Why does God hate sex?

[Arcade22]

What the hell does God have against sex??

The Christian god, and then necessarily Christians, hates man and in what other way can you harm man to such a degree without attacking and destroy our sexuality?

 

[Mark6]

Rofl, a Christian friend once came to me and told me he saw a comedian ask a funny question and he said he thought of me; "What does an atheist cry out during climax?"
Of course my first question was, "Why are you contemplating my orgasms?" But my answer to the original question was,"I usually yell out, 'honey, wake up, I'm almost there."

Once I had a Wiccan girlfriend cry out "Jesus!"

I told her "Don't you know you are not supposed to swear by other people's deities?"

She did not think it was very funny.

 

[sgtbaker]

Once I had a Wiccan girlfriend cry out "Jesus!"

I told her "Don't you know you are not supposed to swear by other people's deities?"

She did not think it was very funny.

How is that not funny? Oh for Isis sake, I wish those darn Wiccan's would just get a sense of humor!

 

[Radrook]

Paul Bethke chronology places mankind's creation at exactly 5770 years ago. So what?

So not everyone agrees with your 180,000 year period of being without guidence.

Of course it's not. It's all about profit and power. It's not useful to anything except itself. On the contrary, it's quite harmful. Your take?

Not my take.
Basic sociology teaches otherwise.

 

[shadron]

Why? There are practical social reasons. Sex outside wedlock produces children unprotected by the llaws of heredity. It encourages irresponsibility of those who only want a good time but are unwilling to answer for the consequences by mannng up. It increases the likelihood of STD incidences. It tends to disrupt family unity via the creation of jealosies.

Makes you wonder what we did for the preceding 198,000 years, without any sexual guidance, laws of heredity, and irresponsible guys not manning up, doesn't it? And STDs and jealousy, of course. Society has only our best interests at heart, isn't that so?

Biblical chronology places mankind's creation at approx 6000 years ago.

Well, that sure did shoot down my hypothesis, doesn't it? So it left man on the lurch for only the first 3400 years (from, say, BCE 600). How on Earth did Noah know what was righteous?

Yes, I agree that society is, on the main, a good thing. I also think that laws which may seem right and proper at the time tend to ossify with age, particularly when the law-maintainers loose sight of the reasons and just follow the forms, especially when the maintainers find they can advance themselves over the rabble by a little judicious over-stepping and rigidity.

That can happen and has happened. Yet laws or principles can't be judged on that basis alone. In fact, how humans misuse a good law for their own profit is totally irrelevant to that law's appropriateness or value top interpersonal and societal well-being.

But it is still unargued that the laws "age" as society advances, and can often run afoul of their own good intentions as applied to unforeseen circumstance. What may have been appropriate for itinerant herders probably won't work for city dwellers. We do have the legal institutions to handle divorce (they even had that in the middle ages), and the medical to handle out-of-wedlock sex.

But I am glad we're recognizing societal needs here and not appealing to the "needs" of a god or religion. Society is bad enough about useless traditions; religion makes it much worse.

The twain need not be mutually exclusive. As for uselessness, that's not the official sociological view of religion as an institution.

Official? Who's official? I'm sure we can find a whole spectrum of opinions on that, within sociology. That fact that religion, in our society has to rant to regain a bunch of it's lost ground in civil (marital) affairs indicates to me its usefulness.

 

[Radrook]

Here's another one: it's ridiculous ******** made up by primitive men.

How can the author of the articler be a primitive man? Are you saying he is a throwback? LOL!

 

[Radrook]

Abraham Rihbany (The Syrian Christ, 65), a native of the East early last century, bore with some patience the misinterpretations of modern Westerners (he named Robert Ingersoll particularly) who read the Bible through their eyes and tastes and missed certain points about what was being said and done. The particular instance of John 21:20 represents a custom "in perfect harmony with Syrian customs. How often have I seen men friends in such an attitude. There is not the slightest infringement of the rules of propriety; the act was as natural to us all as shaking hands. The practice is especially indulged in when intimate friends are about to part from one another, as on the eve of a journey, or when about the face a dangerous undertaking. Then they sit with their heads leaning against each other, or the one's head resting upon the other's shoulder or breast."
By the same token, Easterners will use "terms of unbounded intimacy and unrestrained affection" to one another: "my soul," "my eyes," "my heart." Paul's holy kiss (Rom. 16:16, etc) is no more of a homosexual exchange.
http://www.tektonics.org/gk/gaydavid.html

Which goes to show how looking at things without taking historical and cultural backround into account along with wishful thinking can lead to wild unfounded conclusions. In reference to Jonathan and David, that is.

 

[laca]

So not everyone agrees with your 180,000 year period of being without guidence.

I don't really care about your deluded, ignorant opinion. Where does the evidence point?

Not my take.
Basic sociology teaches otherwise.

Care to summarize?

 

[laca]

How can the author of the articler be a primitive man? Are you saying he is a throwback? LOL!

Oh-kay. Let's see the context...

Here is an explanation to that passage:
http://lavistachurchofchrist.org/LVarticles/Exodus42426.html

Here's another one: it's ridiculous ******** made up by primitive men.

It is fairly obvious that I was referring to another explanation of the bible passage, and not the article. Reading comprehension: FAIL.

 

[Third Eye Open]

God hates entertainment. Anything that distracts you from talking about how great he is. Video games, dancing, music that's not about him, sex, masturbation, television and books that aren't about him, etc.

 

[sgtbaker]

Anyone else have Disciple from Slayer stuck in their head since they first read this thread?

God hates us all! God hates us all!

 

[Sledge]

God is Chaotic Evil. Once you accept that, everything else makes sense.

 

[Alan]

I didn't see Radrook address this:

So you have no problem with safe gay sex.

 

[Radrook]

Oh-kay. Let's see the context...

The context is the whole cultural background in which the text was written which helps the informed reader not to reach ridiculous conclusions.

It is fairly obvious that I was referring to another explanation of the bible passage, and not the article. Reading comprehension: FAIL.

Sorry.
Which explanation were you referring to?

 

[Radrook]

I didn't see Radrook address this:

That's irrelevant to the discussion. Each person lives his short limited life on this earth in the manner he or she prefers. At the end,the Bible tells us that each must render accounts to God-not to man.


Of course atheists don't worry about rendering accounts to anyone but themselves. That too is their personal choice. So I really don't see what if anything I have to do with these choices.

 

[Radrook]

God hates entertainment. Anything that distracts you from talking about how great he is. Video games, dancing, music that's not about him, sex, masturbation, television and books that aren't about him, etc.

Really? You don't say!

Proverbs 5:


15 Drink water from your own cistern,
running water from your own well.

16 Should your springs overflow in the streets,
your streams of water in the public squares?

17 Let them be yours alone,
never to be shared with strangers.

18 May your fountain be blessed,
and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

19 A loving doe, a graceful deer—
may her breasts satisfy you always,
may you ever be captivated by her love.

 

[Complexity]

Radrook can't answer me, so he's pretending I don't exist.

'LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA'

 

[RSLancastr]

This is also, as I understand it, the Jewish attitude.

...as long as you don't have sex while standing...

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Because it can lead to dancing!

 

[rorylee]

Once I had a Wiccan girlfriend cry out "Jesus!"

I told her "Don't you know you are not supposed to swear by other people's deities?"

She did not think it was very funny.

they all call out God and Jesus at some stage in their life, if not everytime!! maybe thats why they are so heavy on it too

 

[rorylee]

a question for the ladies here, if you had a chance to sleep with Jesus/slash God, holy spirit.. would you say no?