Saturday, July 20, 2019

German or not German?

Essentialists say that Madeleine Albright is and always was Jewish, that Catherine the Great and Handel were German.There is a History of Germans in Russia
Although each German state had its own laws, Germans jurists had a jurists association, including the Austrian jurists. There is "Anglo-Saxon", "North-American", "U.S.ian", "British," but in 1880 "German" could still mean German including Austrians, just as Mozart and Beet­hoven were Germans (living in Vienna). Now he have "German-speaking countries" which includes German-speaking Switzer­land and Lichten­stein. "Germans" still includes Frenchman in Elass and in parts of Lorraine, in Luxemburg, Belgium, Italia and Rumania, Namibia and Brasil.
Napoleon was told, that some of his generals were speaking German among themselves. He answered: As long as they win battles for France, I don't cake what they speak.
German can refer to state, nation ((I know that in the U.S.A. these are almost the same, but that is not so in most languages)), language, culture, people ...
"Homosexual" can refer to a prefered object choice, to a loving relation, to dirty sex, to just sex, to many kinds of relationships.
Some people honestly believe that the qurʾān does say nothing on homosexual acts, because the word does not occur and because the story of the Cities of the Plain is not about gay marriage.
Yes, it is not about loving relations between two men.
It is about sex between men.
That it is about sex in which the pleasure of one party is important while pleasure/ lust/ initiative of the other party is irrelevant, does not make it non-homosexual.
Once you work with that category, there is no way out: the qurʾān say something about it.
Yes: a man can have sex with a man, without being a "homosexual".
And you can declare: There is no homosexuality, nowhere, never! It is a stupid category.
But to say: Homosexuality exists, and: Bible and Qurʾān say nothing about it
makes no sense.

No comments: