There are many links between Eddy's Christian Science and Hinduism. The goal of this blog is to compare and contrast these similar cults to negate their philosophy, but there are other issues we can latch on to hurt these causes. One thing Christian Science and Hinduism have in common is a layer of homophobia which is scriptural and cultural and will never be totally undone, it is baked into the cake. Below are homophobic quotes from Christian Science and Hindu scriptures... Christian Scientists even said gays should be put to death. Homophobia is felt by LGBTQs in both the Christian Science Church and Hindu Temple, these quotes need to be spread so people are aware and the culture they spread needs to be called out and denounced... there is no way to associate with these religions without in someway apologizing for their ingrained anti-homosexuality.
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Gay People in Christian Science?
To many loyal Christian Scientists, April 22, 1967 was a day of great sadness. It was on that day that the first article on the human expression of love between people of the same sex appeared in one of our periodicals. In that piece ("Homosexuality Can Be Healed," Christian Science Sentinel, p. 681), a particularly uninspired quote from Leviticus (Lev. 20:13) was used to suggest that homosexuals be put to death.
Since then, similar pieces have appeared in the Christian Science periodicals. (See Christian Science Sentinel, November 18, 1972, p. 2081; Christian Science Sentinel, March 20, 1976, p. 457; The Christian Science Monitor, November 8, 1977, editorial page; The Christian Science Journal, October 1978, p. 609; Christian Science Sentinel, March 5, 1979, p. 377; The Christian Science Journal, April 1979, p. 211; and especially The Christian Science Journal, October 1975, p. 607.)
Homosexuality In Hinduism
Homosexuality in men is clearly stated as a sin in the Manu Smriti.
मैथुनं तु समासेव्य पुंसि योषिति वा द्विजः ।गोयानेऽप्सु दिवा चैव सवासाः स्नानमाचरेत् ॥ १७४ ॥
maithunaṃ tu samāsevya puṃsi yoṣiti vā dvijaḥ |
goyāne'psu divā caiva savāsāḥ snānamācaret || 174 ||
If a twice-born man commits an unnatural offence with a male, or has intercourse with a female, in an ox-cart, or in water, or during the day, — he should take a bath along with his clothes. — (174)
One more shloka from Manu Smriti that condemns homosexuality in men is given below:
ब्राह्मणस्य रुजः कृत्वा घ्रातिरघ्रेयमद्ययोः ।
जैह्म्यं च मैथुनं पुंसि जातिभ्रंशकरं स्मृतम् ॥ ६७ ॥
brāhmaṇasya rujaḥ kṛtvā ghrātiraghreyamadyayoḥ |
jaihmyaṃ ca maithunaṃ puṃsi jātibhraṃśakaraṃ smṛtam || 67 ||
Causing pain to a Brāhmaṇa (by a blow), — smelling at things that should not be smelt, or at wine, — cheating — and sexual intercourse with a man, — all this is declared to lead to loss of caste (Gatibhramsa). — (67)
The Atri Smriti also mentions homosexuality as a sin and prescribes an expiation measure for the same:
By discharging semen into inhuman females except a cow, into a woman in [her] menses, into others that have no female organs (i.e., a man or a eunuch), or into water one should perform the penance of Santapanam.
Adding some further relevant verses from the Dharmasutra of Apastambha (AD) and that of BaudhAyana (BD). In these verses the sanskrit original being used is Ayoni for non-vaginal. Also, these verses prohibit a whole lot of sexual activities besides prohibiting (male-male) homosexuality.
From BD:
One who does not have sex with his wife during her season, and one who has sex with her outside her season, as also one who deposits his semen in a place other than the vagina ––they all incur the same guilt. BD 3.7.2
From AD:
A man who ejaculates his semen in any place other than the vagina becomes equal to a thief, equal to a murderer of a Brahmin. AD 1.19.15
