI5Xn
basically it condemns rape. but mainstream conservative "christians" in power could not let such translations to spread
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!
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
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.
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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—
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I haven't realized I am black until this post. Thanks religion, I'm now black because I'm a white bisexual guy.
It's always fun when religious people claim to know what is or is not gods intent or doing, when they so often claim "his ways are unfathomable for us mere humans" whenever it suits them.
Or they use the Bible as source, a book written by humans who they never knew and cannot verify if they were terrible people. (based on the content of the bible they most likely were assholes based on modern values)
Why are you reposting ragebait shite
It's obviously satire with "black"
The difference between satire and reality is slimmer than most care to admit. Poe's Law most of all makes it near impossible to pull off "perfect" satire that's obviously satire to everyone.
The only thing making this post satire compared to what many conservatives unironically believe (yes, even about black people) is it was posted to 196
In 1836 Elijah Abel was similarly promised he would "be made ... white in eternity"
Of course all old testament. They so conveniently forget that their hippy savior changed the rules, because of course they don't actually like his message; does not justify their desire to have power over others.
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Jesus is hrt?
who wrote this shite?
You're certainly not born a christo-fascist arsehole. That's something you have to learn, and you probably have to unlearn a lot of basic human instincts as well..
I do think it is most likely true that one's gender and sexuality is not set at birth but instead emerges later for most people. I mean twin studies for one thing. Doesn't mean it's a choice though.
Considering gender is a social construct it can't exist till a person has assimilated the information needed to create the construction.
Them figuring out where they sit inside of that construction is the tricky part.
Sexuality is hard to say, but considering observation in preferences among other species it's likely to not manifest fully till an organism goes though their equivalent of puberty.
So in either case there's basically no real argument that either is from birth. But also there's even less of an argument that it's a conscious choice. It's a manifestation of the chemicals and/or the perception of the person. Depending on which of the two your talking about.
Now if we talking about biological sex. Then yeah your born with the bits you have. Don't mean you can't have them changed. Or disagree with the social expectations of gender commonly associated with those bits. Thank you modern medicine and fuck expectations!
For gender dysphoria there have been studies suggesting that prenatal hormone exposure plays a role. Many also experience dysphoria specifically about their genitals, so it's likely about more than just social gender constructs (probably also depends on the individual though), with at least some contributing factors already decided at birth.
But yea, both gender and sexuality are very complex and there are bound to be environmental factors for both.
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This is the angle we gotta play with bigotry.
Just constantly pointing out that you are born those things, and you don't harrass people because of how they were born.
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Lawdy Jeebus, homeschooling strikes again!
Oooh, number 3 is gonna be a tough one, even for Jebus.