Although this information is generally unknown, the fact is that in the ecclesiastical Middle Ages in Europe, there was literally a brothel at every turn. Although the church currently preaches complete sexual abstinence except for the purpose of reproduction in marriage, it was different in the past. In the Middle Ages, there was a brothel at every turn – when the church had the greatest power – there was total Sodom and Gomorrah, total moral decay, total moral decline.
Christians should learn humility. They often puff themselves up with pride (especially the Alliance for the Family and even more radical movements), claiming that their church is the only institution protecting the family. But wait – they shouldn't be so conceited – rather, they should be ashamed – they should look at what their church did in the past. It is not today that there is moral decay, it is not today that there is a "homosexual" Sodom and Gomorrah, but it was like that in the ecclesiastical Middle Ages – in the ecclesiastical Middle Ages there was a brothel at every turn, and it was then that the syphilis epidemic broke out. What is paradoxical is that in pagan times, although there were a few brothels, there were far fewer than in the ecclesiastical Middle Ages – then it was literally at every turn.
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The following misinformation about the church exists: the church has always been for sexual abstinence and for marriage throughout its history.
However, history tells us something completely different; on the contrary, in the historical periods of the Middle Ages and the modern era, prostitution and brothels were everywhere. People generally live in great ignorance, not knowing this, and ignorance is dangerous. Even priests or pastors themselves do not know the history of their churches.
We know how hypocritical Islam is. On the one hand, women cover themselves so as not to morally seduce men,
On the other hand, following the example of their Prophet, Muslims under Islamic law can marry little girls, with whom they can have sex as early as nine years of age – that is, they rape them.
And similar hypocrisy existed in the ecclesiastical Middle Ages. On the one hand, the church forbade masturbation, proclaiming that sexuality is inherently evil, that spouses should "virtuously" avoid any passion as much as possible. The church thus had a measured and negative view of sexuality as such, an overly ascetic view. The church called for an ascetic life even for married couples, sexuality was to be exclusively for the purpose of procreating children.
Prostitution was incomparably more widespread than it is today; at that time, it was so widespread that it was a truly socially pathological phenomenon.
Brothels were everywhere back then.
And perhaps every other woman was a prostitute.
The detailed brothel law, ordered by the rulers, also reveals the enormous prevalence of prostitution.
In the sixteenth century, an epidemic of syphilis even broke out due to prostitution!!!
Even the clergy was involved in prostitution!! Absolutely shocking!!
Fights were recorded in brothels, where the clergy were also involved.
Brothels existed, for example, within the spa – that was a "luxury" that we don't even see today.
After the outbreak of the syphilis epidemic, where Protestants were in power, they at least partially began to restrict or abolish brothels. However, the Catholic Church behaved worse here – even after the outbreak of the syphilis epidemic, the Catholic Church did not start to abolish brothels, nor did it push for it to happen.
The Church only very mildly criticized prostitution and considered it a sin. It did not take any more serious action against prostitution, nor did it criticize it more sharply.
The church essentially supported prostitution, and it was justified within the church by arguing that if prostitution were banned, men would also rape married women; therefore, according to church figures, prostitution was a lesser evil.
The Church argued that banning prostitution would lead to even greater passions, such as sodomy (a common term used by church figures for homosexuality and zoophilia) and masturbation.
In order to justify their support for prostitution in their conscience, church leaders began to criticize masturbation and homosexuality in an extremely radical way (the controversial church equated homosexuality with bestiality), in order to hypocritically show the world and people that they were still concerned about sexual purity.
All other sexual activities had to be demonized and radically criticized by church leaders in order to justify the greatest sexual perversion, such as prostitution.
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) , considered the most important teacher in the Catholic Church, had his blood brothers who regularly visited brothels.
Thomas Aquinas is known as a very sharp critic of homosexuality, but he does not say a word about the criticism of prostitution.
Source of information: Thomas_Aquinas
Paradoxically, Karl Marx was a better Christian than Thomas Aquinas, because he considered it a priority to eliminate brothels!
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Augustine (354-430), probably the most important Church Father of the Roman Catholic Church, himself lived with a prostitute in his youth, and his depraved views remained even after his so-called conversion. He was the first to come up with the idea that abolishing prostitution would be a mistake, so that by suppressing it, even greater fornication would not spread. His view is extremely controversial.
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In the Middle Ages (from the Middle Ages to the present day), Mary Magdalene was considered a prostitute. However, this was a fabrication of the medieval church; in reality, it is not true. The church's goal was to promote prostitution. After all, if Mary Magdalene could be a prostitute and God forgave her, how much sooner could I be a prostitute, a medieval woman might have thought.
Source of information:
History of prostitution
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In the first part of the article, I wrote about certain facts regarding the history of medieval Christianity, such as the prevalence of prostitution.
Now I will write about how the church manipulated Bible translations in favor of prostitution.
Look what Lot said to the men of Sodom: it's quite controversial.
Gen 19
8 I have two daughters who have not yet known a man. I will bring them out to you, do with them as you please . But do not do anything to these men, for they have taken refuge in the shadow of my roof!"
