I don't really like strip clubs. I don't judge those who work there, nor pity them, except for those who took on that career out of the desperation of poverty (but then, what job can't be described that way?) or who are drug addicts getting sucked deeper into that world. The reason I don't like them is I see them for what they are: we have made sex and especially female nudity a taboo thing, in this Christian-influenced culture, and as such it produces a tantalizing effect on those who see it as the untouchable thing just out of reach. Me, I don't see the subject as taboo, and I don't get excited by women I am not actually intimate with; also, I see the women in the job as they really are, I know a few women who do that job, I've listened to what they told me, and so I don't fall for the fantasy. Therefore it is not a "temptation" to me.
Perhaps it is the fact that I don't see it as a "sin" that makes it neither appealing nor a threat to me. Likewise, the only thing about Christianity that bothers me is the threat that it represents to me, both in terms of attempts to legislate their beliefs into law and/or a position of dominance (see e.g. 1954, with the Pledge and the Motto, or the National Day of Prayer ceremonies), and in terms of their "doctrine of alienation", in which they teach their followers to turn off their brains to any outside influence (cult, much?) and to separate from anyone, even family and loved ones, who might tell them they're in that cult religion for poor reasons.
Perhaps it is the fact that I don't see it as a "sin" that makes it neither appealing nor a threat to me. Likewise, the only thing about Christianity that bothers me is the threat that it represents to me, both in terms of attempts to legislate their beliefs into law and/or a position of dominance (see e.g. 1954, with the Pledge and the Motto, or the National Day of Prayer ceremonies), and in terms of their "doctrine of alienation", in which they teach their followers to turn off their brains to any outside influence (cult, much?) and to separate from anyone, even family and loved ones, who might tell them they're in that cult religion for poor reasons.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
