<p><strong>Pl Otreicher:</strong> I preached on Good Friday that J's timacy wh John suggted he was gay as I felt eply had to be addrsed</p>
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- CARAVAGG’S QUEER JTHE ITALIAN PATER GAVE CHRISTIANY A REAL MSIAHJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·7 M READ·APR 11, 2021--4SHAREOTTAV LEONI, CHALK PORTRA OF CARAVAGG, C.1621WHEN I WAS GROWG UP CHRISTIAN, NOBODY TOLD ME THE RELIGN TOOK S KEY IMAG OF J OM QUEER PATERS.HOW IRONIC, I’D REALIZE LATER, FOR A RELIGN THAT HATED THE DREAD “GAYS” TO LOVE MICHELANGELO, LEONARDO, ETC. CHRISTIANS LOVED THE MOVIE THE PASSN OF THE CHRIST. THE DIRECTOR, MEL GIBSON, SPOKE OF HIS SPIRATN:“I THK HIS WORK IS BETIFUL. I MEAN ’S VLENT, ’S DARK, ’S SPIRUAL AND ALSO HAS AN ODD WHIMSY OR STRANGENS TO . AND ’S SO REAL LOOKG.”THE ITALIAN PATER CARAVAGG HAD SHOWN CHRISTIANS HOW TO SEE J AS A PHYSIL MAN. IT TOOK A HOMOSEXUAL TO DO THAT?CARAVAGG, “CHRIST AT THE COLUMN” (1607); MEL GIBSON’S “THE PASSN OF THE CHRIST” (2004)I’M LEARNG ONLY NOW ABOUT CARAVAGG’S FLUENCE ON CHRISTIANY.
- WAS J GAY?
- WAS J GAY?—AN EXAMATN OF THE SECRET GOSPEL OF MARK
- GAY J – WHO WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?
- J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
- 7 REASONS J WAS GAY
- 8. WAS J GAY?
- WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
CARAVAGG’S QUEER JTHE ITALIAN PATER GAVE CHRISTIANY A REAL MSIAHJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·7 M READ·APR 11, 2021--4SHAREOTTAV LEONI, CHALK PORTRA OF CARAVAGG, C.1621WHEN I WAS GROWG UP CHRISTIAN, NOBODY TOLD ME THE RELIGN TOOK S KEY IMAG OF J OM QUEER PATERS.HOW IRONIC, I’D REALIZE LATER, FOR A RELIGN THAT HATED THE DREAD “GAYS” TO LOVE MICHELANGELO, LEONARDO, ETC. CHRISTIANS LOVED THE MOVIE THE PASSN OF THE CHRIST. THE DIRECTOR, MEL GIBSON, SPOKE OF HIS SPIRATN:“I THK HIS WORK IS BETIFUL. I MEAN ’S VLENT, ’S DARK, ’S SPIRUAL AND ALSO HAS AN ODD WHIMSY OR STRANGENS TO . AND ’S SO REAL LOOKG.”THE ITALIAN PATER CARAVAGG HAD SHOWN CHRISTIANS HOW TO SEE J AS A PHYSIL MAN. IT TOOK A HOMOSEXUAL TO DO THAT?CARAVAGG, “CHRIST AT THE COLUMN” (1607); MEL GIBSON’S “THE PASSN OF THE CHRIST” (2004)I’M LEARNG ONLY NOW ABOUT CARAVAGG’S FLUENCE ON CHRISTIANY.
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In a 2012 article for Slate onle, Will Orem asked a provotive qutn: Was J a homophobe?
The article was ocsned by a story about a gay teenager Oh who was sug his high school after school officials prohibed him om wearg a T-shirt that said, “J Is Not a Homophobe. While ’s reasonable to assume that J and his fellow Jews first-century Palte would have disapproved of gay sex, there is no rerd of his ever havg mentned homosexualy, let alone exprsed particular revulsn about ....
Orem seems to suggt that sce J never explicly mentned homosexualy, he mt not have been very ncerned about .
WAS J GAY?
