Ugh I’m so sorry to hear this. Absolutely awful. Sending good vibes

6/ (For Latter-day Saints, the stakes are slightly different. This tradition leans less on biblical hermeneutics and more on continuing revelation through prophetic leadership. But interpretation still matters—because prophets read texts too. And culture shapes what they’re willing to see.)

5/ The real question isn’t what the Bible says. It’s how we choose to read it—and who we’re willing to harm to keep reading it the old way.

4/ Today, we’re watching that fight happen again—this time over gender and sexuality. The stakes feel familiar: exclusion cloaked in piety vs. a faith that liberates.

Christianity isn’t being corrupted by queer inclusion. It’s being refined—just like it was when it broke with slavery.

3/ Literalists lost. Slowly, painfully, they had to admit: the Bible had to be read through a bigger lens—one that could challenge oppression, not sanctify it.

That wasn’t “liberal drift.” It was a reckoning with the text’s moral trajectory. A fight for a Bible that could breathe justice.

2/ In the 19th century, American Christianity fractured over slavery. The dividing line? Whether to read the Bible by the letter—or by its deeper moral vision.

Happy reading!!

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