Saints, Sexism, & Sexuality: Vapid Vile Vaginas, & Feral Phallic Fallacies
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First, “sexism” stands in for genderism in title. There are also barely enough “V” words to choose from for writing the most cogent of alliterations, but I did my ornery best.
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Second, I want to avoid giving away the plot, or accidentally spout spoilers. As you may have already noticed, I struggle to regulate my thoughts. Actually, I have gotten much better since 3rd grade. That said, sex is hard for many to talk about. Right there; I did it again! Anyway, our prudish sensibilities, and our lack of updated training in the language and understanding of sexuality, let alone gender, is legion, and a lesion on society.
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Mom and dad should teach it. Surely don’t teach such important things in schools. The church should teach it. With the church guiding the lessons, mom and dad should teach it. (Maybe dad shouldn’t teach it?) What if a 3rd grader neighborhood kid, named somewhere else here, said the f’ word fifty times to his friend’s 4 year old brother, then tells little Sammy to say it back to his mom? (Again, maybe a certain dad shouldn’t teach sex to his own kids?) What if the priest or pastor touches little Sammy before he has learned about sex from his mom or dad ? What if? What if? What if….?
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I hope I have made you at least somewhat uncomfortable. Seriously, though, I cannot always be. Going at this in a fully serious way is so 2010s. Serious scholarship is too often faked by apologists to bad measure. We still have beliefs about gender and sex that harm those we see as less than. The church may not be the main culprit. Although, it will seem that way after my jaunt here. The fact is we are surrounded by every kind of mystical belief, that to continue mixing it into sexuality, and gender is profoundly corrupting. There is already too much mystical mystery in those touchstone zones.
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When parents still avoid or shrug off their teaching responsibility, or worse, fill their kids with scary lies, and faith fabrications about a person’s sexual being, we give the pathologically pawing pastor, priest, parent, or any perpetrating pervert free rein, causing everlasting pain to reign. If parents do not do their proper teaching duties, and scrub away any primitive pastoral cooties, a non-regulating neighbor kid can be sent out to scare moms and dads into doing it sooner rather than later.
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As to various genders, no matter what anyone else is saying, there are no new genders. We are just seeing the differences with a wider publicized perspective. Preachers who rail about a society changing in ways god hates, are seeing what their god has been seeing forever. What has happened is their god has made it possible in the 21st century for them to see human beings as they have always been, by faithfully scrubbing the scales and barnacles from their eyes. Please quit mixing god up with your ignorance, and recent, eyes forced-open awareness.
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Your gender is yours; your sexuality is yours.
The sexuality of consenting adults is not yours to demean, or demonize.
Quit throwing stones at others due to unmanageable multiple-genders hate, and the ignorance you derived from ancient “sexperts”, and the ignominy of their egregious, chauvinistic subverts.
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The Sainted Path to Prudish Hypocritical Perdition.
Lastly, why does a f’ing saint have anything to say about sexuality, or gender roles? Okay, St. Augustine did have an out of wedlock child. Remember, don’t hate the sinner, just the sin. He finally housed their son and her, though refused to marry her, and took another mistress. Again, don’t hate the sinner, just the sin. While I could go on about this sinner, I don’t want you to get all riled up and forget; don’t hate the sinner, just the sin.
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But no worries, saintly Augustine’s wanton wiles, and the societal harms to women he fostered, never got him burned at the stake. Yep, women were the real harlots, and deserved their situation. Just ask Joan of Arc.
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Yes, pre-sainthood Auggie was a bad boy. So why is he the expert we should listen to about how to live our lives today?Particularly since none of us made him a saint. I may have, but only if at least one of his two saintly miracles had to do with him getting married, or not taking in one of his two mistresses. Okay, he did finally repent, and raise his son. Sure, his reinvention is good, but many other people have come around like that later in life. Yet, he is someone we should listen to one thousand, five hundred years later, about S.E.X.?!
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“Nothing is so powerful in drawing the spirit of a man downwards as the caresses of a woman.” — St. Augustine, Fifth Century, 401. Take personal responsibility much, Auggie?
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I am not saying there are things, and people from the past that we cannot learn from. Yet, we can be more selective in how we deploy their ideas, and overal personas. Consider today how much of what Freud says about sex is very suspect; yet most of his theories are only 100 years old. Must we continue to publicly caress aggressively Augustine’s phallic symbol of logic, anymore than Freud’s?
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Augustine was arrogant enough to revise the virginity “code”. Even if it was done for good reasons, are we to make his word, or any other man’s word, the last one on all gender “codes” today? Think not.
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Male Pattern Paternalism Lacks Gender Ingenuity.
Sex and gender was understood in somewhat different ways by the harsh bible thumpers of the early centuries. Let us take a look at how things stood back then, and which were dysfunctional.
