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:-) It is said[^1] that the God of the Jews ravaged Pompeii because of polarized views on the matter of sexuality. A bit later, they won the war for the heart
by dsign 3y ago
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It is said[^1] that the God of the Jews ravaged Pompeii because of polarized views on the matter of sexuality. A bit later, they won the war for the heart of Western culture. So, yes, those bros had those statues and depictions for the sake of fertility and sports, and our modern occidental brains[^2] will keep glitching when told otherwise.
[^1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haP5MoLyWGw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haP5MoLyWGw
[^2] In case you feel tempted to say those Western values have always been universal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_paintings_in_Bhutan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_paintings_in_Bhutan
- hnbad 3y agoYour first link is to what seems to be a Christian mythology channel rather than a history channel, so I don't know what that brings to the table. Your second link just emphasizes what I said: weiners don't universally mean "fertility symbol". I don't think the blokes drawing peckers on bathroom stalls do it either as a fertility symbol nor to ward off evil spirits, so this still doesn't address that other motivations can exist. Also Pompeii is an actual place that was "ravaged" by a volcanic eruption, not "the God of the Jews". Unless you want to pin actual natural disasters in actual places in actual recorded history on a god of the gaps, I don't think sexuality had anything to do with the volcano.