Re: Sodom destroyed for being Republican (Was Boycott CBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Gene Seibel wrote:

> >
> > The Jesus mythos
> > himself adopted a young male lover when the mythos became Hellenized.
> >
>
> Where do you get this?

There are several sources in Christian Scripture.

Probably the most pointed is the frequent mention in the Gospel of John,
where we repeatedly hear about an unnamed disciple "whom Jesus loved." (See
John 13:23-26, 19:26-27, 20:1-10, 21:7a, 20-24)

In Mark, the description of Jesus' arrest includes a comment about a "young
man" who followed Jesus "with nothing but a linen cloth about his body" who
"left the linen cloth and ran away naked." (see Mark 14:51-52)

In Matthew's Gospel, there is the story of the centurion who begs Jesus to
heal someone in his household. (Matthew 8:5-13) Different translations give
"son" or "servant", but the actual Greek word is _pais_. The word literally
translates as "boy." In other examples of Koine Greek (the language of the
Gospels and most of Paul's letters), the word is never used to mean "son"
or "servant"; it is used either in general terms for a pre-pubescent boy
who is not blood kin or as a euphemism for a man's young male lover. The
cenurion's great agitation at his "boy's" sickness strongly implies that he
was much more than a mere boy attached to his household.
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