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The 3rd century started the first christian war on women, and gender role assignment cancel culture lathered with earnestness. Before then, women had more prominence and power in the church, they were priestesses and the like, some even bestowing sacraments. The two Councils of Nicaea, among others, are where some big decisions were made about the christian faith, and women. Emperor Constantine ordered the first council in the year 325. Therefore, and coincidentally, you have a male emperor ordering the cancelling women event, and ending the gender sharing-roles process. And, male priests making the council’s final decisions.
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No, that cannot be true! I am sure women, and other christians had a lot of say in their fate. Christians have always had a fairness doctrine, and a fidelity to truth and kindness. Worshipping of the phallic idol was never allowed! Mysteriously, however, the male decisions did turn out badly for women, (and therefore all other genders). Huh.
“That is just how men were, and thought back then,” says everyone now. Huh.
So those council members were misogynist, sexist, straight(seemingly)-mens-lives-matter-more-than-others, arrogant, sex gluttonous worms back then. Yet now (when we are not back then), some christians still utilize such male garbage, and their dream soaked reasonings to determine what, for whom: women, and other genders? Huh.
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It took the Catholic Church as many as nine hundred years of total confusion, 325 to 1200 A.D. to get their idea about celibacy how it is today. During the initial rumblings in the time of Emperor Constantine, you had (not yet a saint) Augustine with two mistresses, and an out of wedlock, live-in, common-law spouse. From this confused state of adulterous affairs we get many of today’s supposedly christian ideas about genders, and sexuality.
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But how many of these decisions were dependent on Constantine, and other emperors of those centuries? “Do not give to the Emperors what the emperors don’t want?” Or was it only god that didn’t want the women around? So the faith of Jesus birthed the first cancel culture action? Huh.
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Of course, every time period, and civilization had confusing things going on. That is not what I take issue with. The problem is how definitively dogmatic the church became about sexuality, gender roles and identities, by craftily interpreting these “authorities” and old sources, from a time of reigning confusion. The logic has not been improved. The cherrypicking is the same. The righteousness is still as wrongheaded as ever. These bigotry anchors also spawned the current gender-role-identity-non-conforming cancel culture.
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Aquinas, Another Tactless, Fact-less, and Tasteless Acquisition.
Thomas Aquinas who lived until 1274 is another case in point. His logic was very narrow, and he had scant time for real people, real things and real life. Then some troglodyte of ignorant spite, named Robert Loyd Kinney, III, writes a paper in 2014 that regurgitates the stagnant, non-real logic of Aquinas to prove that homosexuality is a disorder like alcoholism and bestiality. The Catholic Church and other christian sects employ these male chauvinist charlatans to promote their baseless sex theories in their hierarchy acclaimed, and down righteous scintillating, Sinsthee Reports.
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Pre-Nicene, the church was calling women who were performing priestly duties and such, wanton, wily, deceitful, and vainglorious. Aquinas called women the devil’s gateway, and said, in man the discretion of reason predominates.
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Looks like the men were not against being vainglorious; only the phallic symbolized priests, and “saints” were to have godlike arrogance, and be able to lust after our souls.
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The discretion of reason is also a convenient thing for dominating vainglorious men to have. Ya think?!
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You can hear all these men screaming to Jesus, let me “sit at your right and the other at your left in your [and our vain] glory,” as the disciples did. — Mark 10:37.
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Aquinas had an utter lack of interest in the natural world. This is also a major problem today for theologians, and their minions when they make determinations about gender and sexuality. While Aquinas may have brought about a little better thinking in some areas, he did little field research on his pontifications, except for his sinning experiences, the bible, and the Greek Philosophers. Of course, Aquinas was not unique in that realm, no one did scientific field research on gender differences or sexuality, so his source selection was very restricted compared to today, where online you can get actual field research many others have done.
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The difference now is the church exploits past tropes to keep believers anchored in those ancient ideas. Then it either has someone, often a quack, write reports for them, as their “field” research, to justify their conclusions. Or the church cherrypicks authentic, peer-reviewed studies that give them hope their arrogant male ideas stand up to scrutiny.
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“While in women there is not sufficient strength of mind to resist concupiscence. (a.k.a. strong sexual desire)” — Thomas Aquinas. Huh. Did Aquinas not know of his sex crazed mistress clinging, out of wedlock child maker, feral buddy, Auggie?
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Maybe saintly Aquinas was just another angry-at-himself-because-the-bible-told-him-to-be Ted Haggard.
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I have read essays where men, and women as well, apologize for the views Aquinas, and other saints, had of women, then accept and honor their other beliefs (many of them infused by a narrow haughty, misogynist arrogance). The writers often make their acquiescence sound reasonable, but…
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This kind of homage, allegiance, and obsequiousness to the old fogies of time, is so yesterday. It also can make you go blind to reason, especially if you keep repeating it. I say, strip out their actual good ideas, give them a footnote if you must (or a swift kick), but move, the hell on!
