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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: Christianity cares about lives--other religions = hypocrites!
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:46:30 GMT
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- In <1993Jan26.025305.24483@pony.Ingres.COM> dan@Ingres.COM (a Rose arose) writes:
- >
- >Who says christians are a bunch of prudes that think having sex for fun is
- >sinful?
-
- That's a generalization; the fundies say that, not all christians.
-
- >The problem comes in when sex is abused. It is the abuse of sex that is
- >wrong or immoral. Pick your life partner wisely--choose one who has wisdom
- >and love and good character--one who you would want to be the other parent
- >of your children.
-
- Absolutely. But remember - try before you buy! :-)
-
- >Play around before marriage, and you may be
- >haunted with memories of past partners after marriage. Or you may marry the
- >wrong person to cover a pregnancy. Or you may murder your child to cover it.
-
- Nonsense
-
- >But I doubt reality presents this as much as it does
- >the concerned christian who cares about the wrongful manner in which sexuality
- >is treated in the classroom--one that displays sex as a rite of passage where
- >one becomes impassioned, screws, and then throws away the relationship the
- >moment where passion leaves and the couple is no longer in love. This "normal"
- >behaviour is to be repeated by all "normal", "healthy" teens and adults with
- >little or no consequence as long as proper procedures are followed.
-
- I doubt that this is what's taught by *any* sex-ed curriculum.
-
- >Abortion is something that is considered to be
- >preventing a baby from coming into existence
-
- That *is* what it does.
-
- >All this sounds good to a point--and that point is the point of reaching
- >reality. Sex is dangerous outside monogamous relationships.
-
- Nonsense.
-
- >It is not healthy
- >psychologically since it forms unhealthy expectations, unhealthy relationships,
- >passes diseases, causes unexpected pregnancies, leads to abusive relationships
- >where one partner demands more than another would prefer to give, etc.
-
- All nonsense.
-
- >People, when will America become America,
-
- When politicians stop bending to pressure from the religious right, who
- are attempting to make this country into a theocracy.
- --
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
-