RE: Was Jesus Gay?
July 30, 2018 at 6:02 pm
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2018 at 6:06 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 30, 2018 at 4:13 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Jesus was only 30 years old, not more than ten or fifteen years older than his disciples.His disciples weren't little kids looking for comfort from an adult. Why did the bible make a big deal about the fact that Jesus loved this disciple butt didn't give him a name? Why would a grown man lean on another man's bosom except for physically intimate love?
Was that intentional?
In so far as one might imagine there was truly a real Jesus who exhibited real and accurately recorded behaviors which can be fruitfully analyzed for evidence of a real underlying sexual proclivity and psychology, I would say that evidence alone is inconclusive.
Whether an individual behavior consititute evidence of homosexuality is heavily dependent on the cultural norm. Russian men traditionally kiss eachother on the cheek as a show of familiarity. In russian culture this would be considered polite behavior. In American culture the homophobia would consider the appropriate reaction to this to be a fist to the mouth.
If we don’t know in detail what the social norm for friendly behavior is, A single behavior would be a flimsy hook upon which to hang an assessment of homosexual inclination.
