In a recent video, Brian Murphy — a vlogger and co-founder of Queer Theology, a site for LGBTQ Christians — referred to Jesus Christ as a pansexual, polyamorous slut … and he’s kinda right.
In the video Murphy says, “If you’re one of those people who believes in the importance of a personal relationship with Jesus, well, Jesus is having personal relationships with billions of other people too. He’s kind of a relationship slut — an empowered, reclaimed sort of slut.”
Murphy says few people would frame Jesus in those exact terms, and he admits that his thinking might be affected by the fact that he himself identifies as a polyamorous Christian slut.
But he still calls polyamorous relationships “a Biblical model of relationships.”
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As proof, Murphy points to Paul’s letter in the New Testament Book of Ephesians, in which Paul (one of the church’s earliest and most influential founders) repeatedly refers to people’s relationships with Christ as marriages.
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“We already recognize that God’s love for us isn’t diminished by God’s love for others and that each of us can have a unique transcendent relationship with the divine,” Murphy says. “Our relationship with God can be a model for our romantic and sexual relationships as well.”
Jesus is polymarous
Posted by Queer Theology on Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Murphy’s argument becomes all the more convincing when you realize that Jesus told 12 dudes (his disciples) to leave their wives and spend their adult lives just hanging out with him. He also kissed one of his followers, Judas, and told the guys at his last supper together to imagine that the bread they were eating was his body — effectively putting himself inside each and every one of them. Pretty kinky.
It’s also worth noting that many men in the Bible had more than just one wife, meaning that polyamory is indeed Christian in a Biblical way.
Ultimately, Murphy’s video pushes his website’s polyamory section with resources for queer poly Christians. But he’s hardly the first theologian to assert that Jesus was gay.
In 2011, a discovery of ancient texts from Jordan included tales of Jesus celebrating male same-sex relationships, leading writer Michael Ruse to assert that “Jesus Christ was unambiguously and openly gay.”
Lacuevaman
1 Corinthians 13:12
Teddy Ready
What EVER !!! What difference is this baloney wet-dreamin’ theory going to make & even making it all sound probable & realistic comes as close as the Cruxifiction is to an animated Walt Disney Movie. Sexuality is as broad & infinite as Spirituality when all is said & done anyway !! Spend time studying better subject’s please. This one bites the dust !!!
QueerTruth
This is BS babble times ten. None of the claimed reclaimed texts have been fully translated or validated in any approachable way.
This is simply another “believer” ramming whatever crazy bologna he wants into the idea of Jesus and Christianity. Sure… have fun… but shut up. It’s all BS.
Vince
I have a trouble listening to him. He sounds like Bert from Bert and Ernie.
Kangol
Terrance McNally’s 1998 play Corpus Christi covers some of this, including a gay Jesus and His disciples. McNally and various productions of the play, including in New York, have received numerous denunciations from conservative politicians and threats from the far-right over the years.
ingyaom
Plenty of Greek gods were “polyamorous sluts”, too… and a lot more interesting than this Hebrew guy.
Dwik27
Trying to draw attention to himself in a very teenagery kind of way. YAWN.
QueerTruth
Don’t insult teenagers… this is simply propaganda for this guys site. It’s all crap. No evidence to this in any way shape or form.
David
Ugh, this is a classic case of “moron makes God in his own image”. I have a theology degree, I’m also gay, and you can be a gay Christian without trying to penetrate your faith with your dick. You can think it’s okay to be slutty without having to turn God into a slut. Using sexual terms to discuss God’s relationship with humanity is inherently rapey and I really wish more queer theologians would get this.
Sex cults we’re consistently prohibited by the authors of the Bible through out multiple ages because when you mix religion with sex you get sexual abuse, 100% of the time.
Jesus also consistently uses familial language, God is father, Jesus refers to his disciples as brothers and sisters, etc. So if you want to take this sexual language to the next level we’re all incestuous. But we don’t take it that far because metaphors are metaphors.
Romantic relationships are eros, your relationship with God should be agape, if you don’t know the difference you shouldn’t call yourself a theologian, because you’re not.
Large Hardon Collider
Yeah, I thought immediately, ‘I bet this guy doesn’t even know the difference between agape and eros.’ Typical mistake of American religious twits who forget that the Bible wasn’t actually written in English. (Not even the old-time King James “verily” & “begat” lingo.)
Also it doesn’t necessarily mean much that Jesus kissed Judas (or any other guy). It’s still common for men to kiss in many cultures that are quite homophobic.
GLF
Yes, precisely.
mr guy
Basing your 21st century life decions, ethics, morality and everything on an ancient religious text is supreme stupidity… but contorting said batsh1t fiction beyond recognition in order to give yourself permission to be a “slut” or whatever is not just supreme stupidity but also intellectually pusillanimous and literally BAD FAITH
alfred
This guy’s youtube videos are super cringe…..and his twitter feed is even worse.
OzJosh
Wack-job Christians who try to make a case for Jesus being gay, polyamorous or even gay-friendly are just as delusional as standard-issue Christians basing their homophobia on evidence that is almost as thin. The truth is that Jesus is depicted in the bible as being weirdly, some would say creepily sexless. It’s one of the most strikingly unbelievable things about him. If anything, it points to him being a fictional construct, not any kind of real person. Yet another failing of the not very believable storytelling of “the good book”. More to the point, anyone trying to prop up the Christian religion with stupid attempts to give Jesus some kind of gay street-cred is only aiding and abetting an institution that is fundamentally homophobic.
Toofie
Lord, stretching the Bible into a pretzel to fit your life is a waste. Just live your life and be a good person.
ChrisGMN
Fake news. Yawn. These scrolls were found to be frauds some time ago. Just another huxter trying to get attention.
Yooper
Any article that begins with “Brian Murphy — a vlogger and co-founder of Queer Theology” has my attention for all the wrong reasons. What exactly is a “vlogger” besides another thirsty twat trying to get noticed.
vivien
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