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| The moral corruptions of Paganism all admittedly originated with the gods.
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§26. The moral corruptions of Paganism
all admittedly originated with the gods.
Women, for example, used to sit out in old days
in the temples of Phœnicia, consecrating to the gods there the
hire of their bodies, thinking they propitiated their goddess by
fornication, and that they would procure her favour by this. While men,
denying their nature, and no longer wishing to be males, put on the
guise of women, under the idea that they are thus gratifying and
honouring the Mother of their so-called gods. But all live along with
the basest, and vie with the worst among themselves, and as Paul said,
the holy minister of Christ142
: “For their
women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: and
likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in
their lust one toward another, men with men working
unseemliness.” 2. But acting in this and in like ways, they admit
and prove that the life of their so-called gods was of the same kind.
For from Zeus they have learned corruption of youth and adultery, from
Aphrodite fornication, from Rhea licentiousness, from Ares murders, and
from other gods other like things, which the laws punish and from which
every sober man turns away. Does it then remain fit to consider them
gods who do such things, instead of reckoning them, for the
licentiousness of their ways, more irrational than the brutes? Is it
fit to consider their worshippers human beings, instead of pitying them as more irrational than
the brutes, and more soul-less than inanimate things? For had they
considered the intellectual part of their soul they would not have
plunged headlong into these things, nor have denied the true God, the
Father of Christ.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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