As noted in the previous post, Sex and Religion, sexual allusions are intertwined throughout the whole framework of Judeo-Christian religious factions to this day. Words such as sacrament, testament, and seminary, we have seen, are directly traceable to sexual implication.
But in spite of their use of sexual allusions, the old priests and prophets who fathered these cults knew precious little regarding the holy secrets of sex and that proved blissful to them and allowed them to practice all forms of sexual intolerance.
Those much revered priest-mythmakers, for example, had not been informed by God about chromosomes and the chemistry of the brain that determines a person's sexual/physical makeup. Unfortunately, even today the blindly faithful ascribe to principles set down by those unenlightened men and completely ignore what science research has revealed. For example, the effects of sex chromosomes and the chemical sex hormones do not have an undeviating manner of lining up according to one's general anatomical features as religious prejudices choose to pretend.
Furthermore, anatomists know that there are considerable variations in the human brain--its shape, thalamus, structure of the cerebrum, etc.--that are extremely variable and are as individual as fingerprints. This means that mental and/or sensory properties connected with brain structure may align within vastly diverse ranges, and no two persons will ever be exactly the same. So, as far as religious approval of sexual expression goes, one size does NOT fit all.
Within these God-allowable differences there is left open the allowance--the tolerance--for all expressions of life and love. The chromosomes chemically control the total development of the body, brain and intelligence. These do so in a wide range of ways throughout each person's life. Therefore, for political or religious factions to pretend that "the Creator" expects only one narrow expression of life or love to be striven for by all individuals is not viable. In fact, such an unyielding stance amounts to sacrilege.
Religionists should awaken to the holy code that is used in production of all life--the code of the chromosomal and chemical "design" that decrees great diversity in human physical, mental and emotional expression. This seems to be problematic only for those who choose to work themselves into histrionics over anyone too different from themselves.
Perhaps they would do well to remember what science has also shown: the brain needs considerable amount of body to function well, but very little brain is needed for the body to function.
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