Much too early for someone who has not been made to think in these terms for so very long, but just posted these thoughts in response to someones not unfriendly explanation of going after strange flesh. -------------------------- Another way to read strange would be through the influence of Latin and French languages (with a smidgen of Greek thrown in later) via royal courts and churches on the Continent upon the royal courts and Protestant movements/churches of England and Scotland and their influence in the English translations of Christian scriptures: (Lt) alienigena/hospes -- stranger/foreigner/alien (Fr) étranger/aliéné -- stranger/foreigner/alien Taking this tack points up the lack of welcome/hospitality [hospitalitas/hospitalité] extended the foreign [hospes/étranger] messengers/visitors/angels regardless of whether they were animal, vegetable, mineral, human, or even extraterrestrial. And that is the specifically addressed sin of Sodom. (Angels in contemporary and modern English being related to the French ange and Latin angelus which are similarly related to the Greek: άγγελος {ángelos}). At the foundational level those strangers/strange flesh were aliens/foreigners. We still hear quite a bit of vitriol being slung even now around and at aliens, dont we? One could even argue that we [GLBT folks] are the current aliens being attacked by the blinded Sodomites of Christianity. And with that . . . I need another pot of coffee! Because I really had not meant to venture off into liberation theology at all much less this early in the morning. LOL.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:45:05 +0000
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