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::::: Morality is a much less precise body of knowledge than math.  Even translating texts a few thousand years old is more precise than morality.  Go to the seminary and poll all the priests, ministers and rabbis there and you will likely get almost as many answers as individuals. Claiming that something is evil based on an old story without actually looking at what the words are and accepting the interpretation that most agrees with your view does not mean that everyone reads it the same way.  My reading of the Sodom and Gomorrha story is one of the cities refused to provide hospitality when there were plentiful resources to do so.  If you want to read that as being evil, go ahead.  --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 20:31, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

::::: Morality is a much less precise body of knowledge than math.  Even translating texts a few thousand years old is more precise than morality.  Go to the seminary and poll all the priests, ministers and rabbis there and you will likely get almost as many answers as individuals. Claiming that something is evil based on an old story without actually looking at what the words are and accepting the interpretation that most agrees with your view does not mean that everyone reads it the same way.  My reading of the Sodom and Gomorrha story is one of the cities refused to provide hospitality when there were plentiful resources to do so.  If you want to read that as being evil, go ahead.  --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 20:31, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

::: And before people point me to Jude 1:7, ''Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.'' (KJV), the passage ''giving themselves over to fornication'' is the Greek [http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/words.pl?book=Jud&chapter=1&verse=7&strongs=1608&page= ekporneuo] which is derived from [http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/words.pl?book=Jud&chapter=1&verse=7&strongs=4203&page=1 porneuo] which has an obvious root that we recognize in today's English.  ''Strange flesh'' is [http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/words.pl?book=Jud&chapter=1&verse=7&strongs=2087&page= heteros] [http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/words.pl?book=Jud&chapter=1&verse=7&strongs=4561&page= sarx] which has a wide range of possible meanings - including "eating unclean meat." --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 20:31, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

::: And before people point me to Jude 1:7, ''Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.'' (KJV), the passage ''giving themselves over to fornication'' is the Greek [http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/words.pl?book=Jud&chapter=1&verse=7&strongs=1608&page= ekporneuo] which is derived from [http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/words.pl?book=Jud&chapter=1&verse=7&strongs=4203&page=1 porneuo] which has an obvious root that we recognize in today's English.  ''Strange flesh'' is [http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/words.pl?book=Jud&chapter=1&verse=7&strongs=2087&page= heteros] [http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/words.pl?book=Jud&chapter=1&verse=7&strongs=4561&page= sarx] which has a wide range of possible meanings - including "eating unclean meat." --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 20:31, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

== Need Help with Hateful Articles ==

== Need Help with Hateful Articles ==

I don't have the time to correct these all, but any enterprising editor willing to tackle the prejudiced statements in the current versions of [[homophobia]], [[homosexuality]], and [[reparative therapy]] would have my eternal gratitude.-'''<font color="#007FFF">Ames</font><font color="#FF0000">G</font>'''_{[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:AmesG yo!]} 17:16, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

I don't have the time to correct these all, but any enterprising editor willing to tackle the prejudiced statements in the current versions of [[homophobia]], [[homosexuality]], and [[reparative therapy]] would have my eternal gratitude.-'''<font color="#007FFF">Ames</font><font color="#FF0000">G</font>'''_{[http://www.conservapedia.com/User_talk:AmesG yo!]} 17:16, 30 April 2007 (EDT)