RE: Stifling Joy!
June 17, 2014 at 1:56 am
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2014 at 1:57 am by Jenny A.)
(June 16, 2014 at 1:32 pm)alpha male Wrote:(June 15, 2014 at 11:37 pm)Jenny A Wrote: The Judeo-Christian god, especially the Christian one seems to be against many forms of harmless human enjoyment---sex being at the top of the list of things we oughtn't enjoy.No, the Christian god invented sex and wants us to enjoy it within the bounds of marriage. Paul specifically says that married people should have sex regularly.
ETA: Read Song of Solomon, or at least the wiki entry on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Songs
Quote: ...it celebrates sexual love. It gives "the voices of two lovers, praising each other, yearning for each other, proffering invitations to enjoy". The two are in harmony, each desiring the other and rejoicing in sexual intimacy; the women (or "daughters") of Jerusalem form a chorus to the lovers, functioning as an audience whose participation in the lovers' erotic encounters facilitates the participation of the reader.
I'm not really concerned about what the Christians SHOULD think based on scripture. You can argue that up down and sideways and Christians do and reach very different conclusions too. I'm concerned about how some of them do think now and in the past. My story was not about ideal "good" Christianity. My story was about main stream Christianity at the time Mom was growing up and Christianity as it is taught by some Evangelical Churches today.
What is it about sex?
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
