Rob Watson is the lead editor for the Dad and Families section on The Good Men Project. He is a gay dad, business man in high tech communications, a community activist and a blogger/writer. He is one of the founders of the evolequals.com blogsite, a regularly featured blogger on Huffington Post as well as a commentary columnist on LGBTQ Nation, Gay Star News, Impact Magazine, The Next Family and others. His stories and commentary have been read, shared and liked by hundreds of thousands of readers a year.
Yep, there’s a lot of that. Also recall how in Numbers 31 Moses goes full Boko Haram on the Midianites – every last man, woman, and male child slaughtered, virgin girls listed alongside livestock in the detailed accounting of war spoils which follows. Sermons about Philistines getting tumors on their dicks after capturing the Ark of the Covenant really didn’t do anything for me. I myself found the New Testament far more palatable, but still believe we should question everything – there is nothing so powerful or dangerous as a belief people don’t allow themselves to question, but we have… Read more »
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Tom Brechlin
8 years ago
They don’t appear to be well versed in their Christian faith. What I find difficult is that unless I missed it, they didn’t mention where the actual passages were pulled from … the Old Testament = TaNaKh. Accordingly the way this was presented, scripture out of context could be looked at as antisemitism
Yep, there’s a lot of that. Also recall how in Numbers 31 Moses goes full Boko Haram on the Midianites – every last man, woman, and male child slaughtered, virgin girls listed alongside livestock in the detailed accounting of war spoils which follows. Sermons about Philistines getting tumors on their dicks after capturing the Ark of the Covenant really didn’t do anything for me. I myself found the New Testament far more palatable, but still believe we should question everything – there is nothing so powerful or dangerous as a belief people don’t allow themselves to question, but we have… Read more »
They don’t appear to be well versed in their Christian faith. What I find difficult is that unless I missed it, they didn’t mention where the actual passages were pulled from … the Old Testament = TaNaKh. Accordingly the way this was presented, scripture out of context could be looked at as antisemitism