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Was Christianity a Bacchic cult in the Middle Ages?
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The Christian Church nowadays is generally well-known as a proponent of modesty and chastity. Has this always been the case? Did Christianity ruthlessly eradicate some hypothetical pagan cult, or has this cult been Christian in its origins? Nowadays, the very question raises an eyebrow or five at the very least; however, all of this is far from idle descanting. There really are valid reasons to suggest that the Occidental Christianity in the Middle Ages was an institution with an altogether different concept of morality than nowadays. Let us give a few quotes:
“. . . the decadency in the church and its morals attained grandiose proportions. . . . The nuns’ clothing didn’t help austerity, either, since it served to emphasize their natural beauty and gracefulness. . . . Nearly all Italian monasteries [according to Rodocanachi] allowed male visitors. [. . . ] Since all of the nuns were beautiful and clean-limbed, none of them went without a lover. The care of the dominae about the morals manifested as aiding the nuns in finding more elaborate ways of meeting their lovers and providing necessary alibis. During the Venetian carnival (which would last almost half a year over there), convents would turn into dance halls and become filled with masked men. . . . The dresses have been narrow, fitting tight around the waist, with large scoop necklines which demonstrated the white and voluptuous bodies of the nuns.”
“An unprejudiced study of mediaeval documents shows this mediaeval Christian cult to have been practically identical with the one we consider the ancient Bacchic, Dionysian cult. Therefore, we are allowed to a point of view that differs from the consensual — one which would interpret the distinct relics of the Bacchic in Christian rituals of the Middle Ages as the corruption of archetypal Christianity. These “ancient relics” that we bump into throughout the Middle Ages strike us as odd nowadays since they contradict the traditional chronology.”
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