Judaism's Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism Rejected Homosexuality
Judaism's Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism Rejected Homosexuality Inventing homosexuality The revolutionary nature of Judaism's prohibiting all forms of non-marital sex was nowhere more radical, more …More
Judaism's Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism Rejected Homosexuality
Inventing homosexuality
The revolutionary nature of Judaism's prohibiting all forms of non-marital sex was nowhere more radical, more challenging to the prevailing assumptions of mankind, than with regard to homosexuality. Indeed, Judaism may be said to have invented the notion of homosexuality, for in the ancient world sexuality was not divided between heterosexuality and homosexuality. That division was the Bible's doing. Before the Bible, the world divided sexuality between penetrator (active partner) and penetrated (passive partner).
As Martha Nussbaum, professor of philosophy at Brown University, recently wrote, the ancients were no more concerned with people's gender preference than people today are with others' eating preferences:
Ancient categories of sexual experience differed considerably from our own... The central distinction in sexual morality was the distinction between active and passive roles. The gender of …More
Inventing homosexuality
The revolutionary nature of Judaism's prohibiting all forms of non-marital sex was nowhere more radical, more challenging to the prevailing assumptions of mankind, than with regard to homosexuality. Indeed, Judaism may be said to have invented the notion of homosexuality, for in the ancient world sexuality was not divided between heterosexuality and homosexuality. That division was the Bible's doing. Before the Bible, the world divided sexuality between penetrator (active partner) and penetrated (passive partner).
As Martha Nussbaum, professor of philosophy at Brown University, recently wrote, the ancients were no more concerned with people's gender preference than people today are with others' eating preferences:
Ancient categories of sexual experience differed considerably from our own... The central distinction in sexual morality was the distinction between active and passive roles. The gender of …More
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“Judaism cannot make peace with homosexuality because homosexuality denies many of Judaism’s most fundamental principles. It denies life, it denies God’s expressed desire that men and women cohabit, and it denies the root structure that Judaism wishes for all mankind, the family.”
I would say the same applies to Christianity as well.
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“Judaism cannot make peace with homosexuality because homosexuality denies many of Judaism’s most fundamental principles. It denies life, it denies God’s expressed desire that men and women cohabit, and it denies the root structure that Judaism wishes for all mankind, the family.”
I would say the same applies to Christianity as well.
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Pagan cultures probably came to the conclusion if they wanted their people to survive, have children and continue their lineage, heterosexual acts provided a higher level of success in attaining that goal than homosexual acts did. Of course by my stating what used to be known as common sense I am now guilty of “hate speech.”
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“Judaism cannot make peace with homosexuality because homosexuality denies many of Judaism’s most fundamental principles. It denies life, it denies God’s expressed desire that men and women cohabit, and it denies the root structure that Judaism wishes for all mankind, the family.”
I would say the same applies to Christianity as well.
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Pagan cultures probably came to the conclusion if they wanted their people to survive, have children and continue their lineage, heterosexual acts provided a higher level of success in attaining that goal than homosexual acts did. Of course by my stating what used to be known as common sense I am now guilty of “hate speech.”
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