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Originally Posted by jwb
So you're going with the chicken/egg routine
Once again though you pick a vague enough term like "tradition." This is just like the "culture" argument all over again. Religion is intimately and inextricably linked to both tradition and culture. It also acts as an explicit mechanism for preserving both.
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Alright I'm honestly too lazy to stay in this Islam conversation but if you're suggesting it's possible that religion created homophobia rather than just bolster it then I have to side eye you. It's not even about white knighting religion but religion would never have been homophobic if homophobia hadn't already been a cultural norm that religion was codifying and rationalizing. Even the Greeks didn't allow for men marrying men.