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Humble_Novice
11/08/22 1:51:40 AM
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If one mistranslation brought such a negative impact to the world, imagine how many more have yet to be discovered. Can we truly rely on a holy book that is rife with human mistakes and errors?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/documentary-1946-says-homosexual-is-in-the-bible-by-mistake-and-is-being-attacked-by-christians
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wackyteen
11/08/22 1:53:29 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/0/3/AAPw6aAADNeD.jpg

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MICHALECOLE
11/08/22 1:54:20 AM
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People still being religious with everything we know is so silly
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Zikten
11/08/22 1:54:33 AM
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Most Christians are going to not believe this is real
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TendoDRM
11/08/22 1:55:01 AM
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Number of religious people whose views this will change: 0

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MICHALECOLE
11/08/22 1:55:48 AM
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TendoDRM posted...
Number of religious people whose views this will change: 0
There might be one super religious homophobic dude thats like holy shit
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Flockaveli
11/08/22 1:56:05 AM
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Religion is the opiate of the masses.
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wackyteen
11/08/22 1:56:19 AM
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Also, an intentional mistranslation is hardly anything new.

Iirc, when the KJV was being made, they intentionally left out whole books of the Bible.

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Humble_Novice
11/08/22 1:58:34 AM
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Zikten posted...
Most Christians are going to not believe this is real
Most current Christians, perhaps. But future people are going to look at this and come to the conclusion that the Bible simply cannot be relied upon.
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Proto_Spark
11/08/22 1:58:35 AM
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Zikten posted...
Most Christians are going to not believe this is real

It won't even go that far. They just won't care.
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ZangsBeard
11/08/22 1:59:39 AM
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Revealed?

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KeeperOfShadows
11/08/22 2:02:54 AM
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The Bible's got a lot more problems than mistranslations.

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VampireCoyote
11/08/22 2:03:46 AM
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imagine hating something as wonderful as gay people

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Smashingpmkns
11/08/22 2:03:55 AM
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Humble_Novice posted...
Most current Christians, perhaps. But future people are going to look at this and come to the conclusion that the Bible simply cannot be relied upon.
I admire your optimism but lmao

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MabusIncarnate
11/08/22 2:23:55 AM
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Now watch Christians adamantly defend their right to hate the gay community still and call this fake news. It's that important to them to hate.

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Corbenik
11/08/22 2:25:24 AM
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How can it be a mistranslation if it clearly states sex before marriage is bad

and marriage is only between a man and a woman?

like even stuff like BJs are bad

[quoting The Bible and Catechism of the Catholic Church]

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Foppe
11/08/22 2:38:08 AM
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Christianity around here is about forgiveness and being kind to your next, so why do you guys concentrate on hate so much?

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itachi15243
11/08/22 2:42:33 AM
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Yeah there are a lot of mistranslations in the Bible. No way anything goes 2000 years of reprinting and translation without things being all sorts of out of place.

As a Christian I'd rather just herlar the truth for myself.

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DeadBankerDream
11/08/22 2:43:16 AM
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I don't think this is the bombshell it's made out to be.

The rest of the Christian world has done fine oppressing homosexuals without this oen particular translation.

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wackyteen
11/08/22 2:47:03 AM
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Foppe posted...
Christianity around here is about forgiveness and being kind to your next, so why do you guys concentrate on hate so much?
Because they've been radicalized to believe that anyone not a Christian, or even the same flavor of Christian as them, is a direct threat to them and America.

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Foppe
11/08/22 2:48:00 AM
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The height of Goliath is a known mistranslation.
And then we got changes made on purpose.
Like... Isaiah 7:14 the virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.
The 2011 American retranslation changed "the virgin" to the young woman.

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Kim_Seong-a
11/08/22 3:02:00 AM
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As much as I would love for all the homophohia in the bible to be fake, does this particular realization actually change anything?

Even if the word "homosexual" is a mistranslation, I think the bible has enough bad things to say about gay (male) sex that I doubt a few instances of a single mistranslated term is going to radically affect much.

Still, hopefully this does lead fewer young Christians down a hateful path. The old people whove had the original messages drilled into their head likely wont budge on this, but the kids might start to question things at least

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MirageOfRuins
11/08/22 3:20:13 AM
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Leviticus etc etc
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008Zulu
11/08/22 3:56:55 AM
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Wasn't it originally about not having sex with children? No surprise the churches wanted to change that.

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Naysaspace
11/08/22 4:02:30 AM
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The bible is like an amalgamation of 1000 years of mistranslations

Turns out, adam and eve didnt even eat the apple. They used it as a weird sex toy, and thats what angered god.
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ffmasterjose
11/08/22 4:18:58 AM
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I can already see the bible-clutchers hitting this with #NotMyTranslation and continue to be raging homophobes
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toadfan64
11/08/22 4:21:06 AM
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Most Christians I know have no problems with gays anyways these days.

