Islam and Christianity Condemn Homosexuality for Different Reasons

Majority of People Don't Even Realize it

While it's a widespread knowledge that both Islam and Christianity condemn homosexuality, I'm not sure it is well understood that the reasons for this condemnation are entirely different. In fact I do believe that I am the first one to realize this difference to its full extent. Majority of people content themselves with the fact that Islam and Christianity have many similar points (taking into account Islam was derived from Christianity, no wonder), and this one is just one of them. In truth, everything is much trickier.

Christianity overall has very strict sexual norms and encourages virginity over sexual life (thus, Christianity created the monastic institution to practice life-long virginity, and embedded the tale of virgin birth as vital into its canon). In general Christianity has a peculiar and irrational abhorrence of sex and sexuality. Sex is condemned to be dirty and sinful by default. Hence, in the eye of a devout Christian, EVERY sexual act (even straight!) is a 'sin'. But, because we as humankind cannot survive without such a 'sinful act', it is a necessity to have sex for us for procreation sex, and Christian church somewhat 'cleans' sex from its 'sinful nature' by sanctioning of heterosexual life in a marriage blessed in Church. This is vitally important because sex outside of marriage and even BEFORE marriage is also considered to be a 'sin' in Christianity. Divorces also weren't allowed in medieval age, because 'God blessed your marriage forever'.

But, EVEN if Church 'sanctifies' marriage, VIRGINITY is STILL superior to marital life in Christianity. This is also vitally important to realize. This makes Christianity unique religion in the world I believe. NO OTHER religion believes virginity to be superior over sexual life. No other religion encourages lifelong virginity (well, there is monastic institution in Buddhism too but it's slightly different here). EVEN heterosexual marital life is INFERIOR to virgin life of a monk and a nun. Curious, isn't it?

Yeah, sex is necessary for human procreation. But an IDEAL human procreation in Christianity is a VIRGIN BIRTH - the way Jesus was born. A virgin birth, without 'sinful sexual interference'. Even MORE curious, is it not?

This is, again, perfectly in accordance with a main Christian doctrine about our human nature being 'sinful' by default as a consequence of the Original Sin. Thus, our bodies are 'sinful' by default (and every bodily instinct, including sexual one!) while our soul, or spirit, is holy. Body belongs to the Devil while soul - to God. I guess this peculiar doctrine came to Christianity from Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism but was modified and amplified there.

Well, how homosexuality came in? Pretty logically. Sex and sexuality are sinful by default, but heterosexual sex is kinda necessary for procreation and hence is 'sanctified' in Church. Homosexual sex is NOT necessary for procreation - it's just 'for pleasure', hence, it's a 'pure sin', and Church isn't going to 'sanctify' it. Again, I disagree with this view but it all seems pretty logical and consistent INSIDE Christian belief system though. Also, Christianity doesn't condemn JUST homosexuality - it condemns ANY extramarital or premarital sex EQUALLY (EVEN masturbation!). The fact that Christian societies were more harsh to homosexuals rather than to say straight adulterers I believe has nothing to do with Christian doctrine but rather with societal prejudices. In Christian orthodoxy, ANY extramarital sex is 'sinful'. Moreover, sex itself is 'sinful' and inferior to virgin life. With this view, no wonder that homosexuality is condemned.

There is one more peculiar aspect of condemnation of homosexuality in Christianity which I'm not sure everyone understands. Christianity doesn't condemn homosexuality specifically, it condemns as I said any extramarital sex and ANY SODOMY - which is ANY sexual intercourse not between penis and vagina. That is, ANY oral and anal sex (including in straight couples) is SINFUL because they are 'unnatural' and do not serve procreation, not just gay sex. The problem with gay sex for Christians is that two men or two women cannot have any 'natural' sex with each other, hence, they shouldn't have sex at all. Masturbation is also 'sinful'. Again, I disagree with all of it, but within Christian belief system it's consistent though.

This being said, Christians were not opposed to men loving each other and forming close male bonds. I believe there is recent data that early Christian Church in Europe (before it split into Catholic and Orthodox one) blessed certain 'brother unions' between two men. I guess Christians should have realized those men clearly loved each other MORE than friends, and were OK with it. They just didn't think those men should have 'unnecessary' and 'unnatural' sex! Necessity is 'paramount', eh? No any excesses? This is also Christian credo.

