Sunday, September 30, 2012

Cyprian on Homosexuality

Revisiting a project I began many moons ago - refuting revisionist theology on homosexuality.

Looking now at the writings of select church fathers,in order to learn how they preached on the subject of human sexuality.

Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus (b.200AD - martyred September 14, 258), early Christian theologian and bishop of Carthage.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/148534/Saint-Cyprian

He denounced homosexuality in Ad Donatus, chapter 9.
"...if you should be able...to direct your eyes into secret places, to unfasten the locked doors of sleeping
chambers and to open these hidden recesses to the perception of sight, you would behold that being carried on by the unchaste which a chaste countenance could not behold; you would see what it is a crime even to
see...Men with frenzied lusts rush against men.Things are done which cannot even give pleasure to those who do them."