NorthernWind
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Monkmaxxing is a cope. If you don't like female body, you're probably gay.
Here's two harsh criticisms of monastic life. First is from a Roman Imperial poet, Rutilius Namatianus ( 'A Voyage Home to Gaul' ) who lived in V century.
"As we advance at sea, Capraria now rears itself - an ill-kept isle full of men who shun the light. Their own name for themselves is a Greek one, "monachoi" ( monks )
, because they wish to dwell alone with none to see. They fear Fortune's boons, as they dread her outrages: would anyone to escape misery, live of his own choice in misery? What silly fanaticism of a distorted brain is it to be unable to endure even blessings because of your terror of ills? Whether they are like prisoners who demand the appropriate penalties for their deeds, or whether their melancholy hearts are swollen with black bile, it was even so that Homer assigned the ailment of excessive bile as cause of Bellerophon's troubled soul; for it was after the wounds of a cruel sorrow that men say the stricken youth conceived his loathing for human kind."
Second is a book of a Russian philosopher Vasily Rozanov "People of the Moonlight" 1911.
"The book is an unrestrained invective against Christianity, especially its monastic tradition. "The legacy and stimulus of monasticism", wrote Rozanov in a polemial footnote, is the "destruction of the whole human race". He began his history of monasticism by claiming that it originated in the Phoenician cults of Moloch, to whom children were sacrificed, and of the virginal warrior-goddess Astarte. According to Rozanov, the priests of Moloch and Astarte castrated themselves. The association of Christian monastic celibacy and self-castration which, of course, goes against nature, is an obsessive retrain in People of the Moonlight, as it had been at the Religious-Philosophical Meeting. Besides the Phoenician cults, the book's genealogy of monasticism includes Plato's ephebe Phaedrus, who, claimed Rozanov, found the female body despicable, revealing his love of men...The most inflammatory aspect of People of the Moonlight was its inscription of monasticism into a self-castrating and homoerotic model of religion. Describing the sexual identity of Christian monks, Rozanov used interchangeably the terms "third sex", "male-female", "urning", and "spiritual sodomite". He compared the teachings of the church on celibacy to "arsenic with sugar", sweet on the surface but poisonous in essence."
Here's two harsh criticisms of monastic life. First is from a Roman Imperial poet, Rutilius Namatianus ( 'A Voyage Home to Gaul' ) who lived in V century.
"As we advance at sea, Capraria now rears itself - an ill-kept isle full of men who shun the light. Their own name for themselves is a Greek one, "monachoi" ( monks )
, because they wish to dwell alone with none to see. They fear Fortune's boons, as they dread her outrages: would anyone to escape misery, live of his own choice in misery? What silly fanaticism of a distorted brain is it to be unable to endure even blessings because of your terror of ills? Whether they are like prisoners who demand the appropriate penalties for their deeds, or whether their melancholy hearts are swollen with black bile, it was even so that Homer assigned the ailment of excessive bile as cause of Bellerophon's troubled soul; for it was after the wounds of a cruel sorrow that men say the stricken youth conceived his loathing for human kind."
Second is a book of a Russian philosopher Vasily Rozanov "People of the Moonlight" 1911.
"The book is an unrestrained invective against Christianity, especially its monastic tradition. "The legacy and stimulus of monasticism", wrote Rozanov in a polemial footnote, is the "destruction of the whole human race". He began his history of monasticism by claiming that it originated in the Phoenician cults of Moloch, to whom children were sacrificed, and of the virginal warrior-goddess Astarte. According to Rozanov, the priests of Moloch and Astarte castrated themselves. The association of Christian monastic celibacy and self-castration which, of course, goes against nature, is an obsessive retrain in People of the Moonlight, as it had been at the Religious-Philosophical Meeting. Besides the Phoenician cults, the book's genealogy of monasticism includes Plato's ephebe Phaedrus, who, claimed Rozanov, found the female body despicable, revealing his love of men...The most inflammatory aspect of People of the Moonlight was its inscription of monasticism into a self-castrating and homoerotic model of religion. Describing the sexual identity of Christian monks, Rozanov used interchangeably the terms "third sex", "male-female", "urning", and "spiritual sodomite". He compared the teachings of the church on celibacy to "arsenic with sugar", sweet on the surface but poisonous in essence."
