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In reply to the discussion: Is the David porn? Come see, Italians tell Florida parents [View all]NullTuples
(6,017 posts)48. I mean, angels were neither male nor female.
Male grammar was typically used in Hebrew & Greek, but it was arguably the same as using "man" to represent all of humanity (ie sexist). But the art is a mix, depending on who created it and what the intended role of the angel was to be - again, it was highly sexist.
According to the Bible and later Church Canon, Angels were messengers who were not physical and certainly not biologically sexual beings; they were said to take human form the way we might choose an outfit for the day. That's why in stories such as Job at Sodom*, they were said to be "disguised" as two very handsome men.
*I choose to use the "Darmok & Jalad at Tanagra" structure for such citations
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Is the David porn? Come see, Italians tell Florida parents [View all]
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Mar 2023
OP
Interestingly Europe went through what Florida is going through hundreds of years ago
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Mar 2023
#6
And please don't let your children know that some man stuck something in their mother!
erronis
Mar 2023
#17
David "porn" means that the USA has truly reached the tipping point of no return
f_townsend
Mar 2023
#28
When a third of a country thinks [using the term loosely] like this, why wouldn't they?
Wonder Why
Mar 2023
#51
"incident was another episode in escalating U.S. culture wars and questioned how the statue could be
riversedge
Mar 2023
#42
If Florida is labeling things like this as porn then will they be eviciting and or arresting Trump?
cstanleytech
Mar 2023
#50