Judaism's Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism Rejected Homosexuality

[AveSantaMaria]

catholiceducation.org/articles/homosexuality/ho0003.html

When Judaism demanded that all sexual activity be channeled into marriage, it changed the world. The Torah’s prohibition of non-marital sex quite simply made the creation of Western civilization possible.

Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity.

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[manualman]

A fascinating article. Thanks for the link.

 

[Crumpy]

Praeger’s article is excellent. Thanks.

 

[Badaliyyah]

Societies that did not place boundaries around sexuality were stymied in their development. The subsequent dominance of the Western world can largely be attributed to the sexual revolution initiated by Judaism and later carried forward by Christianity.

Oh yea. Those backward and unsuccessful civilizations of Greece and Rome…the poor Egyptians, they didn’t do much. Or the Chinese. etc, etc. I mean when exactly does one see the “dominance of the Western world”…maybe beginning around 1500: that’s an awful long time to wait for the payoff of an earth-shattering sexual revolution that supposedly changed the course of history more than a thousand of years before the birth of Christ.

And he admits that the ban on homosexuality sits side by side with the permission to keep slaves. Are we supposed to draw the conclusion here (given his argument in favor of the Bible’s moral authority) that just like Bible is right on calling homosexuality ok, it is likewise right on affirming slavery? I wonder if that will be his next wonderful article: how we need to recover the tradition of owning people so that we can protect the dominance of Western civilization.

salaam.

 

[Bennie_P]

Oh yea. Those backward and unsuccessful civilizations of Greece and Rome…the poor Egyptians, they didn’t do much. Or the Chinese. etc, etc. I mean when exactly does one see the “dominance of the Western world”…maybe beginning around 1500: that’s an awful long time to wait for the payoff of an earth-shattering sexual revolution that supposedly changed the course of history more than a thousand of years before the birth of Christ.

And he admits that the ban on homosexuality sits side by side with the permission to keep slaves. Are we supposed to draw the conclusion here (given his argument in favor of the Bible’s moral authority) that just like Bible is right on calling homosexuality ok, it is likewise right on affirming slavery? I wonder if that will be his next wonderful article: how we need to recover the tradition of owning people so that we can protect the dominance of Western civilization.

salaam.

Very selective in reading I see

As for slavery, while the Bible declares homosexuality wrong, it never declares slavery good.

Did we read the same article as I?

 

[Badaliyyah]

Did we read the same article as I?

It is legal. How bad can it be?

I did read it. His treatment of the Bible was lame (on top of the absurd historical thesis at the beginning). He made selective hay out of “abomination” while trying to gloss over the fact that people got executed for sneezing at the wrong time (which is not quite hyperbole), and approves of all sorts of things we find horrific (not hyperbole at all).

but I am glad you enjoyed it.

salaam.