Let's not pretend Quran is the only Islamic source for rulings there is, that's simply not true, with all due respect. Mohammed taught the Sharia by means of oral tradition. Much of the Islamic faith guidelines, Sunnah, laws, do not come from Quran. They come from Hadith. And all schools of thought are in agreement about that, and also in agreement that the companions of the Prophet endorsed death penalty for the condition of homosexuality. And there are examples of that in the verified Hadith's. Of course you may not choose to believe in Hadith, but then you might as well not believe in much of the Sunnah, and other teachings that derive from Hadith. And some schools of thought will say it's entering disbelief if you reject Hadith.
Me myself, I'm not in favor of that, I'm an agnostic-atheist. So I have no agenda here. I'm bothered however, by the denial Christians, Muslims and Jews put themselves through, regarding key tenets of their religions. This incident will now be used by some Christian and Jewish circles, to emphasize how Islam is brutal, and how it's a religion of Satan, because of certain laws in Islam, such as apostasy or homosexuality judicial punishments. But, those same people don't know, Islam just brought that down from Judaism, actually much of Islam is literal taken down from Judaism. Jews know what is controversial in their religion, so they get rid of the most controversial things, such as the Talmud scriptures, to try projecting different meaning to their religion. Which just simply proves, by taking logical route, of disbanding much of scripture that supposedly came from their God, that they deny their God and treat their religion as if it's a man made religion. Otherwise they would keep the controversial scriptures since it's supposedly from a divine source. My argument makes absolutely sense, it's just semi-religious people don't like facing the reality here.
And to expand on my point, because they took logical route, now they have credibility to attack Islam, and Muslim's will be unfairly attacked over scripture that is actually originating from the original Abrahamic/Biblical scriptures that Jews and Christians profess to follow. So while I don't have positive views on Abrahamic faiths, my point here actually is beneficial for Muslims.
Now regarding the biblical scriptures on homosexuality:
- Leviticus 18:22, "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."1
- Leviticus 20:13, "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltness is upon them."
- 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, "Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
- Romans 1:26-28, "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper."
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PS, none of that is 'biblical', it's actually all Jewish scripture which Christians use. Hence this is product of both religions. Some will say it is old testament and no longer relevant, yeah no. Like I said, you took logical approach to clean up your religion. When there is no such permission by the supposed 'Divine Lord' that you allowed you to do that.
I'm an agnostic-atheist and not taking anything out of context. I'm speaking about general established guidelines for society, among all three Abrahamic religions. They are all not favorable towards homosexuality, and they all actually implement death penalty for it. Even one of the most important stories in all the three religions, the story of Lot and his tribe, make it very clear where the Abrahamic God stands in regards to homosexuality.
Instead of being in denial, why can't the educated of you just admit you perceive these religions as man-made religions? Or are you guys claiming the 'Divine God' made some mistakes when condemning gays, and many other things? A perfect God can't make such mistakes. So what is going on here, is these followers of these religions made up their own God, and hence have no issue altering their own God's views, and suddenly claiming he no longer stands for such things, or that he has now become a moderate figure because we're entering modern times....
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and how is he a racist?? is Islam a race? 
