homophobia

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I mean, how did it start?

My hunch is that it was a way of trying to separate themselves from the Greeks.

Homosexuality was common among the Greeks and from 333 to roughly 140 BC the Greeks were ruling the whole area. The Book of Maccabees essentially gives us a picture of primitive "jews" struggling against far more modern Greeks of the Seleucid Empire. Coincidentally, that seems to be the time period when this OT shit was concocted into what is its present form.

Consider this excerpt from pages 39-40 of Israel Finkelstein's "The Bible Unearthed." He is in effect telling a 7th century BC ethnic joke....and jesus freaks worship this shit.



Like I said, call it a hunch but the goat fuckers were trying to draw a distinction between themselves and the faggy Greeks!