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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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Maybe God just doesn’t like sin.
“Theologian”?
Oy!
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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.
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.
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!)
Wonderful article. I’m keeping it for future discussions with people who want to “normalize” homosexuality. Thanks for posting it.
Blessings on you and yours for this post !shalom b'shem Yah'shua
It’s too bad that Dennis gives such weight to Freud, who’s work was fraudulant, self-serving, and sick.
I agree with much of what Prager says, but clearly he doesn’t understand medieval France:
“In medieval France, when men stressed male-male love, it “implied a corresponding lack of interest in women. In the Song of Roland, a French mini-epic given its final form in the late eleventh or twelfth century, women appear only as shadowy marginal figures: “The deepest signs of affection in the poem, as well as in similar ones appear in the love of man for man...”
The Song of Roland is a military epic, a tragedy wrapped in bravery. In all ancient and medieval military epics there were expressions of love - that’s friendship, people - between men. There were no women in the armies after all! The love between male characters in the Song of Roland was not homosexual, sexual, or even “homo-erotic”. It was simply friendship. It was no more sexual than the love between Frodo and Sam in the Lord of the Rings (and homosexuals are trying to claim that was sexual too!).
Too hardest addictions to control
SEX
FOOD
Alcohol—tobacco—Others drugs addictions can be overcome easier than SEX and FOOD addictions because the latter two are normal appetites and always there while the former fade after ceasing the intake
...It is Judaism's sexual morality, not homosexuality, that historically has been deviant.
Let me pause at this point.
You'd think that he could express himself in such a way so that it didn't sound like he was speaking for homosexuals. I wouldn't be surprised if they were able to use his remarks in order to bolster their own arguments.
Also, slight correction, Ishtar was a goddess, not a god.
Now back to the article.
Good fact. I did enjoy the article. It seems to me to be written as a non-believer would write: for example he argues that Judaism desexualized God . . . rather than in the nature of God himself. I wonder whether Prager's faith is rooted in a belief in God or if it is rooted in the social benefits of his Jewish heritage . . .
Again, he is making the other side's points for them -- because after reading this, they will say, So why are people so concerned with other people's gender preferences?
Judaism’s Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality...
Leviticus 18:22
“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.”
I'm not a biblical scholar, but I thought there was some type of reference to female homosexuality. Perhaps not in such explicit terms as those of male homosexuality.
Thanks, NYer. Great post!
“Why Judaism . . . Rejected Homosexuality”
Just a wild guess, but I would think that the treatment of Sodom and Gomorrah would have gotten Lot’s attention, and the rest is history.
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