RE: Danger! Danger! Even the bible has been manipulated by the feudal masters to gain control and power!

Amazing post! Thank you for this! In my opinion, a book of words created and organized by humans, such as a the Bible, is but a tool by humans to influence and control humans. How could "the word of God" be put into such humancentric contex?

I love how you have dug into the changing of words and contex to show how it has been used over the ages to promote and justify an agenda. I am really curious about the passages speaking against homosexuality. My theory has always been that a king wanted/needed as many subjects as possible to tax and fill his army. If man was laying with man and woman with woman, this would lessen the rate of procreation and therefor his wealth and power. -Any insight on that?

Thank you for sharing knowledge and opinion.

I'll let Bishop Spong answer your question. Here is a quote from his book "Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism":

The Word of God in Scripture confronts me with the revelation that all human beings are created in God’s image and reflect God’s holiness. All human beings means all human beings … all human beings. Men and women, homosexual persons and heterosexual persons, all races, nationalities, and persons of any ethnic background, all communists and capitalists, rich and poor, old and young, religious and nonreligious, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and Hindus, atheists and agnostics – all persons reflect the holiness of God, for all are made in God’s image. How can I enslave, segregate, denigrate, oppress, violate, or victimize one who bears the image of the Holy One? How can one worship the source of being, the great “I AM”, except by having the courage to be the self God created each of us to be? The Christian is the one called so deeply into life, into love, and into being that he or she can say with a Christlike integrity, I AM!