In Reply to: Fukee, Fukee? Precursor to god's whores.... posted by ToC (reposted) on July 12, 2006 at 01:09:08:
Why is it politically incorrect to joke about blacks or African Americans but still fine to stereo-type Asians? In case you're too thick, I am referring to your “fukee fukee” comment.
I get people speaking pigeon English and using sign language on me for half-an-hour while I speak without a trace of an accent; I get patronized; I get people trying to impress me with a Thai phrase, a Chinese phrase, a Korean phrase, a Japanese phrase; people mention they know another Chinese person called “Lee something” and ask me if I know him; they assume I eat with chopsticks, practice martial arts, know herbal infusions to help their erectile dysfunction and ask me for advice; they think I am industrious when actually I am lazy; I get credited with things the Malaysians or Vietnamese and even the Arabs do or did; people tell me mixed up generic Asian anecdotes and expect me to be identify with them. You might think I'm harping on about nothing, but the very ignorance I describe begins with comments like yours.
There is no evidence for your theory that some Taoist or Buddhist philosophy that only encouraged spiritual, wholesome, healthy and enlightened sexual practices corrupted anyone and resulted in adherents becoming “god's whores.” There is no need to perpetuate the myth that all evils come from faraway “Oriental” lands, oh-so foreign to western Judaeo-Christian values.
If you want to attribute any religious practices to being a “precursor to god's whores” why don't you look closer to home, to what more likely influenced or inspired Berg, at what was going on for centuries before the era you mentioned?
Try looking up “Greek temple prostitutes” which made it into the New Testament. They were even mentioned by Paul in the 1st book of Corinthians. They, not Taosists or Buddhists, fukeed fukeed and donated their income to the temple. Look up “Anaitis” and “Aphrodite” and see what you find.
Or look up the Hebrew word “Kidsha” which was used to describe a Canaanite religious prostitute in Genesis 38:21.
Or look up “Bes” and “Hathor” about “sacred prostitution in Egypt.”