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To: Huber

I looked up those Scripture references. They are the story of the Centurion who asked Jesus to heal his servant. What the heck have they to do with what this man claims they do?


5 posted on 06/16/2009 9:19:04 AM PDT by RonF
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To: RonF; Huber
Just the usual liberal homophile tripe that ANYBODY who has a friendly relationship with a person of the same sex is "really" homosexual.

C.S. Lewis has something to say about this reductionist thinking in The Four Loves:

"Hrothgar embracing Beowulf - Boswell embracing Johnson - a pretty flagrantly heterosexual couple. And all those hairy old toughs of centurions in Tacitus, clinging to one another and begging for last kisses when the Legion was breaking up - all pansies? If you can believe that, you can believe anything."

6 posted on 06/16/2009 10:20:23 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: RonF

They claim the use of the word greek word for “boy” in one account must mean that the servant was the centurion’s child sex slave. Never mind there’s nothing in the passages to indicate that. (As in other unfortunate eras of slavery, however, the term “boy” was also commonly used to denote a servant or slave.)


8 posted on 06/16/2009 1:35:17 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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