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Your desperation is showing.Why are pagans so Sexually......ummm....well...I don't even have the word for this:
The dark side of sexual freedom: American 'zoophiles' take on the language of equality Telegraph Blogs
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Your desperation is showing.Why are pagans so Sexually......ummm....well...I don't even have the word for this:
The dark side of sexual freedom: American 'zoophiles' take on the language of equality Telegraph Blogs
Is insecurity really such a bad thing all the time?
Don't most people feel uncertain and possibly terrified the first time they had sex? Or does that somehow only apply to those who wait til they're married?
Just to clarify - "sexually loose" does not necessarily equate to "sexually secure." In fact, it's often quite the opposite scenario.
And throughout all my adventures, I've met some non Christians who are just as "hung up" (as opposed to h...oh never mind...!), and full of sexual anxiety.
I think it's a large stretch - and probably an unprovable charge - to claim that most Christian, or Christians in general, are sexually insecure, or more sexually insecure than non Christians.
Source please.
Of course everyone is insecure their first time. I was referring specifically to those people intensely insecure about their own natural urges. They're either taught to hate those urges or feel extremely guilty for even having them to begin with. It's not just simple uncertainty or apprehension, but an unhealthy distrust and disgust with one's one body. Fortunately most people, including many Christians, don't have this issue.
I'm not sure what Christian church you grew up in but in my 34 years, this was not true of any of the churches I attended. People were taught to control their urges and be discreet but that's hardly equal to hating them or feelings of extreme guilt.
However, when those feelings are abused or used incorrectly, then yes there is guilt, as well there should be b/c it is sin and we should feel guilty when we sin until we ask forgiveness. But again, teaching one how to have control or be discreet, is not akin to hatred or unnecessary guilt. (And by control I mean similar to me teaching my child to hold her tongue instead of saying every little thing that enters her mind, to think before she speaks and have control over her words/thoughts/actions).
I tend to see it falling into the category of "there is a time and a place" - what people differ on is the "time & place"
You misunderstood. I didn't say that "sexually-loose" was healthy. I was contrasting it with the opposite position of extreme sexual repression that is just as harmful. I advocate moderation, compassion, and humility in practice and I also did state that many Christians are perfectly healthy in their sexuality so we cannot really generalize.
Now do you have something that includes the rest of the country outside of Hamilton County Tennessee?First Things First: Out of Wedlock Pregnancy Fact Sheet
Boys born to teen mothers are 2.7 times more likely to end up behind bars than their peers born within a marriage. Maynard, Kids Having Kids
Studies indicate that more than 70 percent of juveniles in state reform institutions come from fatherless homes. Jennifer E. Marshall, Sanctioning Illegitimacy: Our National Character Is at Stake, Family Research Council. 3/28/97
In Tennessee only 17.0 percent of the children referred to juvenile court in 1995 were from two parent homes. For African Americans, only 9.8 percent of these children have both parents at home. Tennessee Kids Count
It is estimated that a 10 percent increase in illegitimacy rates leads to a 17 percent increase in serious violent crime. Social Breakdown in America
Construction and maintenance of prisons to house the increasing number of criminals due to teen pregnancies costs about $1 billion. Maynard, Kids Having Kids
The link provided above is just one of many places to find these stats. If you do an internet search with words such as "unwed" "parents" "children" "crime" you'll see more evidence than you'll have time to read.
Now do you have something that includes the rest of the country outside of Hamilton County Tennessee?
Do you have any evidence that the marriages referred to in these cherry picked statistics were church weddings rather than secular ones?"Only 13 percent of juvenile delinquents come from families in which the biological mother and father are married to each other. By contract, 33 percent have parents who are either divorced or separated and 44 percent have parents who were never married."
Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Health and Social Services, April 1994.
Perhaps you can see that maybe God wasn't smoking crack when he demanded sex be used only in a certain context.
"Only 13 percent of juvenile delinquents come from families in which the biological mother and father are married to each other. By contract, 33 percent have parents who are either divorced or separated and 44 percent have parents who were never married."
Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Health and Social Services, April 1994.
Facts on Fatherless Kids
Perhaps you can see that maybe God wasn't smoking crack when he demanded sex be used only in a certain context.
Perhaps you can see that maybe God wasn't smoking crack when he demanded sex be used only in a certain context.
I wonder what God intended for the act prior to the invention of the institution of marriage?
There was nothing, God created the institution of marriage with Adam & Eve
So your claim is that having sex indicates that they were married?Genesis 4:1 "Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man.""
Genesis doesn't chronicle the wedding ceremony but it makes clear they were married
Sorry but the only thing that is made clear in that text is that they had sex.Genesis 4:1 "Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man.""
Genesis doesn't chronicle the wedding ceremony but it makes clear they were married
Sorry but the only thing that is made clear in that text is that they had sex.