Captain Courage

[Leonardo17]

As I have said many times before. A superficial approach to spiritual issues will usually lead to greater mistakes on a personal level than someone who has decided to be an atheist or an agnostic.
 

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It is possible that the issue of sexual intercourse outside marriage is just another that has been understood only on a very superficial level.
 
The way I see sex is that it is what it is. It’s a rather compulsive bodily function that can be very enjoyable. The only problem is that it won’t solve all your problems, it won’t add meaning to your life if you feel like you are drafting, it won’t fulfill you greater / deeper spiritual quests etc.
 
The attachment of a negative / guilt element to sex is but a result of the previous Dark Age interpretation of religious texts because of some social / political necessities of that era.
 
And again: In the Quranic definition of Adultery (Ar. Zina): There are two persons who are having sex outside marriage + one person making profit from that.
 

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Now: I know there are people who cannot find a sexual partner because of physical and/or psychological issues and end up travelling to Amsterdam (or to Vegas if you like). But I can easily relate to the rule stated in the previous paragraph. Today we have what we call “ethics”. So no one needs to be this or that in order to be opposed to prostitution. It’s a matter of personal principle for most people. And I think it’s a rather positive thing for a religious teaching to be in the same page with normal basic level ethic principles.
 
N.B.: What you are talking about are the issues that have to do with anthropology and sociology more than religion.
 

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These are the taboo issues that have to be resolved in one way or the other. You know I am not a great fan of the veil for instance. That’s because there are now psychology seminars in which male participants stand up and apologies from female participants and tell them how much they love and respect them, than female participants are made to stand up and do the same to male participants.
 
If you just look at some xXx websites and some of the actions that are performed there, you can see the level of rupture that is present (mostly on a subconscious level) between the two sexes. These are all grown-up stuff I’m talking about, but the ways we treat the LGBT community is an indicator of our deeper unresolved sexual fears and misunderstandings.
 
So This “I own you” attitude is to be seen in this perspective. The veil is also a tool designed to reinforce this separation and misunderstanding and unloving attitude toward the opposite sex (I mean the way it is used today by political islamists).
 

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