(October 23, 2021 at 7:58 pm)Nomad Wrote:(October 20, 2021 at 6:36 am)Ten Wrote: Boru brought up a good point in the Gay thread and I thought we could dive deeper with the question as the actual focus.
Why does god care about our genitals so much?
It's one of the things that really influenced my incredulity and atheism that a god would be so focused on our genitals and what we're doing with them. I know in Mormonism, the focus on sexual purity and repression is part of the BITE model programming for the cult(sex being such a natural part of being human, you can influence and control people by making them feel guilt and shame around this natural instinct they'll never be free from) and a core part of the doctrine(you can't have trans or gay folks because the model for the planetary rewards in the afterlife is Adam and 5+ Eves; The harem god factory doesn't work with Adam and 5+ Steves or if Eve was assigned male at birth, although it'd probably be more fun to run around an empty planet with a bunch of very gay god sex happening). So, I understand for that religious cult why they focus on genitals so much.
But why does god have this focus in other religions?
Christianity is obsessed with sex for the same reason as Big Brother obsessed about it.
I don't understand. Big brother is simply voyerism as far as I could tell from that few minutes I once watched it. That set bar for me. I do not watch any form of so-called 'reality television' because there's no such thing and because it embarrasses me to see people humiliated.
It's my position that the christian churches (at least) are preoccupied with sex because it's a powerful form of social control. The church has always been about control and guilt.