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General All-Purpose Quick Prayer

Lord, Give me the wit to know what I am doing, Amen

My Favourite Translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

My favourite translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 is from The Message. Don’t you realize that this is not the way to live? Unjust people who don’t care about God will not be joining in his kingdom. Those who use and abuse each other, use and abuse sex, use and abuse the earth and everything in it, […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 8 years ago

Christianity Gay

My Least Favourite Translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

I think my least favourite translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 is the New King James translation: Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 8 years ago

Gay

Why I’m Not Going to See Ender’s Game

A few years ago I read the novel Ender’s Game. It is a good, if somewhat odd, book about a child soldier in the year 2070. There is a movie based on the book, which is currently on general release in the UK. I’m not going to see the movie. Why? Because Orson Scott Card, the […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 8 years ago

Christianity

The Sun Passes It’s D’oh! Levels!

Today The Sun gained a D’oh! Level in hypocrisy to go with the one it has in sexism.

Andrew McFarland Campbell 8 years ago

Christianity

Same-Sex Relationships: 1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy Revisited

My paper on 1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy was discussed on a Facebook group recently. One of the contributors made some interesting points about it, and I want to address them here. I have read your article, and if I could sum up your thesis in one sentence, it would be, “1 Cor. 6:9-10 is […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 8 years ago

Christianity

I am a Fundamentalist

I am a Christian fundamentalist. This may come as a surprise to you if you have read anything else on this blog. It will come as a surprise to you if you have ever actually met me in person. It was a bit of a shock to me when I realised, to be honest. I […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 8 years ago

Christianity

Scifientology

A few weeks ago I was in a Catholic holy shop that sold various things like Bibles, prayer cards, and religious statues and ornaments. I wasn’t buying anything, I was just there with Michael as he was browsing. A week or two after that I was in a comic book store. I didn’t go in […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 8 years ago

Christianity Gay

Andrew McFarland Campbell’s Very Short Guide to Debunking The Six Traditional Clobber Passages

There are six passages traditionally used to say you can’t be gay and Christian: Genesis 19, Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13, Romans 1, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, and 1 Timothy 1:9-10. Genesis 19 is about gang rape. Anyone who says this has anything to say about consensual relationships has bigger problems than Biblical interpretation. Leviticus is part […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 8 years ago

HIV

Happy Birthday Ryan White

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine, PA Maglochlainn, died. PA fought to make the world a better place, and while he wasn’t old when he died, he wasn’t a young man either. Today would have been Ryan White’s 41st birthday, but Ryan died in 1990, at the age of 18. Ryan was a […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years agoJuly 27, 2021