Dear, The Atheist!
You are probably the one preoccupied with sex and now you project it
onto Christianity and the Catholic Church. You say, "The Ten
Commandments contain a commandment forbidding the coveting of one's
neighbor's wife, but do not even mention slavery, torture, or
cruelty—which were abundantly common in the time the Commandments were
written— speaks volumes about their writer's preoccupation with sex
(and women as property)."
Jesus summarised the 10 commandments into two - "Love your God and
your neighbour as yourself." In other words, you cannot love God if
you can't love your fellow human being and if you love your fellow
human being you cannot subject him or her to slavery, torture or
cruelty. The Bible from Genesis to Revelation speaks about
establishing right relationships.
We can read it from different books - psalms, prophets, gospels and
epistles - among others. So, it is not true that slavery, torture or
cruelty are not mentioned. Read the book of Amos, for instance, it
talks about that. I invite you, instead of giving sweeping statements,
take your time to read and meditate on biblical texts and certainly
one day you'll come to realise that what you are doing is either you
are dodging the truth or you are ignorant about it and so if you are
'either or' your tendency would be to speculate as you are doing.
On 8/7/12, The Atheist <hmumia@gmail.com> wrote:
> For centuries, Christianity has had an exceptionally unhealthy fixation on
> sex, to the exclusion of almost everything else (except power, money, and
> the infliction of cruelty). This stems from the numerous *"thou shalt
> nots"*relating to sex in the Bible. That the Ten Commandments contain
> a
> commandment forbidding the coveting of one's neighbor's wife, but do not
> even mention slavery, torture, or cruelty—which were abundantly common in
> the time the Commandments were written— speaks volumes about their writer's
> preoccupation with sex (and women as property).
>
> Look at what the Churches teach, they promote the concept of sex before
> marriage. Yet in reality, sex and marriage are not mutually exclusive. One
> does not follow from the other. And a child born out of a sexual
> relationship that was outside of a marriage is just as much a child as the
> one born within the marriage institution. We know for a fact that the
> concept of sex before marriage has become non-existent in our society
> today. But the Church still holds onto its old traditional Jewish obsession
> with sex matters. So for all of you who believe in this concept, drop it.
> Have sex, and marry because you love your partner, not because the Church
> says sex before marriage is wrong!
>
> Today, judging from the pronouncements of many Christian leaders, one would
> think that "morality" consists solely of what one does in one's bedroom.
> The *Catholic Church* is the prime example here, with its moral
> pronouncements rarely going beyond the matters of birth control and
> abortion (and with its moral emphasis seemingly entirely on those matters).
> Also note that the official Catholic view of sex—*that it's for the purpose
> of procreation only*—reduces human sexual relations to those of brood
> animals. For more than a century the Catholic Church has also been the
> driving force behind efforts to prohibit access to birth control devices
> and information—to everyone, not just Catholics.
>
> The Catholic Church, however, is far from alone in its sick obsession with
> sex. The Christian hate campaigns against homosexuals is another prominent
> manifestation of this perverse preoccupation. Condemnation of "sodomites"
> from church pulpits is still very, very common
>
> *THE CHRISTIAN FAITH HAS A VERY UNHEALTHY PRE-OCCUPATION WITH SEX! SEX IS A
> GOOD THING.*
>
> *ENJOY IT!*
>
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