Is this why self pleasure is a sin?

In this video Dan hits back on the myth that in the bible / god will any sex outside of marriage is a sin.   He shows how many different sexual acts and groupings were included as Ok for the morality of the time.  I am listening to Separation of church and hate by John Fugelsang.  In the book he explains that the bible is a collection of writings written for the people of that time, the culture of that time, and about the morality accepted at that time.  He shares examples where different authors flat out disagree with each other, but they were separated by ceneriesin time.  Dan mentions something like that here and how each author had their own view of sex and what was moral.  He explains sexual agency and how in the bible for it to be considered sex a penis needed to be involved going into an orifice of some person with lesser status than the man with the active penis.   I like at the end where he talks of the dangers and torments of telling  developing children going through puberty that simply touching themselves is a sin, makes them an abomination to god, and will condemn them to hell.  Hugs

A Right-Wing Legal Group’s Lawsuit Over a High School Wrestling Match Falls Apart on Video

This is another Riley Gaines  person trying to say she lost only because her opponent was trans.  They claim that the wrestler Kallie Keeler was sexually assaulted.  The issue is that all the wrestlers asked and the experts say the moves were standard wrestling moves.   Even the coach says that fingers often end up in places they don’t belong in normal activities in public.  I was not a wrestler, but I know someone who did wrestle in high school.  I had joked with him I couldn’t have done wrestling with all the hands on the crotch of the wrestlers touching each other’s cocks and balls or fingers in the butt.  He told me it was very common and if you watched many boys got up from the floor during or after a match with hard ons or wet spots on their uniforms where their dicks are.   The law suit is an over the top attempt to get wrestler Kallie Keeler a bunch of rewards that she did not earn and to punish all trans athletes.  It also is so she can repeat Riley Gaines track of using her anti-trans hate to be on TV and make a lot of money she wouldn’t make if she was not pushing bigotry and hate.  Plus if the opponent was a cis girl and accidentally did the same thing she wouldn’t have won either.  This is a Christian family who feels entitled to award seh did not earn.  Athe the end of the video he reads responses and comments from anti-trans people who said it was a commonly used move and sexual touching happens.   Hugs

 

The right-wing legal group Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a sweeping federal lawsuit on behalf of Washington high school wrestler Kallie Keeler, claiming she was sexually assaulted during a match against a transgender opponent.

The problem? There’s video of the match, and according to multiple wrestlers, coaches, and wrestling experts I spoke with, it shows nothing controversial. Just legal, routine wrestling techniques.

The lawsuit goes far beyond the match itself, targeting the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA), school officials, coaches, and state authorities while demanding that Keeler’s losses to transgender athletes be erased from the record books and that trans athletes be barred from competing against her in the future.

Despite the dramatic allegations, Pierce County prosecutors declined to pursue criminal charges, and even some conservatives who oppose transgender participation in sports have criticized ADF’s characterization of the match.

Sodom & Gomorrah is not about homosexuality

Dan McCellan again goes to great lengths to explain that the bible doesn’t talk about homosexuality.  He first explains that the frame work of same sex attractions did not exist in the people’s worldview.  The social frame work for sex was not desire but power / authority over others with the penetrative man being the top of the hierarchy with the receiving person the woman was lower in status because she received the man as he penetrated her.   If a man penetrates another man the man doing the penatrator is emasculating and feminizing the man receiving the penetration, lowering that man’s status to the level of a woman.  In the culture of the time of the bible status as a man was paramount so to show dominance over another man they would rape them.  Simple.  He explains why they did not do to Lot’s daughters what they did to the Levite’s concubine.   He goes over the reasons that Genesis 19 is about males using dominance over the other.  He explains it a lot better than I can.  But the main thing to understand is it was not same sex orientation that was the issue it was one man dominating another by penetrating him, which caused a loss of status that was what they were trying to say was a sin.  In other words men don’t ruin the good thing we have going by making some men have a lower status or women will see we are not really so much better than them.  Hugs

 

