Robert Porter

“The Catholic Church has remained very much the same for two thousand years. The problem of child rape may never be rooted out of the Church, because it is integral to the very foundations of Christianity.”
― David C.A. Hillman, 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.”
― David C.A. Hillman, Original Sin: Sex, Drugs, and the Church

“Women’s Benevolence Before Christian monks began teaching that women were cursed, the Greco-Roman world worshipped the benevolent power of the feminine voice. The Greeks and Romans taught that women were politically relevant; they believed that women possessed a unique, divinely inspired ability to create beauty. They believed the cosmos had endowed women with gifts that were entirely absent in their male counterparts. The pre-Christian Mediterranean world believed the feminine voice was uniquely powerful—they believed it was a reflection of the highest creative force of the universe. In the pagan mind, the creator was not a man, but a child-nourishing woman.”
― David C.A. Hillman, Original Sin: Sex, Drugs, and the Church

“A description of a man-god savior with female reproductive organs and breasts may be disturbing to a modern audience, but the pagan world, which at the time was still a large percentage of the population, would have quickly recognized their own hermaphroditic, nurturing divinities in the person of Jesus the virginal lady-boy.”
― David C.A. Hillman, Original Sin: Sex, Drugs, and the Church