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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.

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).