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I’m a nerd. I skipped church this last week (if I were Catholic I think that would be another few years in purgatory) and decided to sleep in – and I didn’t feel bad about it. Jesus loves me this I know…
So I was flipping through the channels later that day and ran into a very obnoxious, very over-the-top preacher who was spouting off on the topic of sexual purity. I stopped. The man was talking (or should I say shouting) about a lot of things I agree with: abstinence, the sacredness of marriage, and a lot of other topics dealing with sexual purity. The sermon got me thinking about lot more than just things I believe in, what is all of this talk doing to Christian marriages?
For one thing, sex isn’t talked about in Churches unless the message is “don’t do it or you’ll probably end up pregnant or with AIDS.” That was a little extreme, but in all seriousness it’s almost that bad. Children who grow up in the church are sheltered; those who stick close to the faith are sometimes scared into thinking that sex is sinful and dirty, and those thoughts continue on into marriage.
I’m wondering if a lot of Christian husbands and wives have boring sex lives? I know that I don’t want my marriage to be boring because of what preachers have scared into people.
Crap…our van broke down. More to come later.
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September 17, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Hmmm, I doubt that the over-zealousness of preachers/preists/etc. has baring on what happens behind closed doors in a marriage. Or maybe I’m just too knowledgeable about the ‘non-churched’ than the hard-core churched… o.O
I donno… all I have to say is that in educating youngsters in the area of sex (specifically pre-martial sex) that a good dose of reality is key since I don’t think that the ’scare’ tacitic works. I think that by giving the youngsters the WHOLE truth about it will help. Not just a “if you have sex, you’ll be pregnant…” speech. I mean, it IS a very REAL consequence, but I think that youngesters should know all the conquences, risks, and options available (as well as safe methods to minimize those risks) and then allow them to be adults. And if they’re stupid enough to have unprotected sex and they get numerous life-long STDs and a child from it… then that was their decision. imo, if you want to avoid the conquences, avoid the action…
When it boils down to it, you can’t save them from themselves…
October 30, 2006 at 9:25 am
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