The sum of all knowledge and the sorry state of the web

Re:The sum of all knowledge and the sorry state of the web by trasz on Friday September 23, 2022 @07:49AM (#32950619)

Homophobia generally spread throughout the world with Christianity, carried by colonialism. Again, China is a good example. And fixing homophobia in western societies strongly corresponds to decreasing importance of religion.

It’s not limited to homophobia of course - pretty much every single Catholic claim about human sexuality is antiscientific bull - but I think homophobia is a good enough example of a harmful, false belief that got more popular than anything post-internet.

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Re:The sum of all knowledge and the sorry state of the web by tgv on Friday September 23, 2022 @10:46AM (#32952644)

For one thing, you may be underselling the homophobia in Islam a bit. And there's Tacitus, who says that the Germans punished homosexuals. That's a bit before the Christians, and it comes from someone from a culture not opposed to the practice.

Second, I find it hard to believe that the Chinese were turned homophobic, and remained so, by a few Christians despite millenia of tolerance, when the vast majority of the country isn't even Christian. It smells like bad historicism.

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Re:The sum of all knowledge and the sorry state of the web by rightbyte on Friday September 23, 2022 @02:23PM (#32955410)

I guess his take on germanic tribes might have been accurate. The first recorded "law" in the Nordics is monetarily punnishment for accusing someone of being homosexual. (Quoted from distant memory, don't take my word for it).

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