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Most of all, it’s sad that you’re spending all this time trying to undermine the [b]real[/b] hypocrisy of homophobes, which lies in adhering to Leviticus on homosexuality, even as they agree with other Christians that Jesus did away with all the other Levitical rules, including dietary rules (certainly for gentiles like them and even if they accept your tangential argument about Jewish converts)?[/quote]

That’s been my point all along. I don’t believe Jesus eliminated laws against kosher meats when he was arguing with the Pharisees about his disciples eating bread without washing their hands. If that were true, Peter wouldn’t have been shocked at the suggestion that he eat un kosher meat in Acts after Jesus had died. But if Christians want to believe that, fine. For the umpteenth time, what bothers me is Christians (and liberal Jews) cherry picking Leviticus 18:22 and using it to justify hating homosexuals. That doesn’t seem to bother (a small number) of people here.

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It’s clear you don’t read others’ posts, so let’s try again.

Look, you can believe what you want about Jesus and dietary laws, and you can believe what you want about Peter (even though the rest of scholarship thinks otherwise on both issues and your arguments are really thin).

But your thoughts on these issues have zero bearing on whether homophobes are hypocrites.

Here’s the hole in your logic about hypocrisy: arguing that some Jewish converts to Christianity might (or might not) have kept kosher has zero bearing on whether homophobic Billy Bob is a hypocrite for not following the rest of Leviticus. Why? Because Billy Bob is probably of Western European origin and even you agree gentiles don’t need to keep kosher.

So what hypocrisy are you pointing out to Billy Bob? There is no hypocrisy using your logic.

You’ve got it upside down, or backwards.

There’s real hypocrisy when the homophobe rejects all of Leviticus (as almost 2,000 years of Christian theologians have done) except for a few passages prohibiting homosexuality. That’s the hypocrisy. But you can’t see it because you’re so intent on dismissing the aforementioned nearly 2,000 years of Christian theology and tradition. [/quote][/quote]

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