Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven: Let He Who Can Accept This, Accept It
Friday October 10, 2008
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If it's not bizarre enough that traditional, religious patriarchy reduces to little more than "God gave me a penis, so God wants me in charge," there have been some who have argued that in order to find more favor with God, it's necessary to cut off some of those dangling bits. A eunuch still has their penis and thus retains their sign of divine favor, but castration removes the bits which make the penis more useful. So God prefers the penis, but God likes a useless penis even more. Huh?
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Isn’t the Catholic church’s insistence on celibacy, a way of creating Eunuchs for the glory of their God?
Admittedly they have all the “dangly bits” but are admonished to never use them in any way that a normally sexual male would. This is considered an anathema to their “calling”. Of course that attitude also applies to the female “brides of Christ”, and their “bits”, too.
No wonder there are sexual molesters and predators among the piously sexually deprived, of any religion. I seriously doubt that an atheist would become a rapist or child molester.
I think the religious denigration and “sinfulness” of sex and sexuality, plays a part in all sex crimes. Somewhere along the line that part of being human has been horribly repressed, somewhere and some time in those unfortunate individuals lives.