Lakshmana Temple: Explicit Sexual Sculptures.
Your assertion that:
“So-called modern society is increasingly providing the unwanted stimulus for people to become homosexuals” is incongruous with”Religious leaders are teaching religiosity rather than real religion, (they) are simply misleading people, they are not teaching the truth”.
Photograph © above, by courtesy of Asian Historical Architecture.
I suggest that you burrow deeper into the source of your own pseudo-religion (Butlerism) for the “truth” by deliberating on the southern walls of the Hindu Lakshmana Temple (930-950 AD) listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site, dedicated to Lord Vishnu, in the Khajuraho village (385 miles (620 kilometres) southeast of Delhi)), which has explicit sexual sculptures depicting males engaging in anal intercourse, fellatio, and zooerasty. Would you consider those images as pornographic, and as “unwanted stimulus for people to become homosexuals”,’zoophiles’, et cetera? Juxtaposing your “so-called modern society …” etc., argument, with those sculptures; and their supposed stimulus, would that, in your opinion, influence “people to become homosexuals”? If you consider your argument correct, why hasn’t the entire population on the Indian subcontinent succumbed to ‘homosexuality’? Wouldn’t a 1058-year period been sufficient to substantiate your argument? And why are you, yourself “… not teaching the [whole] truth”; regarding these facts to your readership and followers?
Hinduism’s Devadasi Sustem of Religious Prostitution.
Whilst you pontificate on: Christian “Religious leaders … misleading people … (and)not teaching the truth” (sic.), you remain silent regarding the Devadasi (a ‘slave of a deity’ (q.v.) e.g., Shiva, Vishnu, et al.)). Devadasi is a religious Hindu practise of child prostitution. The Indian government is an active member of the United Nations (U.N.). It played a key role in drafting the Universal Declaration on Human Rights in 1948 (Dr. Hansa Mehta), and amongst other member nations, are committed to eradicate trafficking and sexual exploitation of children.
The central and state governments received a Public Interest Litigation, from the Supreme Court, New Delhi, in 1990; to establish advisory bodies to recommend procedures to obliterate this and other forms of child prostitution. Notwithstanding, government efforts, to eradicate the devadasi form of child exploitation, this tradition, is still prevalent in many parts of India today. The rituals of Jogin, and Basavi initiation rituals of eleven year old (qq.v.) children, particularly from the lower socio-economic sectors; continue to this day.
This tradition is on the public record, vid Robert A. Morey, Ph. D., as continuing in Maharashtra where no figures were provided. However, data were presented by two of the southern states, namely Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, for devadasi in their cities: 16,624 and 22,941 respectively (vid., Government of India Ministry of Human Resource Development Department of Education Child Prostitution (9.51)). Many of the children finish up by moving to the west coast city Mumbai (formerly Bombay), and Pune in western India; where they work as prostitutes. These are the facts of which you chose to remain silent.
~ CONCLUSION ~
Homosexuals, and lesbians, are part of us. John Donne wasn’t far from the mark in saying:
“No man is an island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main …”
Devotions upon Emergent
Occasions’Meditation XVII’.
Many people experience sense of loneliness, and a strong emotional longing for a loyal and stable friendship; notwithstanding nationality, colour, culture, or sexual orientation. Everyone deserves unconditional acceptance, love and effective support, with an attitude of optimism, rather than condemnatory attitudes.
Rev. Father A. Maximiadis.
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