teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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1960s Sexual Revolution
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Christian conservatives can’t bear the thought of people fucking without a license. Or, as H.L. Mencken put it, ‘Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy.’
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 RE: 1960s Sexual Revolution
February 19, 2025 at 11:54 am
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2025 at 11:54 am by awty.)
A large part of the issue was the birth control pill. The idea that women could perhaps control if they got pregnant or not scared the crap out of the patriarchy. Women were not supposed to have that sort of control over their reproductive parts. The issue of who is the father was to be controlled by men, not women and heaven forbid a woman want to have sex with someone for a reason other than procreation.
The churches that preached "Be fruitful and multiply" saw this as blasphemous. The pill freed women to a certain extent and, of course, that was is seen as a bad thing. 
mmm... can't give women a choice, they might start thinking they were as good as men!!
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Wait, wimmenfolk controlling their own cooch? When did this happen?!
 (February 19, 2025 at 11:54 am)arewethereyet Wrote: A large part of the issue was the birth control pill. The idea that women could perhaps control if they got pregnant or not scared the crap out of the patriarchy. Women were not supposed to have that sort of control over their reproductive parts. The issue of who is the father was to be controlled by men, not women and heaven forbid a woman want to have sex with someone for a reason other than procreation. This threatened not just patriarchy, women having control over when and how many children they have threatened the avarice of the capital class as well. Can't maintain endless growth with a shrinking population. |
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