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Ya it'll be a cold day in hell before Instagram requires men to hide their nipples. Just shows how ingrained America's views on sex, sexuality and gender are in Christianity.
Christian tradition, sure, but the Bible doesn't have much to say about nipples so any specific rule regarding them seems to be more of an inference than a command.
The Bible stopped being a real guide for American Christians the moment they landed on our coast
Technically correct, because they weren't "American" before they landed.
They abandoned the Bible as a real guide long before that, though.
Isn’t the constitution the New New Testament.
Doesn't stop them from using it as the "reason" for several rules
Ah yes, and then uses Jesus' name in the same sentence as USA. The guy hated capitalism more than anything.
The Wikipedia article says historically wet nursing was available to all social classes, so that doesn't really jive.
What does the pope have to say about nipples? I've seen some in Christian art (didn't touch myself to these, just in case), but didn't realize there was an opinion on this?
The Catechism of the Catholic Church reads:
People here are not serious, they repeat slogans and polemics very superficially. The nipple taboo is found across pre-Christian and non-Abrahamic societies, probably because of breasts' association with fertility. I.e
But that would be worse?
The solution to women being treated unfairly is not to start treating men unfairly too. It's to treat women fairly.