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Michael David Barbezat, Research Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University

The Christmas when all the sodomites died

The Beast Acheron, 1475 Simon Marmion (Flemish, active 1450–1489) Getty Museum

There is an obscure medieval legend that says once upon a time in Bethlehem, a child was born whose holiness was so great it required the slaughter of all the “sodomites” in the world.

Sodomites, the legend says, are so impure God did not want to share His humanity with them. So, He killed them all before He became human.

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