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So the broad scholarly consensus in the fields of history, anthropology, religious studies, etc, is that much of the globalized anti-LGBT sentiment we see today was imported, particularly through Christian colonialism and the spread of Abrahamic religious frameworks.

Most other religious frameworks did not originally carry this level of anti-LGBT sentiment. There is no doctrinal reason among them, it is primarily cultural influence stemming from colonialism.

I'm curious among the affirming crowd here, how do you all rationalize or conceptualize the role of Christianity here? Is it not concerning for you guys the role this religion has had in the oppression of large swaths of the population?

There are a number of books and papers that go deep into this topic:

  • Kapya Kaoma - Christianity, Globalization, and Protective Homophobia: Democratic Contestation of Sexuality in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Robert Aldrich - Colonialism and Homosexuality

  • Louis-Georges Tin - The Dictionary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience

  • Phillip M. Ayoub - The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights: How Transnational Conservative Networks Target Sexual and Gender Minorities

 

God and Christ love all their children regardless of Race, gender, sexuality, etc

Have a happy and safe pride month everyone!

 

As the title says, I'm looking for some potential mods to help run this community.

If you are interested, then please drop a comment to this post explaining why you believe that you would be a good fit for mod.

 

Muslim women are only allowed to expose their face and hands according to the traditional understanding, and even the face is a lot according to some who order women to cover the cover the face as well. Many sheikhs become angry if a few strand of hair get exposed.

But Christian women don't have such strict, rigid dress code for them, as you can see in the right picture, dress like this where they don't cover their arms, legs, head, neck would be accepted as modest by their Churches. People on this subreddit won't find any immodesty in them either, but a lot of Mainstream Muslims surely do.

What is the reason?

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