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"The Lord’s My Sex Guru" Pious Perverts and the Twisted World of Religious Sexual Repression
Evangelicals are penning sex manuals. The purity movement oddballs are on the move. It's all deeply disturbing.
The problem with accepting God as sex guru comes from His character and the alleged nature of His omniscient, omnipresent surveillance of us, which doesn’t exactly accord with any concept of healthy sexual expression. For starters, the Bible informs us that God “our Father” knows our thoughts and our hearts, and what we do everywhere and at all times. So it follows that God our Father is in the bedroom with us. From all the condemnatory biblical injunctions concerning sex, we know He’s an avid, censorious voyeur of our amorous exertions. Not very arousing, that.
To make this more vivid: How would you feel if you knew your own father was not only watching you make love but monitoring your fantasies as you do so? What if he were also evaluating you as a candidate for everlasting punishment? What if he happened to be jealous, cruel and vindictive, and always – always! – on your case? Would you feel comfortable having sex in his presence and seeking his sex advice?
And what about women, in particular? Let’s not forget that God the Father treats His “daughters” with wanton cruelty. He assigns them to men as property (Exodus 20:17). He created them innately “unclean,” or they become so once a month, and doubly so if they shamefully happen to give birth to girls (Leviticus 12:1-8). He forces them to undergo the agonies of childbirth as punishment for listening to a talking snake (Genesis 3:16). They can join their sisters in a man’s multitudinous concubinage (1 Kings: 11:3) or be one of his many wives, but not have more than one husband themselves. Their biological fathers can sell them into sex slavery (Exodus 21:7). They can be won as war booty (Numbers 31:17-18). Their word means nothing unless male relatives back them up (Numbers 30:1-16). They have to keep their mouths shut in church (1 Corinthians 14:34), obey their husbands (Colossians 3:18), and have no right to teach them anything (1 Timothy 2:11-12).
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