Now, we're coming to Islam. Here is a FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE in Islamic approach to homosexuality. Islam isn't opposed to sex per se as 'sinful'. There is NO monastic institution in Islamic culture, and no encouragement of lifelong virginity. Virgin birth tale also doesn't apply to Islam since Islam acknowledges Christ just as one of Allah's prophets', and, hence, rejects Christian doctrine about Jesus being a Son of God and all Virgin Birth story altogether. In fact, the only virgins which Islam mentions are Houris - 'virgins of Paradise' whom 'devout' Muslim men in Paradise would defile there (e.g, fuck). So to say, those 'virgins' are to part with their virginity as soon as devout Muslim men would get into their 'Paradise'.

Moreover, Islam actually encourages and blesses sexual excesses in heterosexual men. Islam encourages men to have many wives (in fact as many as they can afford, thus way Islamic sultans and caliphs ended up with thousands of 'wives' and also sexual slaves in their immense harems!) Islam doesn't place ANY restrictions upon their sexual lives.

Even worse, Islam does NOT explicitly prohibit say rape, pedophilia and bestiality. Moreover, to rape a 'sexual slave' (which is NON Muslim woman) is allowed in Islam, just like to have female sexual slaves. Moreover, Islam doesn't have AGE restrictions for sex and allows child marriage. In fact, just when girl hits puberty, she's considered ready to be fucked in Islam. Islamic 'prophet' Muhammad himself had married a six-year old girl Aisha and 'consummated' his marriage when she was JUST NINE! This is an outrageous pedophilia in both Christianity and our secular morals but is perfectly acceptable in Islam. Moreover, some Hadiths implicitly allow Muslims to 'release their lust' on goats and sheep if there is no wife or 'sexual slave'! See all the horror of that?

Hence, as you can see, not only Islam doesn't condemn sex and sexual excesses as 'sin', it ENCOURAGES them in heterosexual men! Sex doesn't have to be natural as well for Islam since it allows bestiality. Then what's the problem Islam has with homosexuality?

I'd tell you. If you want to understand that, you need also to understand why Islam allows all that I mentioned - male polygamy, pedophilia…The main goal of Islam as I had also written before is to Conquer, to Convert sand to Colonize the whole world. For this purpose, Muslims need to 'breed well’ most of all. Hence, everything which facilitates breeding is ‘blessed’ in Islam while everything which is obstructs it – condemned. Its AS SIMPLE and as MONSTYROUS as that!

Multiple wives facilitate breeding hence harems are allowed and encouraged in Islam. Child marriage facilitates breeding too since the EARLIER woman would start to give birth, the MORE kids she could give birth to during her life. Bestiality doesn’t facilitate breeding but it’s ‘necessary’ to have it in order to ‘keep male sexual potency at high levels’ when women are not around (and masturbation is apparently not that good for it and ‘too gay’). See the point?

Now, homosexuality obviously OBSTRUCTS breeding because gay sex does not result in child birth, hence, it should be forbidden. Why not to use gay sex in the same way as bestiality – to ‘keep male sexual potency at high levels’ when women are not around? “Cause unlike bestiality, homosexuality might result in serious love bonds which might induce some men to forsake traditional marriage and harems with their breeding and to live with their fellow men CHILDLESS instead. Thus, EVEN if a very small percentage of men would be doing it, it would STILL be a loss to incessant breeding – the main purpose of Islam – and hence should be forbidden.

This also explains perfectly why Islam doesn’t allow polyandry like polygamy and restricts female sexual freedoms much more than male ones – because polyandry doesn’t facilitate breeding (that is, a woman would not give birth to more kids if she’d be living with many men), and female sexual freedoms overall would leads to women taking control over their childbirth process and refusing to be just incubators for incessant breeding which is their main role in Islam.

Simple, eh? And pretty monstrous.

So, as you can see now, Christianity and Islam condemn homosexuality for ENTIRELY DIFFERENT REASONS. Christianity EQUALLY condemns ANY extramarital and ‘unnatural’ sex, and even ‘natural marital’ sex too because sex is ‘sinful’ by default there, and encourages lifelong virginity over it. Islam condemns homosexuality MERELY because it impedes fast breeding. Now, as a gay man, I disagree with BOTH of it but I respect Christian reasons more. Why? I believe Christianity is in error with regards to sex and sexuality overall but it’s a genuine error though. If Christianity deems any sex and especially ‘unnatural and unnecessary’ sex to be ‘immoral’, it’s LOGICAL it condemns it. In Islam, it’s not about morality at all but about PURELY PRAGMATIC REASONS of FASTEST BREEDING. So gay people are condemned and executed in Islamic countries PURELY because a TINY BIT impede Islamic incessant breeding. This is outrageous, especially on the background of the fact that Islam allows multiple wives, child marriage, sexual slaves and EVEN bestiality! That’s why Islamic ideology is my mortal enemy and there NEVER WOULD BE ANY PIECE BETWEEN ME AND ISLAM.