Hey, now. No picking on Babylonian whores.
If religion was like this I might have given it a chance.
Quote:"There is one custom amongst these people which is wholly shameful: every woman who is a native of the country must once in her life go and sit in the temple of Aphrodite [Ishtar] and there give herself to a strange man." (Herodotus, Book I, para 199)
According to the historian, a man throws the woman a silver coin of any value and utters a prescribed phrase invoking the goddess. Once propositioned thusly, the woman cannot refuse the offer, and must prostitute herself. There has been speculation that the description of this custom, combined with the mention of the "prostitution of all girls of the lower classes" (Herodotus, Book I, para 199) are the root causes of Babylon’s reputation for sexual impropriety – specifically within portions of the Bible. For example, "Babylon the great, the mother of prostitutes, and of the abominations of the earth"
If religion was like this I might have given it a chance.
