I do not wonder why those who oppose God's moral laws on this issue use that line even though we would be hard pressed to find any religious fanatics today who think that sex is so bad. Indeed, God indeed made it so wonderful. In marriage, which is to provide the secure context for that vulnerable intimate physical and spiritual union. And for the normative natural result of this repeated union, that of children. Which the women is uniquely designed to produce and to mother. The Pill as well as Abortion along with the fornication and feminism that they much foster has overall had a very negative effect. And then there are homosexual relations, a capital sin in the OT.
But if by "wonderful" you were referring to pleasure, yes, God could have made matting painful, like it must be for some female insects who get violently hypodermically inseminated, but eating ice cream also is pleasurable, yet all such has its time and place and effects. And self-control is a virtue. As is sacrifice for a greater purpose.
"I also wonder why God even gave us a brain capable of free thought if, according to the religious fanatics, we’re not supposed to think freely."
Indeed, God gave us brains and brawn, palates and procreative organs, however, it is how you use them that matters, and which is determined by the "heart." You seem to reason that since God gave us such that then that means restrictions on the use of them is illogical and contrary to their purpose, but which is an example of "free thinking" that is fallacious reasoning.
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“God gave us such that then that means restrictions on the use of them is illogical and contrary to their purpose, but which is an example of “free thinking” that is fallacious reasoning.”
It is obvious that you have absolutely no comprehension/understanding of what I am saying. Probably a combination of myself not being eloquent enough to be clearer and you not able to think outside the box constructed for you by corrupt men self-proclaimed their holiness centuries ago and you continue to blindly believe todays corrupt “holy men”.
Those who do not think will believe anything because they remain willfully ignorant. I believe it is peopel like you, the religious fanatics, who are not using the brain God gave you the way he intended us to use them.
Have you ever pondered these questions:
If God is a perfect being and the human species was created in his image, then why are humans capable of doing such evil things?
Why did humans get a special brain unlike anyother of his creations?
Why is there in fact a special brain, and only one amongst Gods creations?
I highly doubt you ever have, because from the religious fanatic POV to ask or think about these types of questions is heresy; things that cannot even be thought about, thus the religious fanatic remains willfully ignorant as to why God gave us such a powerful brain.