Lan Barnes wrote:
On Mon, March 26, 2007 9:38 am, Paul G. Allen wrote:
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 23:45 -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Gabriel Sechan wrote:
Sexually repressed?
Or, the king of them all, celibate priests.
Which is a perversion (by the Catholic church I believe, but maybe it
began outside of the Catholic church) of what Paul told the churches (to
be specific, I believe it was in his letter to the Corinthians, or the
church of Corinth). Christ and God never said the head of a church can't
have sex or be married. He said the head of a church should devote all
his time to the church. He also said that if he has (to say it nicely)
human needs, he should get married.
Christianity as a whole does not teach celibacy.
Again ... yes it does. It teaches celibacy (and abstinence only and sex as
the original sin) in among all the other stuff it teaches. It also tries
to force it down everyone else's throat (deep throats, one imagines)
through blue laws, zoning, "voluntary" censorship, school boards, and,
when all else fails, picketing and harrassment.
You don't know as much about Christianity as you think you do.
1) It does *not* teach "celibacy".
2) It does *not* teach "abstinence only".
3) It does *not* teach "sex as the original sin".
4) I doubt any of the "all the other stuff [you think] it teaches".
Where are you getting your dis-information, Lan? (Or are you just
making it up as you go?)
Christianity (and the Bible) *does* teach sexual abstinence outside the
bounds of matrimony.
Christianity (and the Bible) teaches *pride* as the "original sin".
Detractors of Christianity have suggested that prostitution was the
original sin, but the Bible does not support this, nor do Christians
teach it.
Paul encouraged a single person to stay that way so that he (or she)
could devote himself completely to serving Jesus in spreading the
gospel. Paul knew (and stated) that the married couple, by necessity,
must devote a great deal of their focus and effort their family. Even
this, he did *not* frown upon. He just felt a focus on spreading the
gospel was better.
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