“Out-and-proud homosexuals are bitter and furious with a society that defines sex as what men and women are biologically.”
HLPhat, you do not understand the worldview underlying and fueling the above complaint. It is a religiously Gnostic pagan worldview which holds physical matter (i.e., the human body and this world in general) as the source of evil and suffering. In "Adversus nationes" (2.37) the Gnostic pagan Arnobius gives voice to this very complaint,
"If souls were of the Lord's race...They would never come to these terrestrial places (and) inhabit opaque bodies and (be) mixed with humors and blood, in receptacles of excrement, in vases of urine." (The Pagan Temptation, Thomas Molnar, p. 27)
Molnar explains that from Plato to Plotinus, it was held as axiomatic that from being as one with or an aspect of the evolving, impersonal, androgynous Divine One Substance, Gnostic Pleroma, Brahmin, or Quantum Void, for example (this is monism) souls, sparks, or essences had inexplicably fallen into the material realm, a place of misery, suffering and binary. Binary means two distinctly different things, and in the case of the homosexual complaint it means two distinct biological sexes rather than a two-in- one, the androgynous being called 'gay’ ‘ transgender’ and ‘LGBTQXYZ’ in modern terminology. Salvation was secured through the mystery cults which,
"...afforded their devotees the opportunity to erase the curse of mortality by direct encounter with the patron deity or in many instances by actually undergoing an apotheosis, a transfiguration of human into divine. The process of 'initiation' in the mystery religions, therefore, had as its objective the liberation of the soul from its earthly...chains" (C.K. Barrett cited in "The Interruption of Eternity," Carl A. Raschke, p. 28)
Monism is held in common by all of the world’s ancient mystery religions underlying modern Secular Humanism (evolutionary secular humanism) and occult New Age spirituality, a kind of Cosmic Humanism firmly anchored in Hinduism and Buddhism. As well, neo-paganism, materialism, witchcraft and Scientology are of the world view of monism which teaches that all that exists is one self-evolved, self-sufficient substance and/or energy field aka Nature (capital N) which may be divine spirit, impersonal mind (pantheism) or spiritless physical substance (materialism). The primary creative energy that emerges out of the One Substance is variously known as Natural Selection, Evolution, and Kundalini, for example.
If you want to see a visual depiction of the Divine One Substance visit the webpage of the U.N.s Meditation Room. The room is a pyramid lying on its side. In place of a capstone is a large occult painting. Its’ occult symbolism depicts the One Substance and its’ creative energies. The Room caters to the world’s Gnostic, Hindu, Buddhist pagan and pantheist ‘elites’---practitioners of the ancient magic way of becoming god.
BTW HLPhat, the Frankfurt School consisted of Gnostic Manichaen materialists.
