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Was Jesus Gay? And Other Offbeat Theories About Him

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Frideswide.
 
Doing all right, thks Frideswide for the asking!

I think Frideswide was wondering why you quoted her earlier post without adding anything of your own. :dunno:
 
How about Jesus being bi? Seems more in keeping with his preachings of generosity.
He might have even been celibate .. but also enjoyed 'cracking one off' occasionally when no one was watching .. I'm not here to judge .. what he did in his own time so long as it's harming no one else is no one else's business frankly .. ffs .. he had a lot on his plate at the time what with being the saviour of humanity ..
 
He might have even been celibate .. but also enjoyed 'cracking one off' occasionally when no one was watching .. I'm not here to judge .. what he did in his own time so long as it's harming no one else is no one else's business frankly .. ffs .. he had a lot on his plate at the time what with being the saviour of humanity ..

I wasn't being entirely facetious, homosexual relationships as well as heterosexual ones, or even "quickies", may not have been as frowned upon back there and then as they were centuries later. I daresay (or hope) we're more accepting now, though not everywhere. A typical bloke from Jerusalem may have been used to experimentation.
 
He might have even been celibate .. but also enjoyed 'cracking one off' occasionally when no one was watching .. I'm not here to judge .. what he did in his own time so long as it's harming no one else is no one else's business frankly .. ffs .. he had a lot on his plate at the time what with being the saviour of humanity ..

I've just got this image of Jesus up in heaven quietly thinking to himself "At last somebody understands what I went through..."

God: FFS Jesus put it away.
 
I've just got this image of Jesus up in heaven quietly thinking to himself "At last somebody understands what I went through..."

God: FFS Jesus put it away.
.... and then his Dad, God, walks in and catches him at it .. just at the vinegar strokes moment .. at the jester's shoes .. his Dad NF .. his DAD! ..
 
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Yeah but he's all-seeing anyway so by that logic he's always watching Jesus have a wank.

Jesus: Dad ffs!
.. at least it wasn't his Mum mate ..

.. one time, when I was only about 13 or something, I woke up with a morning stiffy .. a perfectly natural occurrence for young men as we all know .. but then my Sister and Mum marched into my bedroom before I'd had chance to even wake up properly, my Mum opened my bedroom curtains and my Sister whipped away my duvet at the exact same time shouting 'WAKEY WAKEY!!" .. my Mum assessed the situation quickly and told my Sister to leave the room .. that was horrifying .. :oops:
 
.. at least it wasn't his Mum mate ..

.. one time, when I was only about 13 or something, I woke up with a morning stiffy .. a perfectly natural occurrence for young men as we all know .. but then my Sister and Mum marched into my bedroom before I'd had chance to even wake up properly, my Mum opened my bedroom curtains and my Sister whipped away my duvet at the exact same time shouting 'WAKEY WAKEY!!" .. my Mum assessed the situation quickly and told my Sister to leave the room .. that was horrifying .. :oops:


You know men get erections when they are dreaming? https://theconversation.com/health-check-why-men-wake-up-with-erections-68419
 
Barry Cryer line:
"My friend is in hospital having contracted 80% burns to his body.
The doctors are giving him 4 viagra tablets a day. I asked if it helps him heal.
No, they said, but it keeps the bedding off his skin."

Anyway, back to odd theories about Jesus.
 
Before I go any further, none of the following is intended to be judgemental or discriminatory against Christians or homosexuals. I am trying to analyse a question here, and when I use labels, it is only for the purpose of drawing distinctions in this single post.

Was Jesus gay?

In order to answer this, we need to define two terms: "Jesus" and "gay".

We could define Jesus as:
  1. Historical Jesus: the man who actually existed. A person, known as Jesus/Jesu/Joshua/Yeshua (etc.) who lived approximately 4BC to 30AD, who became a preacher, and who was crucified.
  2. Legendary Jesus: a real person plus some stories and details that have attached to him in the centuries since. All of (1) above, but whose biography only loosely matches that given in the gospels. (Compare this with the way that Little John, Maid Marion, etc. accrued to the Robin Hood story.)
  3. Official Jesus: the one the gospel writers wanted us to believe in. The character as described in the gospels, based on a real person, but with the caveat that many of the stories and sayings attributed to him were deliberately fabricated by the writers to further their own agendas. (Compare this with Plato's version of Socrates, or Shakespeare's version of Richard III.)
  4. Divine Jesus: the literal son of God, who worked actual miracles, and rose from the dead etc.
(I suspect most of us broadly accept 1, and accept 2 to a greater or lesser degree. Most will at least accept that 3 is a consideration. There is substantial disagreement about 4, which we won't explore here!)

This is important because:
  • A real historical person may or may not have engaged in homosexual activity, and this may or may not be susceptible to proof.
  • A figure who has been presented to us by someone with an agenda, may be presented with the intention of promoting one point of view or another. The historical Jesus' sexuality may have been misrepresented or suppressed by the gospel writers for whatever reason suited their purposes.
  • If Jesus really were the son of God, then if he was homosexual, that would directly contradict the views and laws attributed to God in the Old Testament. However, this is not susceptible to proof or disproof.
So in short, are we taking about the historical, legendary, official or divine version of Jesus?


What about "gay"?
I would start by saying that no one was "gay" before the late 19th century when the term began to be used.

Solely for the purpose of analysing this question, I think there is a useful distinction between:
  • Homosexuals People who prefer homosexual sex and intimate relationships to heterosexual sex and intimate relationships, whether or not they act on these preferences.
  • Gays. Homosexuals who consider themselves to be part of a distinct community and culture with other homosexuals. Part of the "gay scene".
  • People who engage in homosexual activity for other reasons. This may be cultural reasons (the ancient Greek upper classes), power transactions (prison rape), experimentation (boarding school dormitories), lack of heterosexual opportunities (sailors on long voyages).
"Gay" in this sense is a social construct. The gay scene started as an underground culture when homosexuality was illegal, and then became associated with protesting and campaigning for the freedom to be openly homosexual, and then became just a scene: a subculture that in the main happily coexists alongside mainstream culture. Without the history of criminalisation, discrimination against homosexuals, and the later relaxing of the law and wider social acceptance of homosexual relationships, there would have been no "gay scene".

What we know as the gay subculture did not exist in Jesus' time, so in this sense he cannot have been gay.

The historical Jesus may or may not have been homosexual, but he is not presented as such in the legendary or official versions.

Of course, it is possible that in Jesus' time there was some form of underground subculture for homosexuals, but if so it would have been different from the one we know as "gay".

To my mind, it is counterproductive for any community or pressure group to try to adopt historical figures to promote their own agendas. I do not agree with "Jesus was gay" any more than I agree that "Jane Austen was a feminist," or that "Othello was a victim of institutionalised racism." or "Holmes and Watson (or Laurel and Hardy's onscreen characters) were subtextually homosexual" or any of a hundred other examples. They were then, we are now.
 
What about his supposed tour of the Americas, as claimed by the mormons. Anything to back that up?
 
Jesus hung around with twelve other blokes, either he was starting a football team or he was gay.
 
Jesus.."Hey dad what we doing for Easter?"

God.. "Well son we are going to Calvary, and there is something I have to tell you"
 
Jesus.."Hey dad what we doing for Easter?"

God.. "Well son we are going to Calvary, and there is something I have to tell you"

I went to a Toby Calvary, it was dreadful. I'd rather be crucified.
 
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