It seems that every "Christian" I talk to wants to subjugate his wife, and tell the rest of the world that it is immoral, and prohibit all sexual conduct among non married people and restrict the sxual conduct that married peopl can enjoy. What is this victorian fascination with sexual power and control?
2006-08-22 04:43:46 · 16 answers · asked by Foundryman 2 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
It's all about power and control. Most religions exert considerable influence over their adherents' lives, including their sexual lives. There is nothing uniquely Victorian about it; it is simply one area used by religions to dominate every aspect of peoples' lives.
2006-08-22 04:58:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not really for example the Vatican has a very antiwar stance. Condemning WWI WWII and most conflicts. The Catholic Church in the middle ages produced a bull called "The Truce of God" in order to stop most wars or at least making them impractical. The abolitionist movement was a Christian movement as was Martin Luther King Jr's movement. On the other hand the crimes commit ed by Atheists regimes such as Red China and Communist Russia have no equivalent.
2016-03-27 01:10:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question, and its by no means limited to Christians. Look at the Muslim countries of the middle east! Religion in institutional form is just as much an attempt to keep adherents in line as it is concerned with answering/teaching spiritual/pseudo spiritual concepts. In our world, the concept of individual liberty and traditional order are seldom reconciled. It will always be a battle.
One of the most defining, strongest and simultaneously beautiful and potentially destructive characteristics of all humans is lust. Whether you're talking about cavemen or people from the 25th century- the story will always remain the same so long as we are human. The problem is, when its not contained through some form of rigid social enforcement, it runs contrary to defined modes of social order ( like child rearing rules, parenting, defined class behaviors etc.) This is where religion tries to jump in to be the behavior police (after all, if God says u can't do something, who's to disagree!)
The other thing is order- all ppl like a defined set of behaviors and rules. It is soothing to know that the "right things" never change, like love for mankind, respect for elders, kindness, etc. Sexual order is just an extension, some would say, distortion of that concept. Prudish or very religious people have one common trait- they cherish order in the world more than personal liberty, and that is why they forever try to push against libertarian values like sexual freedom. Its not bad, its not good- just the way some people are raised or think.
2006-08-28 09:30:45 · answer #3 · answered by doubledeuce44 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Get out of the US! After Afghanistan, the US is the most Taliban-esque country, and what you wrote is just an evidence of it. I'm a Christian and also find shocking the backward and double-faced morality of my brothers and sisters from the US. "The Scarlett Letter" is still played out today in your country. Just look at you indignant uproar because a chubby girl licked some os your president's endowment in some oval office, or because a mature and over the hill performer flashed her nipple for a fraction of a second during some lousy presentantion of hers. Victorian morality seems to be shared by Christians and non Christians in the US.
2006-08-26 12:10:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They talk about it but do they practice it? There are many upon many judgemental people in Christianity. They don't practice what they preach. Look at how many priests are molesting little boys. Christianity teaches supression of sexuality which goes against nature.
2006-08-22 07:09:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's KINKY, for starters, and well...be honest - there's something awfully erotic about a chaste woman with a high collar and crossed ankles getting down and dirty on a Saturday night for the sole purpose of adding more sheep to the fold!
2006-08-27 21:49:41 · answer #6 · answered by pyrrhic_victories 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have often wondered this It seems religion is all about people's sex lives and strange obsessions. Look at the RC priests and see the result of that. Repression instead of celebration of our sexuality. That is why I am wiccan
2006-08-25 05:59:50 · answer #7 · answered by nora7142@verizon.net 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems that you don't know all the christians in the world. Not all Christians think like the way these peple are telling you.
2006-08-28 18:33:40 · answer #8 · answered by jrealitytv 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since Christians believe that God had revealed the truth through the Church and/or Jesus Christ once and for all how can it change for them?
2006-08-29 06:24:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have Muslim morals passed the Stone Ages?
2006-08-22 04:50:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