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** Oddly enough, the knee jerk hand wave to the former is it's [[Not What It Looks Like]], meaning it apparently even looks like [[Ho Yay]] even to conservative Christians.

*** Rabbinical essays on the love between David and Jonathan have pointed out that the translators of the King James Bible made some pretty slick changes to the original story to make it ''less'' homoerotic. In one scene, David sees Jonathan after a long journey and, shall we say, achieves priapic splendor - at least in the Hebrew. In English he just "exceeds" - which scholars claim means he cried a lot.

***** [[Sarcasm Mode|Yes, because it's not like they might have wanted one last encounter or anything...]]

* Jesus was always surrounded by a dozen men all the time, and several counts of men kissing each other. True, that was the typical greeting at the time, but taken out of context:

** This troper panicked and tried to describe the disciples thing as "They're Jesus' sidekicks. They're like Batman and Robin." Which only made my church youth director give me a ''look'' and say, "Are you sure you don't want to rephrase that? Find a different example, maybe?" Uh, oops.

** John's gospel in some versions has him speak in third person. His name for himself? "The one Jesus/He loved." Now, sure, Jesus loves everyone, but when you give yourself the title of THE one he loved, maybe there's a little possessiveness there . . .

* God and Abraham. Think about it. A special relationship...involving Abraham's penis. Considering what [[Eldritch Abomination|God is]], it's kind of wierd.