Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion

[The Grand Nudger]

Sex was only kosher within the confines of an approved relationship, and wouldn't you know it, there was only one kind of approved relationship. It's utterly ridiculous to suggest that the abrahamists, who've all had a long and explicit tradition about homosexuality as an abomination, didn't know what gay was. They knew. Gay was Jacob down there who wouldn't leave your son alone. Gay was your daughter Rebecca, who violently refused every boy you tried to sell her to and kept running of with the neighbor girl. To the old magic bookists...gayness was foreign. It was the thing the Other people down the hill were up to and not jewish. One of the many ways they were stealing the jewish girls and ruining the jewish boys and a clear sign of the coming destruction of the land and people at the hands of god. It's in the rules, the prophets talk about it, and rabbinical literature is downright pregnant with it. To the new magic bookists it was that and roman too, a holdover from the bad old times before they captured the roman state and culture. It was part of the cause of the antonine plagues (according to the them) that would be instrumental to the spread and development of christianity. Not much has changed today, really, as the abrahamists in the us believe that they need to eliminate homosexuality..which is fundamentally european and not american, so that god will not send disasters, or as a precondition to bestowing blessings on the land.

That some contemporary apologists realize this long standing view is an existential issue for the faith in a society with a less narrow view of permissable sex isn't entirely unlike their need to come up with a rationalized version of their magical religion. It's not easy to say god was wrong without saying god was wrong. It took them about 1k years to realize that it didn't look good to lack a rational grounding, and then it took them another 1k years to realize it didn't look good to lack a moral grounding. Neither of these things is anyone's problem but their own, and there's no point in making excuses for why this happened as they themselves will blow up any excuse anyone deigns to offer in history or in present.