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Thread #127498 Message #2847617
Posted By: Little Hawk
23-Feb-10 - 10:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: the sayings of elton john
Subject: RE: BS: the sayings of elton john
You're right that Paul is homophobic too. That could be driven by his own guilt!!! ;-) You see, he was actually homosexual...but hiding in the closet. This explains both his blatant misogyny AND his apparent homophobia...
And if you take any of the above very seriously, you will be going as far astray as if you imagine that I think misogyny and homosexuality are obvious partners. I don't. I'm merely engaging in a little gentle humorous satire of Elton John's public musings about Jesus, that's all.
I have known one gay men who was quite obviously misogynistic...and it seemed to be based on the fact that he hated his mother...rather than that he was gay...but that's just one man. I don't take it as indicating anything about an entire demographic of people. It was his own individual issue, that's all.
Paul's writings contain some very odd stuff about both men and women...and that leads me to think Paul may have been a rather odd fellow. His hostility toward homosexuals, however, was not odd at all in the community of his time, since there were already very strong religious restrictions against men engaging in homosexual activity in the traditional Jewish community that the early Christians came out of. It would have been "normal" at that time among Jews and many other people in that region to express a horror of homosexuality in their religious writings. Therefore Paul would not have been saying anything very unusual in that respect if he followed along the same line, would he? For that matter, his chauvinist opinions about women probably weren't unusual at the time either...
Hell, maybe he was just an ordinary guy of his time! ;-)
Anyway, some of what he had to say gives me the creeps. I have to admit, though, that he wrote some pretty inspired stuff here and there too. Interesting character.