(July 14, 2015 at 11:49 am)Redbeard The Pink Wrote:(July 14, 2015 at 11:26 am)MTL Wrote: I think there is a difference between:
- consenting to do something you don't really feel like doing,
for the sake of making someone you love, happy;
IE: A wife feels really exhausted and has a migraine,
but consents to...or even INITIATES...sex,
because she knows her husband is feeling a bit neglected and it will be a pleasant and well-timed surprise for him
VS
- being COERCED into any act,
that not only an act that you not want to do,
but for a person or purpose that you have no interest in doing it for;
IE submitting to sex without a fight, because someone put a gun to your head.
That's a very fair assessment. What's your opinion of situations where the wife is goaded into submitting using the god claim, though? What if the "someone she loves" that she's trying to make happy (or not piss off, more likely) is god? Is it right to use a person's faith to leverage sex against them?
Basically, what if the gun to their head is Hell?
I respect her choice to believe what she likes, even if I think it is sad and stupid that she believes such a thing;
but I hate the religion all the more for being the reason behind such evil;
and if the husband is the one using her religion as leverage against her, in order to get sex,
and I was his devout wife,
I'd be scouring that book for verses to make him do stuff he didn't want to do, either.
Sadly, most religions favour the man's advantage
and even excuses men doing all kinds of heinous things to women.
which is #643 in the Book Of Reasons Why I Hate Religion.
