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David C.A. Hillman’s Followers (20)
David C.A. Hillman
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Original Sin: Sex, Drugs, and the Church
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published
2012
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3 editions
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Hermaphrodites, Gynomorphs and Jesus: She-Male Gods and the Roots of Christianity
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published
2013
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3 editions
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“In the first book of On Virgins, St. Ambrose spoke of a scriptural and prophetic, virginal Jesus, who had fully functional breasts and made himself the once-male, feminized partner of every believer. In this virgin allegory, St. Ambrose goes so far as to say that Jesus produces believers from his masculine womb, and feeds them with the milk of his breasts. In Ambrose’s words, Jesus was the masculine “rock” that developed nourishing breasts in order to facilitate his role as the breast-feeding mother of the Church. In fact, Ambrose carries the point acerbically by ending his description of the feminized Jesus by claiming that it is perfectly natural that the son of god has his own teats.”
― Original Sin: Sex, Drugs, and the Church
― Original Sin: Sex, Drugs, and the Church
“Tertullian wrote in Apologeticus about the belief that Christians possessed a fiery breath that was able to send demons out of the bodies of the possessed; he says that demons flee the touch of Christians or their breath. This fits the historical context well when we consider that Cyril of Jerusalem, one of the greatest advocates of ritual sodomy, wrote in Procatachesis and Mystagogical Catechesis about the process of breathing or blowing upon young, nude, oiled boys: “Be earnest in submitting to the exorcisms. If you are blown upon and exorcised, the process brings you to salvation.”
― Original Sin: Sex, Drugs, and the Church
― Original Sin: Sex, Drugs, and the Church
“For Ambrose and the Christians of his generation, women were considered to be lower than slaves—something Ambrose claimed—and sexual intercourse with women was believed to be a contaminating process ultimately devised by the devil. Therefore, the prospect of sex with a virginal, sexually hermaphroditic boy was not only in step with the hugely popular cults of Cybele and Dionysus, but in a Christian theological sense it was perfectly pure and spiritually justifiable. In fact, the proposition of sex with the Jesus lady-boy also supported the assertions of generations of monks, priests and Church fathers who upheld the idea that a virginal, sexually undifferentiated, prepubertal child was the ideal sexual partner.”
― Original Sin: Sex, Drugs, and the Church
― Original Sin: Sex, Drugs, and the Church
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