Her Gotcha Backfired Spectacularly…

Sam and crew go over Graham Platner’s win and his interview with Mika Brzezinski Scarborough on Morning Joe.   Amoung the jokes about her interview they go over his acceptance speech.  I am personally satisfied he has answered all the questions.  I love his line “… if you give me the chance I will be a senator for the people who cannot afford to buy a senator”.  I am a progressive and a believer in DSA policies.  Graham Platner is not the perfect person who is flawless and unlike many his flaws are out in the open, not hidden behind a facade of fake religious politeness.  He is a populist.  I am not looking for religious leaders in our lawmakers, I am not expecting someone who walked blamelessly through life, that they way only one person did and his name was Jesus.  I am looking for someone whose policies help the lower incomes and the public at large, not the privileged few.  I am looking for a congress and White House filled with people who do not think elected office is their golden ticket to personal wealth and authority over others.   Real people screw up and those that ask and work for a second chance should be given a chance to show they deserve it.  In my opinion Platner has and does  shown he deserves his forgiveness.   Plus people look at Graham’s past are not looking at Collin’s past or even Mika who started dating Joe when he was still married.  To me a lot of these people going on about Platner’s past seem to hold him to a different standard than they themselves are held or republican canidates are held.   Hugs.

 

M*A*S*H’s Revolutionary Gay Episode

 

White Lion – When The Children Cry (Official Music Video)

I hate the YouTube algorithm and and myself more for giving into it and saving all the hateful abuse videos I get.  I am crying now trying not to alert Ron who is in the next room with the door between us open.  I had two open windows.  In one I had so many tabs of abuse that the algorithm pushed them to me because I occasionally watch them.  I deleted 8 of them before switching to the other open window.  What does YouTube think I need to see / hear after all that deleting and not watching all those videos?  The two videos below. 

Am I the one to blame but if so what does that say about all the vulnerable children who are led down hate rabbit holes?  At least the harm happening here is to me done myself aidded by the shit pushed into my feeds and I am so stupid that I click on them and leave the tab open while I try to move onto something else.  But eventually I end up coming back to the ones that hurt me so much.  Who is to blame?  As always in my life, as in my childhood … I am, and I have always been according to those that hurt me.   Goodnight.  Scottie.  Hugs

 

How God Made the 10 Commandments

I really enjoy this creator and how he has done this entire series on the Christian god and the inconsistancies of the bible and the figures in it.  In this series the god is a self centered older teenager who only thinks of themselves and their needs/ wants.  The full series starts out with a future highly technological civilization having graduates from school take a psychological test as them an omnipotent being and their assistant is actually their teacher in real life.  But in this case “god” is so narcissistic it causes problems in the simulator they are all connected with.  But the series does show how narcissistic and only thinking of their feelings, wants, and needs this Christian god is.  Sadly the creator has moved on from making the series and the spin-offs from them as his main YouTube product but he still produces these videos which I am grateful for.  But try to remember that God is a student and Jefferies is in reality his teacher still trying to teach him how to be a good person.  Reverse the roles of the characters and you get the joke.  Hugs.  

 

 

John Fugelsang: Reclaiming Jesus’ Teachings

I love this video.  John Fugelsang is a wonderful person to elaborate on the bible and he does so as a follower of Jesus, not Paul or the Old Testament.  His mother was a nun and his father was a monk and the way he describes his father wearing his robes is as the Christian jedi of Flatbush.  He explains how those using the bible to attack or bash others including the LGBTQ+ are not following Jesus that they are following Paul.  He explains clearly how Jesus brought a new covenant for the people doing away with the old one in Leviticus.  He explained how those using the bible to bash others and not feed  & clothe the stranger/ immigrant are totally against what Jesus preached.   He also mentioned how those trying to force the Old Testament of the bible in schools never want the words of Jesus hung in classrooms in public schools, they never want the sermon on the mount posted on the walls.   Those kind of people only want authoritarian laws or do and dont do pushed on kids.   Enjoy the video, I listen to him on The Daily Beans (news with swearing) friday newscast and his Sirius talk show.  Hugs

What do you think of Pope Leo’s comments on gay marriage?

Personal note.  I am doing better.  I am eating two meals a day most days.  Not much for supper but something most nights.  I am still fatigued / tired but I am not spending so many hours in bed.  I am still going to bed early and staying in bed 12 to 14 hours.  I go to in the morning and in the afternoon but that is partly due to the intense pain in my right butt and leg along with my back not just being too tired to stay up.  I will try to get enough caught up enough to do a video.   Ron has caught on and is paying a lot of attention to me.  He is worried.  He is doing everything he can around the house including doing the dishes when I am in bed so I find them done the next morning.  But as I tell him this will take time.  I did not get so ill overnight; I won’t get back to full strength quickly either.  Hugs 

On bad apologetics about homosexuality & the Bible

This is a very well researched and scholarly man.  He knows far more than the dogma of the bible he knows how to read the Hebrew and the nuances of the time. Hugs