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13/08/2024

My praatjie by Renaissance verlede Sondag.

Vrouwees in historiese perspektief: leer uit die verlede vir vandag.

05/10/2023

28/05/2023

Jokes. 😁

31/05/2022

Could not have said it better. Thank you Mr Borg.

20/05/2022

Yesterday someone asked me about homos*xuality. According to them it was wrong as "the Bible says so".

A few thoughts to consider:

1. The authors of the biblical books had no concept of homos*xuality as a loving, caring relationship between two partners of the same biological s*x. (Something could also be said here about the scientific advances in epigenetics and its link to homos*xuality, but lets keep the focus of this post on biblical ideas).

2. The worldview of biblical antiquity was one of honor versus shame. Boys were raised to actively practice the discourse of dominance and achieve social status. They received tutorship in the "correct" way to talk and carry themselves.

3. Dominance was a sign of honor and any sign of weakness a sign of shame. Women were automatically born into shame and expected to submit to their men (first their father and then their husband).

4. Dominance was practiced in the act of s*x and closely associated with pe*******on. It was an act of dominance to "give" s*x (to pe*****te), but an act of submission to "receive" s*x (be pe*****ted). Women were therefore always pe*****ted, while men did the act of pe*******on.

5. The issue with same-s*x s*xual relationship was therefore not the act of penetrating another man, this was perfectly acceptable. The problem was being pe*****ted by another. As a man, this act lowered your status on the social ladder and showed your submission to another. An unthinkable social move in antiquity.

We should be careful not to take concepts out of biblical literature without understanding the socio-historical context it was written in.

18/05/2022

To understand the origin(s) of Christianity, we need to realize that Christian history writing is a literary phenomenon and cannot be understood as purely factual. As with all history writings, Christian literature is less about recording an accurate remembering of history than it is about an ideological, cultural, and social reflection of a historical event. This reflection might include actual fabrication of “facts” to put across a certain point, placing Christian history writing as mythmaking (mythography) within the theoretical framework of historiography.