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2nd Reason I'm not a Christian - 2nd Reason You Shouldn't be Either

Whited Sepulchers

Satan, Soy and... Shrinking Penises?

MEL SEESHOLTZ

According to James Rutz, chairman of Megashift Ministries and founder-chairman of Open Church Ministries, “A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals.” It seems Satan is lurking in… soy.

Mr. Rutz claims that “Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That’s why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today’s rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products.”

After you stop laughing, examine Mr. Rutz’s preposterous – not to mention totally unsupported – claims.

“Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality.” How does one even begin to respond to such nonsense? Since soy products such as tofu – which Mr. Rutz says must be completely avoided – have been traditional parts of the Chinese and other Eastern diets for over 2000 years, shouldn’t China be a totally homosexual nation by now? Similarly, since tofu is a staple in Buddhists’ vegetarian diets, shouldn’t all Buddhists be gay?

As for Mr. Rutz’s claim that soy “commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis,” one has to wonder how he came to that conclusion. Has he been conducting a longitudinal study? Has he been hands-on measuring the penises of men who got soy milk as infants or who eat tofu?

The second sentence makes as little sense as the first: “That’s why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today’s rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products.”



Looks like the soy got to Rutz?

Has there been “a rise in homosexuality”? If so, Mr. Rutz seems to be the only one who knows about it. What there has been is a rise in the number of people who refuse to live their lives “in the closet.” Most leave the closet willingly, but some – such as antigay evangelicals Ted Haggard and Paul Barnes – need a little push.

Mr. Rutz wants – indeed needs – something to “blame” for homosexuality. How ironic that one who claims to be preaching “God’s truth” can’t find it within himself to accept “God’s plan” as evidenced throughout human history.

Homosexuals have existed in all cultures and in all times, even before soy milk and tofu were invented or consumed. From prehistoric rock paintings left by the San people in modern day Zimbabwe, to ancient Greece and Rome and the “homosexual” Christian saints of the Middle Ages who left a considerable body of love poetry dedicated to their partners –

He was the refuge of my spirit, the sweet solace of my griefs, whose heart of love received me when fatigued by labors, whose counsel refreshed me when plunged in sadness and grief... What more is there, then, that I can say? Was it not a foretaste of blessedness thus to love and thus to be loved?

– Saint Aelred, from his eulogy for his lover Simon

– to Native American berdache who were venerated for their “two-spirit” nature, homosexuals have always been present. One would naturally conclude, therefore, that homosexuality is part of “God’s plan” and the specific nature the Divine ordained for some individuals.

Blind to history, Rutz continued his apologia by claiming that women who give soy milk to their babies are turning them into future homosexuals because of the estrogen content of soy. Actually, soy does not contain estrogen. It contains isoflavonoid phytoestrogens:

More than 300 foods have been shown to contain phytoestrogens. Most food phytoestrogens are from one of three chemical classes, the isoflavonoids, the lignans or the coumestans. Isoflavonoid phytoestrogens are found in beans from the legume family; soybeans and soy products are the major dietary source of this type of phytoestrogens. Lignan phytoestrogens are found in high fiber foods such as cereal brans and beans; flaxseeds contain large amounts of lignans. The coumestan phytoestrogens are found in various beans such as split peas, pinto beans, and lima beans; alfalfa and clover sprouts are the foods with the highest amounts of coumestans.

There are many different ways that phytoestrogens may work in the body. The chemical structure of phytoestrogens is similar to estrogen, and they may act as mimics (copies) of estrogen. On the other hand, phytoestrogens also have effects that are different from those of estrogen.

Working as estrogen mimics, phytoestrogens may either have the same effects as estrogen or block estrogen’s effects. Which effect the phytoestrogen produces can depend on the dose of the phytoestrogen. The phytoestrogen can act like estrogen at low doses but block estrogen at high doses.

Undaunted by real science, Rutz babbled on about the “estrogen” in soy and proclaimed in horror, “most babies are bottle-fed during some part of their infancy, and one-fourth of them are getting soy milk!” If one-fourth get soy milk, using Rutz’s pseudo-science and sophomoric “reasoning” shouldn’t one-fourth of the population be gay?

Not surprisingly, Mr. Rutz offered no studies to support his “medical” claims about the effects of soy on human sexuality and men’s penis size. Could that be because there aren’t any?

Reality check. A part of the gay community as well as an ever-increasing part of the straight community are vegetarian or vegan, which means they consume a lot of soy products including the dreaded tofu.

Common sense. If, as Mr. Rutz claimed, soy “commonly” leads to a decrease in penis size, don’t you think the diligently voyeuristic media would have picked up on the worldwide stampede of men seeking medical help for their shriveling penises?

Undaunted by reality, science and common sense, Mr. Rutz continued his argument providing a telling look at its motives:

Homosexuals often argue that their homosexuality is inborn because “I can’t remember a time when I wasn't homosexual.” No, homosexuality is always deviant. But now many of them can truthfully say that they can't remember a time when excess estrogen wasn’t influencing them.

This sounds a lot like what the defenders of slavery and segregation once said: doesn’t matter if they were “born that way,” they’re still inferior and, therefore, “deviant.” Rutz should have a look at “When religion loses its credibility,” a USA Today article by Christian writer Oliver Thomas:

What if Christian leaders are wrong about homosexuality? I suppose, much as a newspaper maintains its credibility by setting the record straight, church leaders would need to do the same:

Correction: Despite what you might have read, heard or been taught throughout your churchgoing life, homosexuality is, in fact, determined at birth and is not to be condemned by God's followers. …

Christianity is in danger of squandering its moral authority by continuing its pattern of discrimination against gays and lesbians in the face of mounting scientific evidence that sexual orientation has little or nothing to do with choice. To the contrary, whether sexual orientation arises as a result of the mother’s hormones or the child’s brain structure or DNA, it is almost certainly an accident of birth. The point is this: Without choice, there can be no moral culpability. [link added]

What there is, however, are self-serving pathological “moralists” who concoct new, ever more bizarre ways to demean and degrade their fellow human beings while hiding behind “religion” and scare tactics like “soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality.”

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
– Oscar Wilde

Our society gives wide berth to obvious pathology when it is covered by religious language.– The Right Reverend John Shelby Spong


http://www.counterbias.com



SOY- made a ManDate out of Me?
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This is typical of the Religious Right Movement. This movement started in the 1800's. Then they were known as tongue talkers, pentecostals, snake handlers, and holy rollers.They were considered a weird and wild cult for many decades. They still are by people who can think for themselves.

This is just another example why I am not a Christian. They make this shit up and then preach it as the truth. Where does the Bible say to go into all the world and preach against soy? or preach against gays? These ignorasses parading as ministers of the Gospel, are the shepherds that are muddying the waters, then take their flock to the water to drink in the shepherd's shit.

Why is what David Koresh said was bad? and this garbage okay?

Soy the gay-maker sermon should be a crime and should be prosecuted as fraud, if not hate crime. It's not any worse than the lie that Pat Robertson claims of drinking his 'for sale' stinkin energy piss, then pressing 2000 pounds... that's nearly 700 pounds more than the world record. Go ye into all the world and sell jesus pancakes and jesus juice.

What a pile of slime this chrisitianity has turned into!!!

It's so easy to prove them liars and hypocrites. It's even easier to prove they are NOT believers.

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