Political theology has not yet fully reconceptualized around the metaphysical, if not to say sexual (see Saint Pelagius), rift between Europe and Islam from 10th to 12th centuries, signaling a shift toward constructions of religious statehood a bit deeper in the spiritual ether

We were there, we learned what we were meant to. The bibles are full of people placed in bizarre circumstances because they would need it later for something true and wholesome

"America is exceptional!" Not it the hereafter you ain't

The particular becomes so particular that it's the ideal general, making it the object of the impending biblical

Isn't this just how every religion starts before it gets co-opted by the empire?

Check out "Deviant Sexualities in the Context of Empire" by Menéndez-Antuña. Revelation is an equal opportunity hard-hitter, challenging the reader's "ideological, religious, political, and economical commitments." If the symbology's shoe fits one thing, it doesn't mean it can't fit another.

All divine truth has contradictions because the feeling of dissonance is human and makes us grow beyond what we would if it were simple

There's an absolutely brutal, uh, joke in the Quran:

One day God leans down and says to Hell, "Hey are you full yet?" And Hell replies, "You got any more?"

And then God slides Paradise a little closer to the careful penitent.

Insights have come to you from your authority. Whoever sees, it is to the benefit of their soul; and whoever does not care to look, it is to its detriment. I am not a guardian over you, and I seek not ignorance. Blessings and peace ~

No worries ~ As you may suspect I have a whole list of unorthodox explanations for why things are worded so. It's important that people greatly harmed by religious ideas be able to achieve a full break. I guess my strategy is to help people resisting capitalism et al to see scripture as an safe ally

Seemingly, Jesus addresses queer people in 3 Nephi: "Behold, I know your thoughts, and ye have desired the thing which John, my beloved, who was with me in my ministry, before that I was lifted up by the Jews, desired of me. Therefore, more blessed are ye, for ye shall never taste of death. [...]"

Interested to know some examples from the Torah, Gospel, and Quran that you believe are difficult to see past ~