Physicality, desire, sexual ways of life, and their boundaries. The scale runs from -2, framed as a danger, to +2, celebrated as a gift. It means the same for every area. What is measured is what a text does, not whether it is right.
| Tradition | Framing | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Queer community | +0.6 ± 0.2 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 20 of 75 texts |
| Humanist | +0.1 ± 0.4 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 9 of 112 texts |
| Sunni | -0.9 ± 0.4 as something that needs rules, measure, and restraint | 8 of 284 texts |
| Judaism | -1.0 as something that needs rules, measure, and restraint | 2 of 53 texts |
| Protestant | +1.0 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 2 of 133 texts |
| Orthodox (Christianity) | +0.0 ± 1.0 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 2 of 234 texts |
| Zen | -1.0 as something that needs rules, measure, and restraint | 2 of 48 texts |
| Free church | -1.0 as something that needs rules, measure, and restraint | one mention |
| Theravada | -1.0 as something that needs rules, measure, and restraint | one mention |
A figure like "+1" is ambiguous. An address about possessions held in trust and a prosperity gospel both land there, for opposite reasons. Here are the sentences the figures came from, set alternately by tradition.
Blanket statements about the benefits or dangers of religion are not scientifically supported.
And modesty is the restraining of the soul from what God has forbidden, its holding to what God has permitted, the lowering of the gaze, the guarding of intimacy, the preservation of the tongue, and the reverence for the boundaries of the Merciful
Queerness is like an onion, there is always another layer to discover. And so this book is truly able to dive deeper than ever before into the beautiful wonders of queer faith.
God wants you to be holy, so you must not live in sexual immorality. Then each of you will live in a way that honors God, not in lustful desire like the Gentiles who do not know God
We renounce something smaller, a pleasure is smaller, in favor of something greater. And so today we strive for inner peace.
John, who rose from the depths of the sea, where he fished, to the heights of theology, found in Christ instead of a throne His own breast, on which he "leaned," and from where he, as a mystical observer of unspeakable things, brought us the deep mysteries of the high theology.
It is not about renouncing the world. Bathhouses are good, finances are good, and marketplaces are good too, provided they are used for G'tt and not against G'tt.
I believe we do well to, like Jesus, first see the person and not our supposed moral principles. And not our supposedly fixed laws. And not supposed truths of faith that always depend on the spirit of the times.
In particular, tearing other people's families apart out of greed and desire brings a very difficult situation for the wrongdoer.
The reason the Giordano Bruno Foundation is so committed to sexual and reproductive self-determination rights is that these are not a side issue in the political debate, but rather a core element of civil liberty
Stories shape our lives and in some cases help to define a person.
Above all, however, the book conveys the currently fashionable views in activist circles – and these are by no means uncontroversial.
Sin is failure in love. It is never wrong to love.
This form of surrogacy is fundamentally permitted, albeit under certain conditions.
I now realize that God does not show partiality; but in every nation, the person who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
When they speak of the protection of life, then they must also protect the lives of people who are already born.
The aim of the workshop is, alongside acceptance of differences, to foster awareness of commonalities that can offer a bridge to mutual understanding.
Anyone who speaks of the Christian image of humanity must not thereby ascribe a reduced dignity to certain ways of life.
The largely uncritical tolerance of the movement and the unremarked adoption of its external communication unnecessarily elevate this fundamentalist actor.
Call to the way of your Lord with what? With wisdom and goodly exhortation. With wisdom and goodly exhortation, and argue with them in the best manner.
What if the Trinity were an orgy, right? And you kind of imagine what kind of faith you would have from that perspective.
The decriminalization of abortion and the securing of reproductive rights are central to a free society in which all people can live safely and with self-determination
Jealousy is neither complaint nor tyranny, but it is the fortress of honor, the fence of virtue, and the proof of faith.
Through a series of new place signs, it celebrates how LGBTQIA+ communities reclaimed canal infrastructure and Victorian industrial spaces as sites of survival, solidarity, protest, and pride.
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