Sex and God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
Darrel W. Ray
Language: English
Pages: 262
ISBN: B00XV3ZTC2
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Why are all the major religions consumed with sex? What makes sex so important, whether Buddhism or Islam, Christianity or Mormonism? What is the impact of religion on human sexuality? This book explores this and more. It ventures into territory that has never been examined. You will be surprised at how much religion has influenced your sexuality, who you marry, the pleasure you get or don't get from sex, and what you can do about it.
what Christians believe today. The Ante-Nicene Fathers include Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian and others. 19 Jesus does discuss eunuchs and seems to say that making oneself a eunuch is a good idea, if you can do it: “For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can” (Matthew
John 14:28 “Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.” 24 Mark 6:3, “‘Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?’” And they took offense at him.” No less than five other scriptures refer to Jesus’ siblings: Matthew 12:46; John 2:12; John 7:3; Acts 1:14; and Galatians 1:19. 25
skill level of religious newly-weds and newly-weds raised in a secular environment. The former are often groping in the dark, sometimes literally. Even if they do have some experience or skill with regard to sex and sexuality, they are often reluctant to display it for fear of giving away previous sexual experience. The abstinence-only programs and reclaimed-virginity movement make men and women ashamed of being sexual creatures before or outside of marriage. For a woman, the result is denial
BCE to 100 BCE, but it continued to be a significant influence for another five hundred years. About the same time, Buddhism began in the East and spread rapidly, its universal message often replacing tribal religions wherever it went. With Christianity in the first century and Islam in the seventh, universal religion became a permanent part of Western culture. Local custom and practice was superseded by the idea that a single god created humans with one sexual style. Obedience to that god meant
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