People sometimes assume religious traditions’ ideas about gender have always been conservative and unchanging.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    536·
    2 years ago

    A lot of “new” religions like Christianity were all about maximizing reproduction because it’s easiest to indoctrinate children.

    Which leads to those religions calling anything that didn’t result in children a sin.

    According to the same religious laws against LGBT, masterbation and oral/anal are just as bad.

    But they can’t even give up blowjobs and expect everyone else to follow just some parts of someone else religious rules.

    • lamentforicarus@kbin.social
      14·
      2 years ago

      I thought Christianity is like that because it was based on Judaism, and Judaism is like that because the Hebrews kept getting killed. Hard to keep a people if they don’t reproduce and you are constantly enslaved or at war.

      • JAM@reddthat.com
        21·
        2 years ago

        Modern Christianity seems to prohibit abortion. Historical and modern Judaism seems fine with abortion.

        • Ducks@ducks.dev
          28·
          2 years ago

          Judaism puts health and safety of individuals over anything else, including the religion. A doctor can work on the shabbos if someone’s life is in need, a mother can get an abortion if their life is in danger, and a starving man can eat pork if it is the only sustenance they have.

        • jdgordon@aussie.zone
          8·
          2 years ago

          Judaism isn’t really fine with abortion. Just allows it in certain situations, especially if the mothers health in in danger.

        • Lilith02@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 years ago

          The King James Bible actually gives advice on how to abort a baby if it was conceived out of wedlock. Not to mention all the time it said life begins at the first breath. It seems to be more about controlling women than anything else.