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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Subject: Pagan Cross-Dressing (was Re: Homosexuality and Christianity)
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- References: <1992Nov11.182815.8566@spdcc.com> <eshepard.721949754@orion.oac.uci.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:23:51 GMT
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- In article <eshepard.721949754@orion.oac.uci.edu> eshepard@orion.oac.uci.edu (Ed Shepard) writes:
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- [Paul in Romans 1...]
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- he refers to typical
- : practices of the fertility cults involving sex among priestesses and between
- : men and eunuch prostitutes such as served Aphrodite at Corinth, from where he
- : was writing this letter to the Romans. Their self-castration rites resulted in
- : a bodily "penalty." Catherine Krueger comments in the Journal of the Evangelical
- : Theological Society that "Men wore veils and long hair as signs of their
- : dedication to the god, while women used the unveiling and shorn hair to
- : indicate their devotion. Men masqueraded as women, and in a rare vase painting
- : from Corinth a woman is dressed in satyr pants equipped with the male organ.
- : Thus she dances before Dionysus, a deity who had been raised as a girl and was
- : himself called male-female and 'sham man.'" Krueger continues: "The sex
- : exchange that characterized the cults of such great goddesses as Cybele
- : [Aphrodite, Ishtar, etc.] the Syrian goddess, and Artemis of Ephesus was more
- : grisly. Males voluntarily castrated themselves and assumed women's garments.
- : A relief from Rome shows a high priest of Cybele. The castrated priest wears
- : veil, necklaces, earrings and feminine dress. He is considered to have
- : exchanged his sexual identity and to have become a she-priest." As such, these
- : religious prostitutes would engage in same-sex orgies in the pagan temples all
- : along the coasts of Paul's missionary journeys.
-
- Seems rather similar to a San Francisco Gay Pride parade I
- once attended. Although most present-day cross-dressing men don't go
- as far as some of these men did in trying to become women. But guess
- what a man -> woman sex-change operation involves? Among other things,
- castration.
-
- Give me that old-time religion! :-):-)
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