CH: No Homophobia in Abraham

Basically, all the Abraham religions can't have any homophobic elements. Period. Possible, or require substantial intervention by alien space bats?
 
Probably requires ASB intervention, IMO.

These religions emerged in tribal, desert regions where the optimum situation for a tribe was to have everyone reproducing and entrenched in a firm, family based structure, through which the religion and its associated laws were passed down. Homosexual behaviour and relationships would be (and were) seen as corrosive to that structure.
 
I think it was mostly about ritual separation, and secondarily, about patrilineage.

At different times proto-Judaism tried to distinguish itself from neighboring religions by abolishing practices it shared with neighboring religions. So, many sex acts which were associated with fertility rituals were condemned... if applied evenly, this might have meant the same conditions for heterosex as for every other kind of sex, but with a het majority, it wasn't applied evenly, and heterosex was accepted while everything else was denounced.
 
Christianity's homophobia comes from comparing the early Christians to the Greeks and Romans who considered it a religious ritual to fuck gay prostitutes - and Jesus imply said that isnt how to get closer to god. Other than that there is no 'homophobia' in new testament Christianity - just some of Leviticus which some argue has been superseceded due to being Old Testamant.
 
Most of the homosphobia is by modern followers if the religion. None of the books say "Homosexuality is bad", its just that some statements could be misinterpreted as such by modern followers.
 
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