Ah. This completely explains your FR oeuvre.
Well, doubting in and of itself is hardly a crime.
John 20:24-29 --
Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord."
So he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe."
And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace to you!" Then He said to Thomas, "Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing."
And Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"
Jesus said to him, "Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
However, when doubt is used as a weapon against God, that is something else entirely. I mean, not only is the Book of Job one of the oldest written records of mankind in general -- so we can't tell God we never got around to reading it -- but the Gospels provides numerous examples of people not using doubt as a tool...
When Judas betrayed Christ, Peter and John and the others didn't say, "Judas, your hypocrisy make me doubt my faith..."
When Peter denied Christ, John and the others didn't say, "Pete, your cowardice makes me doubt my faith..."
When Thomas doubted the Risen Lord, Peter and John and the others didn't say, "Tom, your cynicism makes me doubt my faith..." Christ Himself didn't hold Thomas's doubting against him (but He did get in that dig about him needing to see for himself...).
Doubt may be explain LBDSM body of work. But that would be depressing because I'm sure she'd see that doubt-as-a-crutch isn't cool
I'm inclined to think there is a much simpler focus to LBDSM's work. In a book called "The Devils of Loudun," by Aldous Huxley -- a book about some rowdy French girls [!], Huxley makes the point that in every woman, there is not only the spirit of the Eternal Female, but in every woman there is also something of the spirit of the Eternal Cheerleader. Right now, in the world at large, both of these Eternal Spirits (the Female and the Cheerleader) are hard pressed finding, so to speak, obscure objects of desire. And nobody gets nastier than a Cheerleader pissed off...
Mark W.