• PraiseCorn [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    83·
    5 months ago

    “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” - Galatians 3:28

    Jesus was not a fucking white nationalist nazi chud from Texas, these ghouls need to be exorcised. 😭😭😭😭😭

      • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        27·
        5 months ago
        Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say,
    “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”;
and let not the eunuch say,
    “Behold, I am a dry tree.”
4 For thus says the Lord:
“To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,
    who choose the things that please me
    and hold fast my covenant,
5 I will give in my house and within my walls
    a monument and a name
    better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
    that shall not be cut off

        Bible says getting sterilized makes you better than other people, trans people stay winning bridget-pride-stay-mad

          • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
            5·
            5 months ago

            It’s also pretty accepted among modern scholarship that during this time period willing eunuchs were essentially trans women, many prominent ones referred to themselves in the feminine and wore feminine clothes. Especially in the levantine context of the bible. See the galli of Rome, and the related Roman Emperor Elagabalus who is often considered a trans woman. She was from Syria, which Romans considered effeminate due to the prominence of ‘eunuchs’ in their temples, and Elagabalus was a high level religious figure in pagan Syrian religion.

            Obviously the Romans saw feminity as weak and lesser, and would castrate enemies in order to essentially force them to be socially “trans”. It’s possible that Elagabalus was being smeared by political enemies as trans and too effeminate, but this essentially validates the theory that eunuchs were likely mostly trans women during this timespan. Plus, it just makes sense in lieu of hrt trans women would pursue castration.

            Because eunuchs couldn’t have children, they were often considered more holy in religions of this region largely because they didn’t have any attachments to feudal and prefeudal relations, which allowed them to be impartial observers and advisors. This carried on into the middle ages, though the way eunuchs operated and were perceived changed dramatically as Europe christianized. They were generally respected by kings and queens and were given extensive education in most societies of this time period, so it’s likely any literate scribe would know a eunuch if they weren’t one themselves.