Catholic Church reinforcing anti-gay stigma in Cameroon

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Article 347 of the Cameroon Penal Code punishes “sexual relations with a person of the same sex,” with sentences of prison terms as long as five years in addition to fines. According to Michel Togue, a Cameroonian attorney who has defended many people accused of homosexuality, gay and lesbian stereotypes alone are often enough to warrant charges.




The Catholic Church is one of the strongest forces reinforcing anti-gay stigma in Cameroon. Back in 2012, Simon-Victor Tonyé Bakot — then-Archbishop of Yaundé, Cameroon’s capital — said that homosexuality is “shameful, a disrespectful criticism of God who has chosen to create man and woman.” Before he was replaced in 2013, Bakot had also joined with Cameroon’s other Catholic bishops in issuing a statement condemning homosexuality, including the claim that “homosexuality opposes humanity and destroys it.”






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A buddy of mine is from the Cameroons and he says gay lifestyle is hated and severely punished there. The tribal cultures and modern law there just haven't kept up with the times, sad to say.
 
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If you think that is bad. The Church not long ago was teaching the words. of Jesus and had to stop when missionaries started disappearing.

The people thought Jesus was encouraging cannibalism.

Even when Jesus quoted the few verses, his disciples walked out in disgust.

Jesus talks about cannibalism in John 6: 54-55

54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

It is shortly after that the disciples depart from him in disbelief.

John 6:60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?"
61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you?
62 What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before!
63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
64 Yet there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.
65 He went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him."
66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
 
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But do you know why the Bible is all made up? What does it say about the people who made it all up?

Get a red letter bible. It highlights the words actually spoken by Jesus. There are a lot of things said about Jesus and many claims made about Jesus appearing to the apostles after his resurrection. Both John and Paul claim Jesus appeared to them in a vision and revealed himself to them. But personal psychological experience such as hearing voices and seeing apparitions cannot be corroborated. They could be delusions or hallucinations suffered by the claimants.

Reading the words actually spoken by Jesus allows a better understanding of the man and what he was suffering from. The medical term 'messiah complex' is one such description of what was causing Jesus's delusions and why his messianic ambition cost him his life.

But does the Bible also help to understand the people who have turned a human tragedy into a religion and the crucifixion of Jesus for blaspheming into a human sacrifice for the atonement of the worlds sins. How did a local event like the crucifixion of Jesus who was tried, convicted and put to death for blasphemy implicate the whole world in his death?

Ironically it was the Jews that created the environment for the Jesus story. They gave us Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses, Noah and the great flood. But lost the story of Jesus to the Hellenic Jews who created the early Christian creed that made Jesus a God and not a victim of religious bigotry.

So now we have the choice of a personal God in Jesus. The messianic ambition of Jesus continues to live on and even his return expected in his second coming. It is paradoxically the Gentile converts to Christianity that suffer from such nostalgia whereas the Jews have long buried the past incident of mistaken identity. Their unnecessary crucifixion of Jesus, a man suffering from delusions that might have easily been recognizable today, but religious zealotry concluded otherwise.

It was the Romans that mocked Jesus with the title king of the Jews and crucified him. It was the Romans who later under their Emperor Constantine resurrected Christianity and Jesus and made it the state religion. Was it not said. Render unto Cesar what is Cesar's and render unto God what is Gods.

Mark 12:17 Then Jesus said to them, "Give back to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's." And they were amazed at him.


Remember it was Jesus that said not to preach to the Gentiles. But the Romans would have none of that and gave the world the human sacrifice they demanded to atone for their sins. So now we have both a barbaric form of torture to punish criminals the crucifixion and a human sacrifice for sinners all combined in one. It is a rather unsophisticated union of two contradictory narratives, but it has caught the fancy of a quarter of the worlds Christian population. Finally there is a religion even Gentiles and pagans can accept and not be Jewish at the same time. How great is that!!!!

Matthew 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: "Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans.
 
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