As NBC used to say, "The More You Know."
The first time the word “homosexual” appeared in the Bible was
in 1946. That year, a committee gathered to translate an updated
English version of the book from the Greek. Religious scholars, priests,
theologists, linguists, anthropologists, and activists have done
decades of research and investigation into the instances where the word
appears in the book. Their conclusion is that it was a mistranslation.
In other words, the Biblical assertion that homosexuality is a sin—the catalyst for an entire shift in culture, with political repercussions, religious implications, consequences for LGBT rights and acceptance, and, frankly, deadly results—was, they allege, a mistake.
As a new film asserts, it was “the misuse of a single word that changed the course of history.”
1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture is
a new documentary directed by Sharon “Rocky” Roggio. Ahead of its
premiere this week at the DOC NYC festival, it has, as one might expect,
gone viral within the conservative and Christian communities.