Minister works at combining sex and religion

Capital Times ^ | 3/12/2009 | Phil Haslanger

[Mr. Silverback]

and her realization that in the New Testament, Jesus was all about welcoming the people who had been marginalized for their sexual activity -- a woman at a dinner who washed his feet with her hair, a woman at a well who had had many lovers, a woman caught in the act of adultery.

Hey, Debbie, let me ask you about a couple of those women.

Why did the woman wash his feet with her hair? Because she was overjoyed that he had forgiven her sin. In other words, if the sin was sexual (the text doesn't say, does it Deb?) it needed to be forgiven and was a very drastic thing. That wouldn't fit very well with your theory about all sex being good with God, would it?

And what did he say to the woman caught in adultery? He said, "Go and sin no more." BTW, if you're counting Jesus' reaction to this woman as some sort of "sex positive" exercise, wouldn't that be implying that Jesus doesn't mind adultery all that much? And do you really think that the message the church was getting out of this passage for the last 2,000 years (before you came along to enlighten us) was "sex is bad?"

Debbie, did you know that almost every time you see the phrase "sexual immorality" in the New Testament the word in the original Greek text is "porneia?" Porneia is a Greek word meaning "sex outside of marriage." That would be heterosexual marriage, BTW. It doesn't mean "sex that involves pain and exploitation." So, if you are promoting sex outside of marriage as something God approves of heartily, are you on Jesus' side of this issue? Should you tell people that you are teaching what He taught?

[Mr. Silverback]

I’ll say guilty...but definitely better looking than most UU ministers, who generally look like Janeane Garofalo trying to go to a Halloween party as Ben Stein in drag.

[Mr. Silverback]

Did you hear about the Unitarian who married the Jehovah’s Witness?

Their kids spent all their time knocking on doors all over town, but they had no idea why...

[Mr. Silverback]

Dang, you beat me to it.

[Mr. Silverback]

I was concerned I was the only religious person who enjoys sex.

Another one over here. In fact, it keeps getting better...practice makes perfect, after all. ;-)

[Mr. Silverback]

LOL!

[brwnsuga]

I had an art teacher who lived on her own street she named Sappho Drive in Jacksonville FL who was also aUnitarian Universalist. She was a little wacky.

[Mr. Silverback]

I wonder which sex positive organization it was that came up with the term "Sex Negativity" to describe Christianity.

Obviously they don't understand that the only real sex negativity in Christianity is when your wife has a headache.

[SJackson]

PS the sex positive agenda groups are against abstinence not because it doesn't work but because they find it to be unhealthy, a denial of sexual desires, and they seek to see everyone sexual active at every age.

Good thing she didn't bring up the Israelite Zimri and the Moabite Cozbi. He got speared for his dalliance with an idolator.