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More Feral Fatherly Fanatics Found.
There are many other feral phallic fallacy frauds, not quite as well known, who have added to the pantheon of vespers damning the vile vagina, and its vapid vixens. The French gave it a go here:
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“It is a subject of humiliation of all the mothers of the children of Adam to know that while they are with child, they carry with them an infant… who is the enemy of God, the object of his hatred and malediction, and the shrine of the demon.” — St. John Eudes, French (died 1680).
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“Consider that [even] the most lovely woman has come into being from a foul-smelling drop of semen, then consider her midpoint, how she is a container of filth; and after that consider her end, when she will be food for worms.” — Petrus Cantor, French Theologian (died 1197).
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And from the sainted Bishop of Constantinople;
“In his concern for the male sex, the superior may not forget the females, who need greater care precisely because of their ready inclination to sin. In this situation the evil enemy can find many ways to creep in secretly. For the eye of woman touches and disturbs our soul, and not only the eye of the unbridled woman, but that of the decent one as well.” — St. John Chrysostom (died 407).
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Here we have the holy whole trendsetting lot: Wow, the ordained, and fated with phallic symbolism, actually can’t sin. I should have known that. Why did I even worry? There is no way to register this raging phallic influenced rape reasoningexcept in the vein of the vaingloriousness it represents here:
Between 1140 and 1500: “The male clergymen, however, are in no way held to the same rigid standards, and it is these young clergy who are accused of the majority of the rapes, and then let off very easily by the canons. Interestingly, these young clergy are also often charged with performing gang rapes as a rite of passage.” — Zoë Eckman (and Kathryn Gravdal).
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Do the examples above signify the complete catalog of the Catholic and protestant christian canon of carnal claptrappery? No, there is so much more. It also brings into focus the current church sex scandals, and how deeply the priestly, and saintly culture has protected, and covered for its phallic idolatry.
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However, I will not say that having bad thoughts, and ideas, or doing bad things in one area makes everything someone in your sect does, did, says, and writes rancid or incorrect. If Hitler had cured cancer, pretty much all of us would be thankful for the cure. But otherwise for nil, nada, zero, zilch, zippo, nothing else Hitler did, said, or was about. His connection to the cancer cure would be scrubbed off as much as possible.
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The same problem I have with sad Aquinas, and bad Augustine. Yes, they are in no way Hitlers, but raising up any men, especially white men, lacking so much awareness, to such high levels of respect, beyond their surviving value and usefulness, has done much to push women, other genders, and races, out of the way. Mostly from hogging the stage with their loud, often one-sided uninformed ideas of constant phallic cymbal clanging, and clamoring.
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These Pennsylvania sisters likely understand how an ancient, male dominated message, and hierarchy creates passions of godlike superiority, and impunity, as well as encourages sex-abuse gluttony.
Father Augustine* G. died in 1993 at age 72 while awaiting trial after police searched his home, and found little girls’ underwear, vials of urine, and photos of naked children, including C.F., the youngest of the five siblings: The Philadelphia Inquirer. (*Yes, his name is also Augustine.)
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The Dominion of Spirituality, and Godlike Sex.
Reluctantly, I will stick with the straight man side of my schtick in this section. History shows us no one had a very good grip on sexuality or gender. We can also see that most of written history, before 1950, had a male author. From everything we know about human behavior, and biases, these are disturbing data sets for those not male, or persons that did not present, or represent their dogmatically and ignorantly assigned gender role, or identity of the time their history was written. A history that still oppresses.
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Did the christian church or any church do all the damage due to its general spiritual ideas, or merely because it was religious? No. However, once spirituality is the basis for something we actually know little about, the trajectory is likely to be damaging. While this concern could be injected into most any subject, sexuality is mostly associated with sin in religious circles. Jesus had to be from a virgin birth. And I wasn’t even from a virgin birth! Sorry, back to straight man schtick.
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Is spirituality the best way to understand and deal with anything sexual? For example, if someone is supposedly addictedto masturbating. Since Jesus probably did not masturbate, we should then seek any valid clues from Aquinas or Auggie?They had misogynist tendencies at the very least, from their viewing women as vapid vixens, with their vile vaginas.Auggie had many women so maybe masturbating never came to mind. Aquinas if not gay, only had those self pleasuring penances, via his all day hair-shirt rubbing, if women disturbed him as much as it seems.
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We can even consider the issue of Same Sex Attraction Disorder devolved by Kinney the quack, the inane inquisitor noted above, and its corrective treatment, conversion therapy. Fear and faith go together, sometimes for good reasons. Sexuality and gender roles are different because the fear is employed to harm other people who have been determined defective by (supposedly) straight men. Yet we still do not understand sexuality, or gender, and have not really tried without it wrapped in faith traditions espoused by phallic idolaters.
