[Tax-chick]

This reminds me of a passage from G.K. Chesterton's St. Francis of Assisi, in which the author observes that the pagan world had entirely corrupted sex, to the extent that the concept of the permanent, exclusive, and life-giving relationship of a man and woman was lost. He wrote that the period of the "Dark Ages," from the end of the Roman Empire until the flowering of European Christendom, post-A.D. 1000, was like a continent-wide purging and penance.

It was, he said, as if the Church went into a cave, like St. Benedict, and fasted and prayed and scourged itself, until finally they emerged with clean flesh and pure hearts. They could look at stars and see lights placed by God, not frolicking pagan deities. They could look at a garden without ever thinking of Ovid's Metamorphoses. They could enjoy music without remembering bacchanalia or satyrs' revels.

Chesterton said it better, of course, but I'm sure you get the point. I think this will have to happen again ... a conscious rejection of "this we have now," until men and women love children more than they love their genital pleasure, until people can have clean bodies, minds, and hearts again.

[steve86]

Outstanding comment.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Well stated, and from your own loving and far-sighted heart. Amen.

[savagesusie]

G.K Chesterton was incredibly wise! Is it a wonder “why” no one who graduates from the public “school” systems have even heard of him, much less read a word he wrote.

Here is one of my favorite quotes by him:

“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.”

[steve86]

Chesterton said it better, of course, but I'm sure you get the point.

I don't know, chick, the consensus at my house is that you got it better, at least for the Reader's Digest Condensed Version.