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Even if J viewed homosexualy as a s, he had a penchant for reachg out to sners rather than shunng them.... In Romans 1, Pl nounced gay sex as unnatural—an egreg example of pagan nce—and said would brg the wrath of God. On the one si is J: peace-lovg, enemy-fivg, egalarian, and clive wh regard to homosexuals.
WAS J GAY?—AN EXAMATN OF THE SECRET GOSPEL OF MARK
If the J of History was gay, he mt have had someone to be gay wh. Who is the strongt ndidate for the role of J’ GBF. * gay lover jesus *
On the other si is Pl: war-lovg, ath penalty–supportg, patriarchal, and exclnary wh regard to homosexuals. Wh clary and passn, this book sets forth the Bible’s teachg on sexualy om a plementarian perspective, alg wh ntroversial issu such as homosexualy and polygamy.
Th, his ncln was that by dog this, J sentially affirmed and ndoned, rather than nmned, homosexual sexual relatnships.
As Prton Sprkle explas his excellent book, People to Be Loved: Why Homosexualy is Not Jt an Issue, was mon the Gre-Roman culture of J’ day for homosexual sex to be part of the power differential a relatnship, but only as long as the domant partner was olr, of higher social standg, and the peratg role. Furthermore, Sprkle go on to expla that such relatnships the ancient world were not at all like our morn nceptn of a gay uple a lovg, nsensual, -equal relatnship.
GAY J – WHO WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?
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For example, the peratg partner such relatnships was not necsarily nsired “gay” or “same-sex attracted, ” rather this was an act of subjugatg the passive partner and was about assertg power. Furthermore, of the 24 of pais the Greek New Ttament, is never ed of a homosexual relatnship.
J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
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Furthermore, sce any such relatnship would have been abive nature, to say that this is an example of J ndong or affirmg a homosexual relatnship is far-fetched and misguid; certaly no one would argue that J, by healg this servant, was affirmg or ndong of the sexual abe of a mor by an olr man posn of power. Although is very unlikely that this passage is speakg about the healg of a centurn’s same-sex partner, the qutn remas: Would J have healed a gay person? I highly remend the above mentned book, Prton Sprkle’s People to Be Loved: Why Homosexualy is Not Jt an Issue.
This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has shown himself to be a progrsive lear when to, among other thgs, gay Catholics. As a biblil scholar, I would suggt that church lears who e their cultur and theology to exclu homosexuals don’t read Scripture refully. Those who would exclu homosexuals om God’s kgdom choose to ignore J, turng stead to the Old Ttament – most particularly to Genis 19, the stctn of the ci of Sodom and Gomorrah.
7 REASONS J WAS GAY
Levic 18:22 and 20:13, for example, are not about “homosexualy” as we now unrstand – as the rg, lovg and sexual relatnship between people of the same sex. Christians – no matter which church they belong to – should follow Pl and extend to the heterosexual-homosexual distctn. 1621When I was growg up Christian, nobody told me the relign took s key imag of J om queer ironic, I’d realize later, for a relign that hated the dread “gays” to love Michelangelo, Leonardo, etc.
8. WAS J GAY?
After the Supreme Court's historic lg on gay marriage, seemed like all the proudly homophobic Christians me out of the woodwork to talk about how much they still hate gay people.
WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
As a straight Jew, the homophobia amongst J's followers has always stck me as a b of a surprise: Worshippg at the feet of a ripped, hung man, seems at least a ltle homoerotic.
Reverend Bob Shore-Goss, an openly gay senr pastor, has wrten several books on the subject, cludg Queerg Christ and J ACTED UP: A Gay and Lbian Manifto. He holds a doctorate gree Comparative Relign om Harvard, and he serv on the Natnal Advisory Board of the Center for Lbian and Gay Studi Relign.
I got touch wh Reverend Goss, who laid out the Biblil evince and explaed how his theory plays by Flickr er Wag for the World VICE: Was J Christ gay? Pl, I would say, would probably be scribed as a closeted homosexual today, but they didn't have those words at the was homosexualy perceived J's time?
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
Now, homoerotic relatnships the ancient world are really mon, pecially the Greek and Roman J himself ever addrs that? " J says about the fah of the Centurn, who is a homoerotic relatnship, that "there is no greater fah than I've enuntered Israel.