The Homophobic Obsession Of The Catholic Church

[sesame]

The Pope is an angry old man... like all the ridiculous muslim imams yelling for their socalled "true way to God".
...And more often than not it tends to have absolutely nothing to do with God.... God is love and He has never (by my knowledge) personally expressed any homo- or transfobic sentiments....no need to worry of man-made religions when in the end it is the dear Lord who'll do the judging :-)

It was sheer pleasure reading it. And it seems that you have a good understanding of what most organised religions really are. A group of men manipulating a larger group of dim witted people, by injecting inhibitions and guilt into their innocent minds.
The church as an organised body, has been doing this for Ages. They are forcing us to follow a prescribed set of behaviors, otherwise we are sinners! What is this hullaballoo about SIN? Keep your conscience clear to God and thats it. Let God do the judgement, not some old puritan bigot dressed in a funny headdress.
Yeah, I'm good and contented. And I'm neither a hypocrite politician, nor a trembling "god fearing" sinner. Fear not, Amen.

[sesame]

the bible was written by man, the rules of religion were written by man. how the hell does anyone know what god REALLY wants? he could be saying "dance around naked, sacrifice goats and shave your butts daily" for all we know. i mean hell - thats if there IS a god. maybe god is a shemale? "who dares look upon the rack of infinite wisdom and longs to suck the dick of unshakable faith!?"
dont get me wrong, i have a couple of religious beliefs (be kind to your fellow man, thou shalt not commit adultery etc etc) but religion is all alot of guess work.

Revolutionary, outrageous and downright funny. Bloody Brilliant!!
"Heresy! Thou shalt be judged and burnt at stake!" As the old and terrible Popes of by-gone ages might have said.
I am a believer, by the way.

[Bionca]

Hermaphrodytus... Where the term "Hermaphrotyte" comes

was a Greek deity made from the union of Hermes (Logic and reason) and Aphrodyte (Passion and Beauty). This deity had the sex characteristics of both male and female and was thought to represent perfection.

History has a number of examples of religiously significant people who would probably be termed "transgendered". The imported Roman Goddess Cybele had priests who would castrate themselves and dress and live as women. The Goddess Ishtar/Ashera/Innanna had priests who lives as priestesses and bestowed the blessings of the goddess sexually to the male population. In the US the natives had the "Berdache" or "Two-Spirit" people - men and women who were understood to be both male and female and neither ast the same time. There were ceremonies that could only be performed by one of these special people, and taking one as a wife (or husband since not all of them liked men) was an honor. They performed the labor of both men as women and were thought to be better able to communicate with "spirits" because of their understanding of both male and female.

As far as the Abrahamic faiths go, there is a long history of supressing the feminine. Both homophobia and transphobia have their root in this as well as "good old" sexism. The Church needs a strong Male deity, so women and "not-men" must be week and weakness must be punished. That and sex is scary, especially sex for pleasure not for babies.

[sesame]

Hermaphroditus: son of Hermes and Aphrodite with whom the nymph Salmacis merged to form one body, and the urge to fuse was all her's (obsessive possessive #@%%***). He was practically raped by her. All the poor guy ever wanted was to be free to move around far and wide exploring the universe!

[Joebad]

I have read the Bible cover to cover numerous times. I've gone to Bible school and a school for Christian ministry. I also was a licensed minister for several years.

I guess I'm going to have to be the dissenter. The Bible clearly teaches that homosexuality is a sin in both the old and new testaments. The Bible also teaches that the books of the Bible were written by men who were under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit (literally, the Bible was "God Breathed").

Having written that, I should also write that Jesus Christ Himself said,
"For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved."


We are all sinners in need of salvation, not just homosexuals.

[BlueRaven88]

Christianity

The belief that a cosmic jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.....yeah makes perfect sense.

[Joebad]

Originally Posted by BlueRaven88

Christianity

The belief that a cosmic jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.....yeah makes perfect sense.

Well you can scoff all you want, but that "cosmic jewish zombie" changed the whole world. His teachings are believed by Christians and respected by Jews, Muslims and Hindus.
His existance is historically recorded and his birth, death and ressurection were predicted as far back as 700 years before he was born.