Judaism’s Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality

CERC ^ | DENNIS PRAGER

[NYer]

Dennis Prager is a writer, theologian, and one of America's most respected radio talk show hosts. He has been broadcasting on radio in Los Angeles since 1982 and became nationally syndicated in 1999.

Among his many accomplishments Dennis Prager has engaged in interfaith dialogue with Catholics at the Vatican, Muslims in the Persian Gulf, Hindus in India, and Protestants at Christian seminaries throughout America. For ten years, he conducted a weekly interfaith dialogue on radio with representatives of virtually every religion in the world. New York's Jewish Week described Dennis Prager as "one of the three most interesting minds in American Jewish Life."

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[PGR88]

That is all very nice - but there is NOT one religion in the world that I know of that believes Homosexuality is acceptable, whether on the basis or morality, or on the basis of health.

[AppyPappy]

Maybe God just doesn’t like sin.

[BibChr]

“Theologian”?

Oy!

[gondramB]

>>
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.<<

I value marriage.

And I practice a form of covenant marriage.

But if we talking origins of western civilization its impossible to ignore Greece and Rome and they did not share these principles.

[BibChr]

Now if you could take that idea, replace it with a 10,000 word monologue (half of which is the word “I”), then leave that idea out — you’d have a Prager monologue.

[AppyPappy]

The next article is:

Why God hates oysters.

[RC2]

I don’t know about that one. When they got rid of the 72 virgins, they messed everything up.

[mvpel]

I’m surprised that Prager used slavery as an example of moral regressiveness of Judaism. Just as the Torah was the first time these distinctions in sexual relations were set forth, it was also among the first time that chattel slavery was abolished. The slavery described in the Torah is more generally along the lines of indentured servitude, rather than the modern American conception of slavery.

[Irish Rose]

Rome’s glory was always mixed with brutality. Both Rome and Greece were, in their power, imperialistic. They also practiced infanticide, abandoning unwanted children to die of starvation and exposure. They were powerful and advanced in many things, but no model for morality.

[PatrickF4]

NOT one religion in the world that I know of that believes Homosexuality is acceptable

Perhaps you haven't seen some of the recent statements of Reform Judaism, Unitarianism, or the American Episcopal deviances of the past 30 years.

[gondramB]

>>Rome’s glory was always mixed with brutality. Both Rome and Greece were, in their power, imperialistic. They also practiced infanticide, abandoning unwanted children to die of starvation and exposure. They were powerful and advanced in many things, but no model for morality.<<

I hope you weren’t expecting me to disagree with that.

But the part I commenting was about making Western civilization possible.

>> 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.<<

[VOA]

Good article by Prager; I post it occassionally on appropriate threads
for reference by the forum.
(I do add a “CAUTION: GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS” warning just in case
someone of “tender sensibilities” happens to come across it!)

[Squawk 8888]

there is NOT one religion in the world that I know of that believes Homosexuality is acceptable

That may be true of modern religions, but at the time the Torah was written most of the religions in the region did. The author's thesis is that Judaism was the first modern religion to condemn homosexual behaviour.

[camerakid400]

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[Dinsdale]

The author's thesis is that Judaism was the first modern religion to condemn homosexual behaviour.

Easy to prove when you define Judaism as the first modern religion.

For the record Zorasterism condemns homosexuality and is pro-marriage. The code of Hammurabi predated the ten commandments by centuries.

[Greg F]

LOL . . .

Galatians 5; Romans 7

[Secret Agent Man]

Also include Presbyterian Church-USA, Metropolitan Community Church (ie the ‘gay’ church), United Church of Christ (the ‘other gay church’), and ELCA.