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Vivian Ho

Did Christian homophobia come from a mistranslation of the Bible?

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‘What we need to do is see that this is a text that is time-bound, that is determined by the culture in which it was written.’ Photograph: 1946

What if all the anti-gay, homophobic rhetoric that has come from the Christian right over these past few decades was rooted in a mistranslation of the Bible?

In the documentary, 1946: The Mistranslation that Shifted Culture, researchers and scholars delve into the 1946 mistranslation of 1 Corinthians 6:9 and explore how it fuelled the Christian anti-gay movement that still thrives today.

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