There may be cases in which the mechanism ‘Dr. Laura’ proposes is at work, but I think in general men who cheat on their wives are just lizards. (It’s called the ‘Fall of Man’: humanity having made ourselves more like the brute beasts, subject to irrational passions, rather than ruling over them, through disobedience to God’s command.)
>>There may be cases in which the mechanism ‘Dr. Laura’ proposes is at work, but I think in general men who cheat on their wives are just lizards. (It’s called the ‘Fall of Man’: humanity having made ourselves more like the brute beasts, subject to irrational passions, rather than ruling over them, through disobedience to God’s command.)<<
Yeah, I think that pretty much nails it, generally speaking.
I do remember in the couples class at my old church that the women would really squirm when the verses about your body not being yours but your husbands was pointed out. Some of the women vociferously disagreed with the teachers simple explanation of a simple concept. It was very telling. What was even more interesting was that the husbands of every one of the “more verbal” of these women was obviously and totally “whipped”.
Almost as interesting was how the men in the class reacted differently when the verses that applied to how to treat their wives were pointed out. After all, from a mans perspective, if the bible says the sky was blue, it probably means the sky was blue. ‘Nuff said.