Originally Posted by
siamcat 
Personally, I hate (and I don't think hate is too strong a word for this) christianity for the fact that it stunted human progression for over a thousand years. Anyone who has studied Greek or Roman history will see where I'm coming from, christianity plunged us completely into a dark age until the renaissance, we lost so so much literature, spiritual and social development, even infrastructure and technology due to the control structures set up after the council of Nicea.
I don't disagree with anything you said, except that "Christianity plunged us" into the dark ages. Famine did that, the church just took advantage of the situation, and probably with good intent. It's not the intent of religious people that bothers me, so far as most religion goes, but it is the result: Rarely good and mostly oppressive.
*interesting side note on god's 'stance' on sexuality. There are several references tabooing man on man sexuality, but not one denying woman on woman sexuality, in fact, in certain passages it seems to be encouraged.
Which could be why there's always a girl-on-girl in any mainstream porn, and even prime time TV, but you'd never see male-on-male porn unless you were looking specifically for that. So, the Nicean creed helped design porn - LOL.
I don't understand the aversion. The Boy Scouts have battled for years (and been battered some) over the whole homosexual thing. The Girl Scouts never saw need to address it at all. All that comes from a patriarchcal place, I suspect, and so your post suggests. Another good reason to ban Abrahamic religions from the planet.
