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  • there is no such thing as an “original” Bible text

    I never said there was. And the existence of more than one accepted scripture doesn’t contradict what I said. Each of those scriptures will not adapt to its environment.

    there’d be no way to perfectly preserve their meaning over the many of thousands of years they developed.

    Again, we’re talking about different things. You’re talking about long periods of time where human civilisation develops, where scriptures are translated, reinterpreted, etc. into new scriptures. I’m saying that the King James Bible of the 1950s was the same King James Bible of the 1970s and didn’t adapt in response to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.


  • When it is illegal for same-sex couples to marry that it was one the things they miss out on.

    It seems then that you were comparing married couples with same-sex couples who were not in a legally recognised life partnership, such as a civil partnership in the UK. Which makes no sense. I think it’s safe to assume that the vast majority of people one interacts with on Lemmy will live in a jurisdiction where same-sex life partnerships are legally recognised.

    Vatican City

    is a backward city-state and is no way representative of contemporary Western democracies.