Wednesday, 14 October 2020

#MeToo & CHRISTIANITY

'Implicit in #MeToo was the same call to sexual continence that has reverberated throughout the Church's history. Protestors who marched in the red cloaks of handmaids were summoning men to exercise control over their lusts just as the Puritans had done. Appetites that had been hailed by enthusiasts for sexual liberation as Dionysiac stood condemned once again as predatory and violent. The human body was not an object, not a commodity to be used by the rich and powerful as and when they pleased. Two thousands years of Christian sexual morality had resulted in men as well as women widely taking this for granted. Had it not, then #MeToo would have had no force.' 
Tom Holland, Dominion, p.515.