(October 25, 2012 at 4:30 pm)festive1 Wrote: I've never understood the idea of being devout equating to denying one's humanity. Sexuality, in particular, comes to mind. The idea if god created us perfectly, and gave us sexual urges, but then said these were bad things that we should resist, has never made a damn bit of sense to me. If we were created perfectly then sexuality is perfect as well.
Well, Islam never said not to have sex. It simply said to have it in marriage. And it said not to marry fornicators (defined as those whom regularly have sex outside marriage and didn't repent and stop).
Back in the day, it was common for young men and young women to get married.
Now it's harder. You have to get education, then good job, get established, then finally a father will let you marry his daughter.
To be fair, there wasn't anything to prevent kids from being born back in the day right?
So sex outside marriage can mean some kids without a father to take care of them. And that's not really good for the kids.
Now we have tools to stop that.
