1) Yes, I did say that. Only when the society becomes so open that gayness is safe out of the closet will the peak of Carpe Diem attitude in the larger society be clearly enunciated.
2) Your homophobic reaction to the mention of gayness is what is showing in the passionand emotional charged language. You can not find anything that I have posted that disparages or even considers whether the occurence of open gayness, or for thet matter, gayness itself, is good or bad or responsil=ble for what follows, ie; Fall of Empire.
3) Yes, the obliteration of all controversy and heresy. Terrible. But, everyone of those people would be dead today, anyway. Not to be unsympathic, just realistic. These people apparently illustrate the point that Universal Stoic Monastic non Hedonistic culture was mandatory. The theocracy of Universal Christianity wasn't playing around with trying to define things like "what is pornogrphy."
4) It is all part of the evidence, though, that the scriptures contain the evidence that a science of Sociology was so advanced that these people could predict the coming next 2000 years, including just what you bring to our attention, the repression.
Zech. 13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, ( 324-1492
Zech. 13:3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy (in heresy), then his (Catholic) father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD, (Christ): and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.-->
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