If you read my previous blog, “The Nearly Impossible Dream”, you had to come away with the sense of anger I have toward the Catholic Church and religion in general.  I am an outsider, one of the abominations described with so much vile in Leviticus and other books from the old testament and then by Paul, Agustin, Constantine and other early leaders in the church that were “sinners” in their youths but defenders of the Church in their later years (when they could no longer get a hard-on) who were renown for their hard line teachings that were the typical right wing philosophy of their day as well as today; judgmental of others, never of themselves or those just like them, and filled with condemnations of all things that were considered sinful in and of themselves, no proof needed (e.g. abortion, homosexuality, and later, inter-racial marriage). The condemnations came from men who were members of the religious right who obviously felt that Jesus didn’t do a good enough job when he was here on earth because these were major sins that were not given the coverage they were due. 

It’s not like Jesus didn’t get angry and condemn men for things that upset Him and His Father as when He attacked the money changers in the Temple.  That truly upset Him and He felt was an affront to His Father as well.  Why then did he not get angry and make strong statements against abortion and homosexuality if, as the religious right would have us believe, they were so offensive to God, His Father?  I think it is obvious that these are not sins at all and most assuredly, are not major offenses to God.  Being a Rabbi, Jesus would have held the belief that a child receives his/her soul when it draws its first breath.  Before that time, it was not human and could be terminated in the womb.  Being God as well as a Rabbi, He would have known that to be the case otherwise He would have corrected that belief and stated that abortion is indeed a serious sin.

As far as homosexuality is concerned, it is not an abomination to God because Jesus would have said such in very powerful terms as He did with the money changers.  An evangelical minister who I was conversing with about homosexuality attempted to answer my question “if homosexuality was such an abomination to God, why didn’t Jesus make a point to rigorously condemn it?” by stating that it was not an issue while Jesus was here on earth.  Jesus was more concerned with the sins that were prevalent in His time.”   I have a problem with that answer.  First, the Old Testament Books such as Leviticus, Genesis, Daniel and Sodom and Gomorrah, were very vocal on condemning homosexuality, so it was a big deal.  Second, even if it weren’t the hot topic of the day, Jesus is God, He has a personal relationship with His Father and, had homosexuality been an abomination as the teachings of the times professed, He would have made numerous strong statements that it was as was taught in the Old Testament.

If you believe, as all Christians do, that Jesus is God and that He was sent down to earth to tell us, first hand, what He expected of us, then, to me, the only conclusion is that abortion and homosexuality are not sins and that homosexuality is not an abomination to God His Father, Himself.  I mean, He didn’t just forget to mention them!

I am very interested in hearing your thoughts on the subject.  If you would answer my questions “if homosexuality was such an abomination to God, why didn’t Jesus make a point to rigorously condemn it?” I would appreciate it.  If you want to leave a comment that you agree or disagree and leave it at that that would be good, too.  Thank you.