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What is sexually deviant? What gender norms, or identities are correct? Who gets to determine those, or translate them? How many words, or sentences must be found in religious texts that god supposedly influenced, or directly said, to make something wrong or right? Are we merely counting the sexless or sexy angels on the head of a pin? Again, I am not attacking faith, well, that is not true. I am attacking the faithful-of-it that attack others due to their unrepentant bigotry, or willful, damning ignorance. Spirituality and faith is harmful when basing its actions on ancient fears, and uses its bully pulpit, to literally bully and hate on those who are not hurting them.
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The reason the U.S. has separation of church and state has to do with these principles. Of course, I cannot stop your church from harming others. I was not able to stop our former church from harming my wife and our daughters. We got excommunicated, from the church where our children, my wife, and her father were baptized as babies. All because we voted against hate, bigotry, and discrimination of human beings considered the wrong kind by ancient fallible male translators.
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That said, besides asking god to smote you, I will say this: Keep your f’ing arrogant, asinine beliefs, god[straight-male]like sexual excursions, and gender identity hate away from my family, and the other families and children, your belligerently ignorant kind have been damaging for the last two millennia. That is where my lack of seriousness ends.
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The Priestly Protrusion Conclusion.
The apologist will say there is much more to these saintly men than their sexuality, and their rude testosterone imbued views on sexuality and gender. That we must also know them through their other thoughts to discover their better angels. What they are saying is these mortal men are more than their failings. Or more awkwardly, love the sinner not the sin.
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Yet there seems to be a loss of translation, and much disingenuousness, when that same axiom is associated with other genders, and their supposed impure sexuality. What we continue to hear from the apologist and supposedly saintly is “straight men are just so much more than their phallic idolatry, and all others who worship their respective idols are not.”
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Epilogued.
I have been reading quantum physicist, Leonard Susskind’s book, The Black Hole War. He tells a story about meeting a giant in the field of quantum physics, John Wheeler, in the early 1960s. Susskind had not entered college yet, and worked as a plumber. As he was heading off to meet Wheeler at Princeton, a friend that knew Wheeler said he should change clothes. He wore the plumber uniform of the time, looking like the Dutch Boy paint kid.
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Wheeler was a strait-laced, conservative, Republican, who looked like he ran a Fortune 500 company, not the stereotypical rumpled professor. Susskind’s white overalls would not be a good first impression. Now why did a smart young adult that knew as much as any person of his age about physics need to dress to impress? I know why this generally is the case. But Susskind very likely could not have shown up as a woman, another gender or race, “dressed well” or not.
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Why did (white) men in Wheeler’s position, have the power to change how a person dresses, or presents themselves merely because their brain is full of smarty science dust? He should not automatically get that level of respect. The same could have been said of his phallic symbol. Why did that pale appendage provide him, or his colleagues of the time, with the capacity to look down on women, other genders and races, and not accept them as colleagues or students?
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My beef is not with Wheeler, or wearing nice clothes to an interview, but the thinking that we must laud him or others as great, giving them more space mostly due to having been born with an automatic, erectable phallus, is disgusting, and fosters ugly (usually white) male superiority.
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My father was an automotive engineer at Bendix, who worked with the Big Three. When I was a 20-something, he saw me pour salt on my food while at a restaurant. He said, “Son, if I was eating with a potential employer, or client who was an engineer, and I put salt on my food before tasting it, they might end the interview right there.” I guess that was a flagrant act of auto-reflex-cuisine engineering malfeasance.
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Anyway, me, being the not-wound-tight, creative type, picked up the salt shaker again, before taking my first bite, looked dad in the eyes, and with a proper smile dumped on more. That’s because no one will change me, or will have sway over me, due to some narrow ideas they have engineered, or are grounded in their personality, or experience.
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I told our two daughters that story. I said, they can choose whichever one of those perspectives they feel will give their life the truest, and deepest meaning. They said, “Whatever dad. Old men like you, and granddad have the lamest ideas. We do our own thing.”
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Yessiree! Those are two women that Augustine, Aquinas, Eudes, Cantor, Chrysostom, and any other arrogant phallic frauds would have quickly shrunk away from.
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Of course, I had little to do with their force of nature frame of mind; both my wife, and I have mothers that lived, and worked on farms. Basically, you never ever fraud with the Kentucky Irish hillbilly female, or a Minnesota Swiss mother farmer. Ergo my warning: The horse’s ass, and bully, phallic cymbals may continue to make their obnoxious anointed noises, but when a spring thaw fraud is in the farmyard air as the arrogant heir apparent, can I say, soon either a gelding, or a steer? Domineering damnation dandies, watch ouch!
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