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Acrosanti In reply to ShamuHydri [2019-06-20 17:08:57 +0000 UTC]

It's a newer variation on the traditional pride flag, that was designed and introduced last year. Here's an article explaining it and what the stripes mean - tl;dr, it's to highlight racial diversity in the queer community that people often forget about.

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ShamuHydri In reply to Acrosanti [2019-06-21 09:41:53 +0000 UTC]

You know what, I hope they replace all gay rainbow flags to have those 2 new additional stripes then soon. I always found the traditional old gay flag to not be good and thought it needed to be reworked at some point anyway. Because literally, in Christianity, the rainbow is an anti-gay symbol, it has been before gay prides began using rainbows as their icon. Thanks for linking the article, I'll read through it and send it to a couple of friends too.

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Acrosanti In reply to ShamuHydri [2019-06-22 01:24:41 +0000 UTC]

I was born and raised in a Christian household and the only thing the rainbow meant in the context of Christianity is a promise from God to the people that he wouldn't ever flood the world again to wipe out humanity and start over. I see Christians get pissy about the LGBT community "appropriating" rainbows, but I don't know that I've ever actually seen it used as an outright anti-gay symbol by them? I've gone digging online and I can't find anything about it ever being an anti-gay symbol, just that it has been used across various cultures and always has a positive/hopeful meaning tied to it, and in more recent years there are pastors crying about it being "offensive" for us to be using it.

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ShamuHydri In reply to Acrosanti [2019-06-22 16:24:10 +0000 UTC]

There's a small bit of context missing. The main reason the world was flooded to begin with was because God was disapointed and everyone was, in his eyes, sinning left and right, breaking every commandment and doing each sin, which heavily implies the whole gay thing too. The rainbow was essencially a promise that ''human kind will never reach this level of law breaking again (including gay behaviours becoming wide spread). It is partly to symbolize him never ''restarting'' again with another flood, but also to symbolize the ''end'' of gays, promiscuity, greed, revenge, etc. (idk how to word it correctly so I'm saying ''end'' not literally) I've seen some random christians on forums randomly post a pic where it's the rainbow, and each stripe has a quote about sins and stuff Jesus said (I don't remember exactly cuz I found the image try-hard and cringey) and it mentioned something anti-gay a few times. I've seen it a good few times, but never paid much attention since I didn't care about try-hards and honestly forgot exactly what it said. Noticed that in some forums when you bring up the LGBT, occationally some catholic ass dude will post that rainbow image, and add ''Jesus wants his anti-gay rainbow back''?? Idr. It's been a long time since I've gone on any forums. But yeah, that's what I was referring to. There's a lot of small segments, morals, messages, etc in the bible you can't google. Learned that when in my heavily catholic themed literature and christian analysis classes we had to learn a bunch of lessons from the bible, yet when I would google that exact symbolism or moral lessons from the bible, I would be greeted with 0 results. I think the bible is composed of 66 books, that's why you can't google everything about it, so keep that in mind. That and maybe catholics and protestants interpret parts of the bible differently, since there's plenty of ambiguity in it.

I grew up in an extremely hyper christian country and half of our classes were christian themed, hence why I even know of these random things.

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Acrosanti In reply to ShamuHydri [2019-06-22 17:34:15 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow, yeah, that does put things in context. I do recall that bit about humans being so awful and the flood story dealing with humans never reaching that point again, but in my own lessons growing up they never touched on it being specifically about gay people, just an overarching sense of wickedness in any sense you could imagine. I also have never gone near any forums online where those kind of people post so I haven't seen those kinds of posts, but I can definitely believe they're out there based on what I accidentally stumble across here and there in my browsings. But! Just because I haven't seen/heard about it first-hand, doesn't mean there aren't people out there touting it in that manner.

Yeah, there's definitely too much going on in the Bible and too many different translations floating around to find every single thing online. There also seems to be a pretty big culture difference between both whatever sects of Christianity we were taught + how our areas of our countries spun things for us. Hell, even where I've lived throughout my life I've heard things that allegedly were regularly taught by the sect I was raised in that I've never heard before. Religion is nuts.

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Acrosanti In reply to Spoonfayse [2019-06-07 16:30:17 +0000 UTC]

I had no idea about it myself until maybe a week ago! I like it a lot.

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