RE: Why do the Christians always hate sex so much?
August 28, 2012 at 6:19 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2012 at 6:21 pm by Cyberman.)
What Min said, plus just a dash of Ciel_Rouge. My take on it stems from the way the xtian religion was used as a means of socio-political control especially during the period popularly known as The Dark Age. I've said this before and often around the board, but in a nutshell: in a feudalistic society, the minority ruling élite needs some method to prevent the unwashed majority from making the connection between just how much hard graft and shit they are forced to endure just to be allowed to survive and all that wealth and fine food with which their leaders seem to be blessed. The most effective way in such a time of superstition, mythology and magic would have been to warn of the dangers of lusting after such material things and that the reward for a lifetime of shit is glory in some Shangri-La in the sky - coincidentally after you're dead and can't answer back. Essentially, sin is human nature, criminalised.
As I see it in such a scenario, the demonisation of sinful pleasures such as sex is all wrapped up in keeping the populace hard at work providing for your table and your tax coffers; after all, if the peasants are spending all their time shagging themselves senseless, beyond maintaining the population of course, who's going to work the land and keep you in the manner to which you're accustomed? They might just become doscontented with their lot - and don't those ploughshares look sharp...
As I see it in such a scenario, the demonisation of sinful pleasures such as sex is all wrapped up in keeping the populace hard at work providing for your table and your tax coffers; after all, if the peasants are spending all their time shagging themselves senseless, beyond maintaining the population of course, who's going to work the land and keep you in the manner to which you're accustomed? They might just become doscontented with their lot - and don't those ploughshares look sharp...
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'