Glaswegian
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The merest glance at the history of religion will provide you with many examples of religious behaviour in which the operation of the sex instinct is so obvious as to be naked.
For example, during the Witch Holocaust in pre-Enlightenment Europe, the Christian Church set up ecclesiastical tribunals to deal with individuals accused of witchcraft and filled them with men whose faith in their religion was regarded as beyond reproach. These devout Churchmen were extremely diligent in their investigation of those charged with witchcraft, especially when the accused was a woman or girl of 'pleasing appearance'. In these cases, the Churchmen were so diligent that they often insisted on discovering - or to put it more pertinently in this context - uncovering evidence of witchcraft for themselves. This 'hands on approach' by the Churchmen involved their personally undertaking detailed and thorough examinations of the naked bodies of these attractive females for 'marks of the Devil' (e.g., moles, boils, unusual birthmarks, and blemishes of every sort). In the eyes of the Churchmen, the sanctity of God and the protection of the Christian faith also required the repeated insertion of their devout fingers into female orifices for the detection of warts and other 'sinister' cutaneous excrescences, and in some instances even the smelling and tasting of these orifices for 'infernal odours and secretions'....
I'm sure everyone would agree that in the foregoing example the sex instinct can be easily seen manifesting itself in the behaviour of the Churchmen in a lurid way.
For example, during the Witch Holocaust in pre-Enlightenment Europe, the Christian Church set up ecclesiastical tribunals to deal with individuals accused of witchcraft and filled them with men whose faith in their religion was regarded as beyond reproach. These devout Churchmen were extremely diligent in their investigation of those charged with witchcraft, especially when the accused was a woman or girl of 'pleasing appearance'. In these cases, the Churchmen were so diligent that they often insisted on discovering - or to put it more pertinently in this context - uncovering evidence of witchcraft for themselves. This 'hands on approach' by the Churchmen involved their personally undertaking detailed and thorough examinations of the naked bodies of these attractive females for 'marks of the Devil' (e.g., moles, boils, unusual birthmarks, and blemishes of every sort). In the eyes of the Churchmen, the sanctity of God and the protection of the Christian faith also required the repeated insertion of their devout fingers into female orifices for the detection of warts and other 'sinister' cutaneous excrescences, and in some instances even the smelling and tasting of these orifices for 'infernal odours and secretions'....
I'm sure everyone would agree that in the foregoing example the sex instinct can be easily seen manifesting itself in the behaviour of the Churchmen in a lurid way.
