Abrahamic religions are obsessed with sex

[Atheist_named_Christian]

We are all born of 'original sin'. Hence a lifetime of atonement.

Sounds like a whole lot of fun to me - No atonement necessary.

[fr0d0]

That is what I have been told by too many Christians to count for too many years to mention. Not all, of course, but yes... I have been told again and again that the 'apple' represented 'sex' and that once Adam and Eve... 'ate the apple'... that was the original sin. We are all born of 'original sin'. Hence a lifetime of atonement.

Wow

That beggars belief

[Edwardo Piet]

I always thought that pretty much every adult except for asexuals were obsessed with sex ??? ??? ?? ?

[Minimalist]

Abrahamic religions are obsessed with sex

Another way to look at it is that men are obsessed with sex and religion was created by men. That all of them mainly are used to oppress women cannot be a coincidence.

[downbeatplumb]

Abrahamic religions are obsessed with sex

Another way to look at it is that men are obsessed with sex and religion was created by men. That all of them mainly are used to oppress women cannot be a coincidence.

It could be.

[Godscreated]

That is what I have been told by too many Christians to count for too many years to mention. Not all, of course, but yes... I have been told again and again that the 'apple' represented 'sex' and that once Adam and Eve... 'ate the apple'... that was the original sin. We are all born of 'original sin'. Hence a lifetime of atonement.

Paul you should not take the words of a christisan as the truth without researching their statements first. Many christians repeat what they've heard from parents and others because they believe that as figures of authority they can't be wrong. I question things my pastor preaches and we'll discuss and study the question. I always go back and study what nonbelievers say about scripture.

Read Genesis 1:27-31 God instructs them to populate the earth before the fall.
Genesis 2:8-17 God tells Adam not to eat from the "tree of knowledge of good and evil" before He created Eve.

[Violet]

That is what I have been told by too many Christians to count for too many years to mention. Not all, of course, but yes... I have been told again and again that the 'apple' represented 'sex' and that once Adam and Eve... 'ate the apple'... that was the original sin. We are all born of 'original sin'. Hence a lifetime of atonement.

The apple was a fruit... any christian who thinks that fruit represents sex is probably desperate for some

[Minimalist]

you should not take the words of a christisan as the truth

That sentence just needs a period.


And you should probably learn how to spell christian.

[Loki_999]

Paul you should not take the words of a Christian as the truth without researching their statements first. Many Christians repeat what they've heard from parents and others because they believe that as figures of authority they can't be wrong. I question things my pastor preaches and we'll discuss and study the question. I always go back and study what nonbelievers say about scripture.

Great statement. I generally do not take the words of Christians as truth.

But you hit the nail on the head regarding repeating what they have heard. Amazing how many haven't really read the bible, or only read selected parts... and going back in time, well, i'm pretty sure that a majority of the books were not first hand accounts, especially the OT. These were all probably based on oral traditions (the Jewish religion even has a lot of its beliefs founded in oral traditions) so saying that the bible contains the truth is a bit like expecting a message to come through a game of broken telephone.

As for studying the scripture... you know you can really read whatever you want to read in the bible. There are verses that support almost any position. Need a justification to kill someone? Go and look in the OT... many references to god killing people or commanding they be killed for any number or reasons.

[Paul the Human]

I didn't say I believe the apple represented sex, I said that that's what I have been told by many Christians. It is what they believe. Personally, I don't believe any of it is anything more than a badly written fairytale, but I am well aware that the bible doesn't say the apple represented sex (I have read it thoroughly). The fact that so many Christians (in America) have reinterpreted the story this way is an example of how believers pick and choose until they find the message that they want to find.

It's true that most Christians I know have not actually read the bible cover to cover even once. They have read the specific passages that their priest/pastor/reverend has told them to read and interpret them to mean what their priest/pastor/reverend tell them it means. It's cultish behavior, plain and simple.