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By craving the security of the medieval tradition and ignoring that of the Renaissance, we keep alive a belief system best illustrated in a 1473 painting. "The Martydom of Saint Agatha" pictures men mutilating the breasts of a female in the belief that the female is a sexual temptation and must be crushed.

LOL! She's been channeling Freud a little too much. St. Agatha was tortured for being a Christian, and one of her punishments was having her breasts cut off. If she had did a little investigation, she would have learned about that easily.

"LOL! She's been channeling Freud a little too much. St. Agatha was tortured for being a Christian, and one of her punishments was having her breasts cut off. If she had did a little investigation, she would have learned about that easily."

I agree with you completely here. I am sure she knows about her being a Saint and that she died for the faith. I am sure she knows the mutilation was done by anti-Christians because St. Agatha was Christian. But, she chooses to interpret it as "men mutilating the breasts of a female in the belief that the female is a sexual temptation and must be crushed."

This is Freud and intense deadly-feminism and insecurity. She can't help but get a cheap shot in against the Catholic Church and men. I'll pray that she is able to get over the abuse that must have caused her to be this sad. If she hasn't been abused, then she just needs to work on her misplaced anger.

But, the point of my posting the article was to help us come to grips with the fact that the human body naked in public is not always bad and that Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body is worth more than a look. See Christopher West's ToB Website.