Posted on 07/23/2022 10:23:07 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
A top Italian history professor has caused outrage after he claimed that the Roman Empire fell due to the rise of homosexuality.
Roberto De Mattei, 63, a devout Roman Catholic, had already raised eyebrows by saying the Japan tsunami was "divine punishment", and now with his latest claim he faces calls to resign.
"The collapse of the Roman Empire and the arrival of the Barbarians was due to the spread of homosexuality," the Daily Mail quoted the vice-president of Italy's prestigious Centre for National Research as saying in a radio interview.
"The Roman colony of Carthage was a paradise for homosexuals and they infected many others. The invasion of the Barbarians was seen as punishment for this moral transgression.
"It is well known effeminate men and homosexuals have no place in the kingdom of God.
"Homosexuality was not rife among the Barbarians and this shows God's justice comes throughout history," he stated.
Fellow historians, gay rights groups and politicians expressed their outrage over his claims.
"I have tabled an urgent call for the education minister to intervene," Paola Concia, an MP with the Democratic Left, said.
Italian homosexual groups said the professor's comments were "based on superstition, ridiculous and outrageous" and called on him to resign from his Rome-based post…
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Clever but suttle. I like it!
Also, since homosexuals do not reproduce or Ave natural born children, they have no interest in the future. It’s all about the here and now. For a country to survive and prosper there needs to be future vision and plan. This is sadly starting to seep into heterosexual society also as fewer young people have families.
Homosexuality has destroyed every culture, every civilization, it was allow to flourish in. People just don’t want to hear the truth, that’s all.
Sundance has this
10. Donald Trump
I have read elsewhere that is the case with the burrough councils of NYC. Anyone on FR from the NYC area care to offer their observation?
Homosexual practices were common throughout ancient Greek history. They didn't get in the way of the Greeks being ferocious fighters.
What doomed Rome was complacency and the affluence that led them to indulge all their appetites. They came to rely on foreigners to defend them, and the foreigners couldn't be counted on to do that.
Empires have limited lifespans. It's not easy to tell what were reasons for their decline and what were symptoms of that decline.
Was I supposed to disagree with the historian?
I was just giving my opinion.
Bkmk.
“Also, since homosexuals do not reproduce or have natural born children,
they have no interest in the future. It’s all about the here and now.”
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And with reports of kids showing up with monkeypox, they come with...
#GroomerPayloads
~Easy
As civilizations fall, all kinds of decay set in. Men will not serve in their own country’s defense and outsiders must be hired to do so or offered citizenship if they fight. Morality declines and all manner of sin enters the picture. Ethnic wars arise. Gender confusion erupts. Hatred of their own culture shows up. Many things begin to happen as it rots from the inside out.
This is why I start my day with the Lord’s Prayer posted at Conservative Treehouse...that way, you don’t miss ANY of the excellent articles posted by Sundance.
From the comments at CT: ‘Normal isn’t coming back...Jesus is.’
then there’s no room left for historical analysis. Civil wars, disease, currency debasement, elimination of the middle and farming classes, corruption, etc., all become irrelevant. There’s nothing left to teach.
For me history is studying the nature of man and it isn’t pretty, but it is interesting.
Throw God into history and you see design, not randomness.
Regarding science, I think George Washington Carver said it well:
“When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well George, that’s more nearly your size.’ And he told me.”
― George Washington Carver
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1495762.George_Washington_Carver?page=2
In the late days of the Roman Empire:
“So that is why a large part of the western military was made up of Germans, not many citizens wanted to join because it would have been a downgrade of their standard of living”
Is the US headed to this as the only way it can fulfill the military’s yearly personnel recruitment requirements?
Oustanding person to have the backbone to say so.
Monkeypox isn’t fatal.
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