Posted on 08/24/2018 10:41:00 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Pornography is single-handedly one of the worst epidemics facing the Evangelical church today. There are a myriad of other factors which appear to be eroding the Western church from the inside-out, yet Evangelicals scarcely address the root of the problem of pornography within the church. On the whole, human sexuality is undergoing an existential crisis. Yet the church is placed squarely in the midst of this crisis, often not even addressing its own underlying issues until far too late. Leader after leader (after leader!) disqualifies himself through sexual misconduct, all the while the name of Christ is slandered. Lest we focus on only Evangelical leaders though, sexual misconduct, including rampant use of porn, is very much present within the laity of the church.
We live in a culture that consumes pornography at the same rate as hamburgers – and we don’t see that as an absolutely terrifying trend...People have removed any purpose to sexuality other than pleasure. If we sense pornography does not facilitate this with abundant ease, we are naïve at best. If we sense the church has not bought into this lie, well, the statistics show otherwise.
We don’t see these things because we don’t properly understand humanity in terms of relation to God, but instead, we see it in terms of sexuality. One might be tempted to look at these things from a purely clinical perspective, but Scriptural precedent clearly establishes a direct correlation between all forms of sexual perversion and a hatred of God and our fellow man.
Yet Evangelical Christians are still participating in these deeds of darkness without much forethought to the long-term consequences. Here we stand, at the precipice of cultural, sexual anarchy, enjoying the same titillating nonsense this world so eagerly digests.
(Excerpt) Read more at patheos.com ...
“I’m still laughing at the guy who wanted to take away women’s tampons.”
Hand over those devil’s napkins, missy!
well i think he is waiting for Eisenhower to fix this for him.
Reminds me of my wacky mother who yelled at me in a grocery store when I brought her a package of sanitary napkins while she was looking for table napkins. I must have been 8 years old.
Probably Calvin Coolidge.
Unlike ethos and logos which are based in reality, Pathos is all about "feeeeling".
Used in a sentence "The toddler whine about having to use the potty was filled with Pathos"
I wonder how much porn Mollie Tibbits murderer was indulging in.
It’s Patheos, not pathos. It is a combo of path and God. And it is an online religious magazine. I get it on Facebook.
“single-handedly”?
One-hand keyboards.
“It has been my experience that men who regularly get “serviced” by the lady they love have little interest in porn.”
What about the other 95%?
“Christians do fine. We just stay away from organized “religion”.”
Amen.
Those who are proficient of playing sports do so. The remainder are spectators. Same principle with bedroom sports.
I admit I don’t belong on this thread so sorry for that right off, but how could you let your religion be “killed” by people’s sex practices? I thought our religions were here to help us through a world filled with good and evil, sin and saintliness?
How could porn be any worse than real life wrong sex practices? And that’s been going on since there were more than 2 people. Don’t let it hurt your religion. Didn’t Jesus hang with prostitutes, trying to raise up the sinners? Onward and upward.
“While single, I never met a woman my age who wasn’t interested in sex. Then I got married.”
That’s how you cure nymphomania.
Slowly killing marriage, relationships, and the global birth rate.
Who wants to take away our tampons?!
“Interesting: the writer stresses the error in equating celibacy and chasteness with “un-wholeness.”
Maybe it’s just me but I think it is interesting that the author may just be an eentsy, teensy wee bit “overly” lost in porn himself? Hmmm? ( The unctuos Jimmy Swaggart comes to mind.)
Its like taking wheat and sugar cane, which in and of themselves are okay, and then making a sickly, unhealthy jelly donut out of them.
Womankind can shut down the “industry” if they really wanted to but they wont. If half the passion promoted to abortion “rights” were applied to destroying porn, it would make an impact. Porn is an extension of Feminism so it is a value to the Feminist cause.
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