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pagan culture, and that it emerged together with claim of re-awakening
paganism. The most defining characteristic of paganism is that it lacks the
moral criteria and laws revealed by God. In the pagan world, therefore, sexual
deviance of all kinds was able to
flourish. It was the city-states of
ancient Greece that brought these to
their highest point. In Athens and
Sparta, homosexuality was seen as
quite normal, an acceptable
relationship, and even a virtue.
In Sparta especially, the
ancestor of fascism, a special
importance was attributed to the
concept of "manliness," and under
the name of "love of man,"
homosexuality was widely accepted.
Spartan soldiers believed that they
increased their strength by having
sexual relations with each other. The
historian Plutarch of Chaeronea, who
lived around 50-120 A.D., wrote of
"the sacred battalion" of Thebans
made up of 150 male homosexual
pairs. 74 In Sparta, all healthy male

children were taken into the army at
The Nazis' tendencies
towards homosexuality the age of 12, and were immediately
were inspired by the raped by experienced soldiers. It was
prevalence of it in believed that these perverted
ancient pagan societies,
especially in ancient relations were the greatest source of
Greece. This statue by strength for the Spartan army, with
Josef Thorak, called its "warrior" culture and passion for
Kameradschaft bloodshed.
(Friendship), reflects the
Nazis' idea of sexuality. Such a debased and deviant
culture raised its head again with the
neo-pagan movement of the 19th century. And, the major center of this