RE: The Struggle to do Good
May 31, 2020 at 3:34 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2020 at 3:34 am by Fake Messiah.)
(May 30, 2020 at 9:37 pm)brokenreflector Wrote: If societal pressures or my upbringing did not produce this urge, then what or who produced it?
Why do you think there aren't societal pressures to make you feel ashamed for your masturbation? Because society is full of Christian censors who affect people even if they are not Christians. I mean just take movies which are under MPAA which was preceded by the Catholic League of Decency and they can implant in you various Christian taboos like that female body is shameful and not to mention masturbation. For instance, in the documentary "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" Kevin Smith says how in the movie "Jersey Girl" there was a scene where Liv Tyler' Character mentions how she masturbates two times a day and that MPAA slapped R rating on the movie so he had to remove that scene from a movie because they want to send the message to the public how "decent people don't do that."
So there are stigmas in the society that flow from religions.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