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Sufferedphoneix
11/08/22 9:04:03 AM
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I have a joke I like to use pointing out how even one can just misinterpret something which is helped by mistranslations. Like idk what the wording was originally but take the line "man shay not lie with a man as he would a woman" most people interpret this as men shouldn't sleep with men. I say what if it means it's ok to lie to women but not to men? I don't actually think that just saying if one wanted to interpret it that way you could.

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masterpug53
11/08/22 9:09:45 AM
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MabusIncarnate posted...
Now watch Christians adamantly defend their right to hate the gay community still and call this fake news. It's that important to them to hate.

Most Christians I know believe that the Bible - whichever version they're reading - is the immutable word of God; they will simply not entertain the possibility that the monks who translated it made mistakes or editorialized it.

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Ricemills
11/08/22 9:12:49 AM
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Humble_Novice posted...
But future people are going to look at this and come to the conclusion that the Bible simply cannot be relied upon.

is this basically Islamic point of view of The Bible?

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DoesntMatter
11/08/22 9:23:02 AM
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i don't think this makes as much of a difference as they think it does. it doesn't strike me as notable that the word "homosexual" didn't appear in the bible until 1946, because homosexual is a relatively modern medical term, and the ancient Greeks (and i presume other contemporary cultures) had radically different views about sexuality than we have today. it was very common, for instance, for grown men to have sex with boys younger than them for pleasure, and only sleep with their wives for mating purposes, yet this was never labeled as "homosexual" in their time.

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Phantom36
11/08/22 9:35:17 AM
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*yawn* religious scholars knew this for about a century

The words homosexual or homosexuality never even appeared in any translation of the bible until about WW2 era

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Shadowplay
11/08/22 9:38:52 AM
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wackyteen posted...
Also, an intentional mistranslation is hardly anything new.

Iirc, when the KJV was being made, they intentionally left out whole books of the Bible.
They did not. If you are referring to the Apocrypha, those were translated as well and were part of the KJV for most of its existence. They even translated books that are in the Appendix to the Latin Vulgate that are not even in the Catholic canon.

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Solar_Crimson
11/08/22 9:39:51 AM
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Zikten posted...
Most Christians are going to not believe this is real

TendoDRM posted...
Number of religious people whose views this will change: 0


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Master_Bass
11/08/22 9:42:01 AM
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Yes, this has been known for years if you actually dig into the wording of that verse. Of course most Christians don't care.

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Corbenik
11/08/22 9:57:44 AM
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One word doesn't change the rest of the book and the other things that were said.

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FortuneCookie
11/08/22 10:00:25 AM
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As a Christian, I imagine a good portion of the Bible is intentionally mistranslated. Even before this revision, the Bible spent centuries in dubious hands.
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FortuneCookie
11/08/22 10:07:44 AM
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Zikten posted...
Most Christians are going to not believe this is real

There's one way to prove it. Let's break open one of those Confederate monuments to retrieve the Bible inside.

TendoDRM posted...
Number of religious people whose views this will change: 0

You're too cynical. There are people who act from malice and people who act from ignorance. It might not be the Wham! Bang! Homophobia is Destroyed! victory we all would like for it to be. But broadcasting this knowledge loud enough and long enough will chip away at bigotry and ignorance.

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Nemu
11/08/22 10:10:13 AM
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Hasn't this been debated since forever? When you have however many different versions of the same book in existence, I don't think anyone cares about the accuracy of the original.
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Fimbulvetr
11/08/22 10:10:36 AM
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RchHomieQuanChi
11/08/22 10:12:41 AM
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I've known this for years. There's also a lot of things that the Bible says are "sins" but Christians do it anyway.

At the end of the day, bigots will always just cherry-pick and misconstrue the parts of the Bible that seem to justify their shitty views.

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Foppe
11/08/22 10:17:19 AM
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https://youtu.be/5mLOUWl-L-s

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AloneIBreak
11/08/22 10:26:50 AM
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tl;dr but nobody in 2022 should care too much what the Bible says on the subject of ethics anyway.

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HylianFox
11/08/22 11:01:29 AM
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Without even clicking the link I know this is about "arsenokoites", a term which most scholars believe is something that Paul pulled out of his ass since it appears in no other context prior to his letters.

It's a Greek word mashup that literally means "man-bedders", and is often translated as either 'homosexuals' or 'pedophiles' (typically the former)

Paul isn't very fond of effeminates either, he likes his guys manly.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Arsenokoites

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mybbqrules
11/08/22 11:32:09 AM
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MabusIncarnate posted...
Now watch Christians adamantly defend their right to hate the gay community still and call this fake news. It's that important to them to hate.
All this right here.

It's not like they follow the Bible anyway. They just cherrypick things that can be twisted to align with their shit worldview.

Or they just literally make shit up. (Hey, just like the bible!)

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