Sodomy
"You see, the thing about heaven is that heaven is for people who like the sort of things that go on in heaven. Like, well, singing, talking to God, watering pot plants. Whereas Hell, on the other hand, is for people who like the other sorts of things: adultery, pillage, torture--those areas. Give your lands to the Crown, and once you're dead, you will have the time of your life!"
- Edmund Blackadder, Archbishop of Canterbury
On the other hand, there's The Real Meaning of Sodomy (Link from the Inq):“Sodomy” and “sodomite” are some of the ugliest words in the English language. They of course are derived from the Canaanite city of Sodom, whose destruction along with Gomorrah is related in Genesis 19. Most people assume that homosexuality was the grounds for this divine retribution and that this is the reason that gay men have been branded “sodomites.” The word itself does not appear until the 11th Century when Peter Damian first identified the sin of Sodom as male-on-male sex. Damian’s legal conclusion was that such men should be executed primarily because they are incorrigible and therefore unredeemable.
Interesting analysis of christian views on sodomy, including the rather wonderful possible conclusion that "every sexually active human being is a sodomite!"
Well, bugger me, eh?
- Edmund Blackadder, Archbishop of Canterbury
On the other hand, there's The Real Meaning of Sodomy (Link from the Inq):“Sodomy” and “sodomite” are some of the ugliest words in the English language. They of course are derived from the Canaanite city of Sodom, whose destruction along with Gomorrah is related in Genesis 19. Most people assume that homosexuality was the grounds for this divine retribution and that this is the reason that gay men have been branded “sodomites.” The word itself does not appear until the 11th Century when Peter Damian first identified the sin of Sodom as male-on-male sex. Damian’s legal conclusion was that such men should be executed primarily because they are incorrigible and therefore unredeemable.
Interesting analysis of christian views on sodomy, including the rather wonderful possible conclusion that "every sexually active human being is a sodomite!"
Well, bugger me, eh?