RE: Why do the Christians always hate sex so much?
August 28, 2012 at 1:54 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2012 at 1:55 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
I don't think very many Christians "hate" sex anymore. They just don't like it outside marriage (or pretend not to like it).
Most of the Christian's ideas about sex, marriage, homosexuality, don't seem to really come from the "bible" when it's read in its proper historical context. Most of the passages Christians cite against homosexuality don't seem to be actually against homosexuality per se but rather things like pedestry or certain cultic practices.
There isn't a single verse in the bible against masturbation. Nor is there one against "lust" or erotic materials, though many misread matt 5:28 to imply that it is against those things when it seems to be actually condemning men thinking about committing adultery.
The things I said above aren't certain though. Some are more probable understandings of biblical sexual ethics but its not entirely clear. And given that the bible is a human document made over thousands of years, its sexual ethic is not consistent.
But of course, fundamentalist Christians can't accept uncertainty about the meaning of verses, nor inconsistency, so they will continue to use the bible as their ventriloquist dummy.
Most of the Christian's ideas about sex, marriage, homosexuality, don't seem to really come from the "bible" when it's read in its proper historical context. Most of the passages Christians cite against homosexuality don't seem to be actually against homosexuality per se but rather things like pedestry or certain cultic practices.
There isn't a single verse in the bible against masturbation. Nor is there one against "lust" or erotic materials, though many misread matt 5:28 to imply that it is against those things when it seems to be actually condemning men thinking about committing adultery.
The things I said above aren't certain though. Some are more probable understandings of biblical sexual ethics but its not entirely clear. And given that the bible is a human document made over thousands of years, its sexual ethic is not consistent.
But of course, fundamentalist Christians can't accept uncertainty about the meaning of verses, nor inconsistency, so they will continue to use the bible as their ventriloquist dummy.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
