Solar Eclipse–New Moon in Scorpio on October 23rd, 2014

What does Jesus say?

Jesus said that *gay men and possibly trans women* were born that way. Of course, this is rough– but the copy & paste text here mildly edited for brevity is interesting.

Matthew 7:1-5 Don’t judge others and you won’t be judged either. The way you judge others is the way you’re going to be judged, and the way you treat others is the way you’re going to be treated. And why do you look at the speck in someone else’s eye, but you don’t consider the log that’s in your own. You want to try and correct the way someone else lives but you don’t do anything about the way you live. You’re a hypocrite.

In ancient Roman Law, it is laid out by the Roman jurist Ulpian in a document known as Lex Julia et Papia, Book 1 (Digest 50.16.128)

“Eunuch is a general designation: the term includes those who are eunuchs by nature, as well as those who are mutilated.”

Ulpian makes a distinction between the non castrated Eunuch and the castrated Eunuch. Whole Eunuchs, who were freemen, unlike mutilated eunuchs, were eligible for marriage and for adopting children.

Josephus, in Jewish Antiquities IV 8,40, indicated that in the case of some, since “it is evident that their soul has become effeminate, they have transfused that effeminacy to their body also.”

John 8:15 You judge after the flesh; I judge no man.

Matthew 19:11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. 19:12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which have been made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

– Jesus

Matthew 25:40. When you have done it for the least among you, you have done it for me.

(Matthew 19:12)
Stephens 1550 Textus Receptus
eisin gar eunoucoi oitineV ek koiliaV mhtroV egennhqhsan outwV kai eisin eunoucoi oitineV eunoucisqhsan upo twn anqrwpwn kai eisin eunoucoi oitineV eunoucisan eautouV dia thn basileian twn ouranwn o dunamenoV cwrein cwreitw

I find this topic interesting– so here’s some basic research. Most Christians seem to ignore their grievous transgressions (see Exodus & Leviticus) but, boy, are they sticklers for their passages concerning the wickedness of homosexuals and queer folk!

(Catholic Saint) Clement of Alexandria warned Christians against the evils of eunuch servants being placed in charge of women, because they will act as pimps for the women, and moreover, “the true eunuch is not unable, but [merely?] unwilling to have sex.”

Important point because many will claim that the first type of eunuch is simply incapable of sexual relations.

Apuleius, student of Plato, tells of a band of “half-men” [semiviri], who call each other “girls” [puellae] and have sex with young men, both as active and as passive partners.

They also acted as cultic priests of the Mother Goddess, a traditional role for eunuchs.

Pliny the Elder assigned eunuchs and hermaphrodites to the “third gender called half-male.”

One having both male and female sexual characteristics.

That’s almost as cool and creative as Roman law:

Ulpian says (D 21.1.6.2): “To me it appears the better view that a eunuch is not diseased or defective, but healthy, just like a man who has one testicle, who is also able to procreate.”

Paulus (D 21.1.7) clarifies: “If, on the other hand, someone is a eunuch in such a way that he is missing a necessary part of his body, even internally, then he is diseased.”

In Physiognomy 2.3, Adamantios said that: “The characteristics of natural eunuchs are worse than those of other men. So most of them are savage, deceitful evildoers, each one more so than the last.

In the same vein, see the statement given by Lucian’s character Diocles in The Eunuch, that a eunuch is “worse off than a castrated priest of Cybele [bakêlos], for the latter had at least known manhood once, but the eunuch had been “cut off” from the very first and was an ambiguous sort of creature like a crow, which cannot be reckoned with either doves or ravens” (Eunuch 8). Likewise, Diocles’s explanation that “a eunuch is neither male nor female, but something composite, hybrid, and monstrous, alien to human nature” (Eunuch 6).

…The tests are never performed, but the reputed eunuch, who now wants to be thought of as a male in order to secure the academic position, sets to having sex with as many women as he can to prove he is not a eunuch. And the narrator of the story prays at the end that his own young son will have the genital skills required to be a philosopher (Eunuch 13).