And it is not true that the Vatican would not have noticed this controversial part of the Bible. It noticed it and began to act in order to cover up this major case . In the new Vatican version of the Bible – in the New Vulgate (the translation was made between 1969 and 1979). And although there is no difference between Jerome's Vulgate and the New Vulgate (there are only minor differences in just a few verses of the Bible), this controversial verse is among those few modified verses. The translation has been completely reworked and replaced with a "classic", less controversial translation.
You can verify this information on the server with many versions of the Bible translation http://www.obohu.cz/bible/
http://www.obohu.cz/bible/index.php?styl=PR&k=Gn&kap=19&v=8&por[]=SKP&por[]=SVUL&por[]=VUL&por[]=NVUL&vyberpor=porovnat#v8
I was very surprised by the following – it is even more controversial here. The church father, the pervert Jerome (347 – 420), who wrote the Vulgate and is still highly respected by the Catholic Church as a saint, promoted prostitution, his translation is as follows:
I have two daughters who have not yet known a man. I will bring them out to you, you can abuse (rape) them as you please. But do not do anything like that to these men, for they have taken refuge in the shadow of my roof!"
The word abutimini means to abuse or rape. This is something absolutely outrageous that the pervert Jerome allowed himself. He thus promoted not only prostitution, but even rape. Lot is considered a role model and a good figure in the Bible, and Jerome incorrectly translates his words in a very perverse way.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abutimini
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abutor#Latin
I have two daughters who have not yet known a man; I will bring them out to you, and you may do with them as you please, only do not do anything to these men, because they have come under the shelter of my roof.
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This is a part of the Bible that promotes prostitution and marital infidelity. However, one of the two oldest manuscripts of the Bible – the Codex Sinaiticus – does not have this part of the Bible, nor does the Aramaic original of the Bible – the Peshitta. This was only added to the Bible by church perverts to promote prostitution:
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx?book=36&chapter=8&lid=en&side=r&verse=12&zoomSlider=0
The Gospel according to John – chapter 8
1 Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 But early in the morning he returned to the temple, and all the people flocked to him. He sat down and taught them. 3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, placed her in the middle 4 and said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 Moses in the law commanded us to stone such women. What do you say?" 6 But they said this to test him and to be able to accuse him. Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger. 7 But when they kept asking him, he straightened up and said to them, "Whoever among you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." 8 And again he bent down and wrote on the ground. 9 When they heard this, one by one – starting with the elders – they slipped away, until he was left alone with the woman who stood in the middle. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" 11 She answered, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more!"
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The following misinformation and myth exists in the world: pagans lived very immorally and wildly, and the church was the amazing one that brought morality and marital order into life.
The truth is exactly the opposite. Before Christianization, pagans cared a lot about marriage and marital fidelity, prostitution was rare and was considered an extremely impure and disgusting thing.
For example, in Greece, prostitutes were forbidden to attend social events (certainly so that people would not be disgusted by them) or to enter a pagan temple (certainly so that they would not desecrate it). Temple prostitution is practically a myth.
In the Roman Empire, marriage was considered very important. Marriage was a proper legal relationship and commitment. Marital infidelity was severely punished; the adulterer had all his property confiscated and was exiled. A woman who committed marital infidelity also fared very badly; she was thrown out on the street and ended up homeless – this is what Roman law allowed.
And in the event that the husband caught the adulterer in the act, according to Roman and Greek law, he had the right to kill the adulterer with impunity. Namely, the husband could understandably have an affect in such a situation, so the law of the time protected him from punishment for such an affected and justified murder.
Marital divorces practically did not exist. Only for very serious reasons, it had to be approved by the judge at that time, and he did not have to approve it!! For historians, it was a great surprise that despite the rich numerous Latin historical writings, they did not find any documentation of any frivolous divorce, such as the will to leave for another new partner.
In Ancient Greece, they had a very radical pro-family policy. A man has a duty, under threat of serious punishment, to have a wife by a certain age, for the purpose of maintaining the population!!!
The current modern church has nothing to boast about when it says that it protects the family, when people in ancient times were very decent in the sexual area. So the current modern church is not unique in this area.
Imagine if marital infidelity were punished today – that would be unacceptable and unimaginable, even for the most conservative Christians – but in ancient times it was like that – the family was a very stable environment – the children's environment was psychologically ideal because there were no divorces.
In conclusion: you have learned very surprising information about Christianity, the church Middle Ages, and how much immorality was happening at that time.
While the current modern church boasts of protecting the family and marital fidelity, the history of the church tells a different story. Christianity morally corrupted decent and chaste pagans,
Christianity and the Bible promoted marital infidelity, Christianity and the Bible broke up families!!!
The Church fought against masturbation. It is quite likely that by banning masturbation, it wanted to subtly promote prostitution. After all, what a pity it would be if male sexual potential went to waste – at least that's what follows from the controversial writings of St. Augustine.
A side note (not directly related to this article): just for interest, the Czech Republic is the country with the most brothels per capita in the world. In this area, the difference between the Czech Republic and Slovakia is huge, even though we are neighbours. On the other hand, prostitution is illegal in Russia and the USA (except for one state).
Sources of information:
Marriage in ancient Rome
Ancient Greek marriage law
Prostitution in ancient Greece
Prostitution in ancient Rome
Sexuality in ancient Rome#Prostitution