They fight tooth and nail to get pornography banned. Every time so much as a breast is flashed on television, they're up in arms. They lobby to get rid of strip clubs. Yet the naked human body is natural, and sex is a natural human function that's necessary for reproduction of our species. It's also a great escape from lifes miseries and makes those who engage in it feel much better. The Roman Catholic church is so afraid, they even prohibit birth control. Why are Christians so afraid of sex?
2006-10-07 10:38:09 · 26 answers · asked by digitalquirk 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Many Christians say that sex is okay, but only within the context of their religious views. They still demonstrate they are afraid of sex outside the realms of their religious views. Also, the Roman Catholic church still prohibits condom use even between married couples, helping to make sure that sex cannot be used for sheer pleasure even between a consenting couple.
2006-10-07 11:02:19 · update #1
I think the original religious laws against promiscuity and adultery were mainly designed to promote social order and stability. Fundamentalists are afraid of sex because of one truth we all know. Sex is the greatest thing in the world. That is a threat to their Jesus first, jesus last, and jesus all points in between idea of religion.
2006-10-07 10:43:01 · answer #1 · answered by Skippy 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well not all Christians are afraid of sex or else we christians wouldn't be born. I believe its a woman's duty to maintain herself among sexual situations. It is a strong woman that bears the proper well human. Ok sure the naked body is natural, but that line is just an excuse for men to OK a woman's insecurities.. man wake up its all about power, money and control. Woman and men these days are equal when it comes to the spreading of corruption. You have to draw some type of line when it comes to sex or we would be humping our own relatives man. Well if its a greta escape from lifes misiers we must asked ourselves why we have such miseries in the first place, see all miseries are caused upon man's own wrong doing and if we don't change that today we will be living in the tomorrow and sex is an excuse to relieve those miseries because those miseries should not have even been planted there in the first place.. get it!
2006-10-07 10:39:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
As a Christian I am not afraid of sex in fact I struggle with how much I enjoy it. Sex is pleasurable for a reason and no where in the Bible does it say that sex is wrong. But that does not mean that it can not be abused. Lust is what we are really talking about.
Really the problem is sex outside of marriage. I was guilty of this before I became a Christian but stopped because I saw Gods wisdom in his plan for marriage.
Look at many of the major problems in the US today and you will find that many stem from the destruction of the family! Children are growing up with fewer morals each generation and becoming adults that have children with even fewer morals and on and on!
Then you come to STDs and their affect on you for the rest of your life.
But the worst consequence is the senseless murder covered up by a "right to choose"!
"over 40000000 abortions performed in the United States since 1973" (1)
2006-10-07 11:05:27 · answer #3 · answered by nubins 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
We are not afraid of sex, it is sex taken outside of marriage that is wrong. God says that even looking at a woman with lust in your eyes is a sin. It may make people feel better...for a time. The point is that it takes people's focus off of God, and can cause unwanted pregnancies that can lead to abortion or adoption (which there is a huge overflow of, meaning many orphanages where children or not treated well). Besides this, sex is meant to be a way to draw a married couple together, outside of marriage it is statistically shown that it only hurts marriages. Sex outside of marriage is an abuse of a pleasure that God has gifted us with, and pornography only causes us to look at other humans as objects orentertainment, which we are so much more than.
2006-10-07 10:44:01 · answer #4 · answered by Daniel K 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Real Christians are not afraid of sex. Why should they be? God is the author of all human sexuality. Sex with anybody for any reason though is not healthy and it leads to many problems. Sex is a Holy thing and it is not to be mocked. It is intended to complete a male female relationship within the boundaries of marriage. This is what marriage is all about. A total giving of each other to the other.
2006-10-07 10:47:47 · answer #5 · answered by Midge 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I am a Christian and I am not afraid of sex. My husband and I enjoy an active sex life. Pornography is addictive for some and causes many social problems. Look at child pornography and what all it causes. As for what is shown on telelvision parents need to monitor what their children watch. Adults seeing a breast is one thing but a child well that is another matter entirely. There are always those who feel guilty about their sexual desires and cause problems.
2006-10-07 10:42:17 · answer #6 · answered by Proud to be an American 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Christians [i myself being one] have but the fence up around sex, and have put so many bad labels on it. Christians have always 'set themsleves up' for commiting sin by saying anything and everything is indeed a sin.
Now i am lutheran, so the whole birth control sh*t blows my mind, but thats beside the point.
good question.
2006-10-07 10:47:28 · answer #7 · answered by darlingDELIGHTxx 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians are NOT afraid of sex. Sex belongs in the bedroom of a married couple only. That is what God intended it for. Out of marriage sex is fornication and against God. Christians stand on the word of God and obey it.
God says this about such behavior...
Romans 1:25 -32 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
pleasure Psa 10:3, 1st Cor 13:6
2006-10-07 10:45:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Afraid of it? Quite the contrary. Christians (and Muslims, and Jews) are fully aware of the power of sex -- that's why they seek to control it in any way they can. This means controlling women -- restricting access to abortion and contraceptives, making rules that only women have to follow (i.e., dress codes that force women to cover their hair and faces), and generally treating women as second-class members of their organizations.
2006-10-07 10:55:00 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They want to control it and make access to it only by marriage and make money out of it. The followers are just gullible but this is why they are afraid of other routes to sex, it looses them money
2006-10-07 10:41:35 · answer #10 · answered by . 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