Sex, sex, sex

ThomasD — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:59:08 +0000

I love sex, don’t you? A study in 1993 determined that all but 5% of men and 11% of women have masturbated. In 2002 the Alan Guttmacher Institute found that by their late teenage years, at least 3/4 of all men and women have had intercourse, and more than 2/3 of all sexually experienced teens have had 2 or more partners. Links to these studies can be found at (http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/resources/FAQ.html#Weinstock).
Satan’s work or God’s? I’m going to go with God on this one. Why does anyone masturbate? Why would ¾ of teenage men and women have intercourse? You can answer that it is because Satan put the “dirty” thoughts in their heads but a religious person, someone who had been taught that these thoughts came from Satan and should be ignored and resisted, would surely ignore and resist them if they were just thoughts; but if the thoughts came from the body, the God-given body, the body that Satan is incapable of creating, then they would be more difficult to resist. Think about it. Think about the first time you masturbated. Were you just sitting around and some random thought came into your head, “I think I’ll play with myself”; or did you perhaps wake up one morning with a very pleasurable tingly feeling in your genitals, or were you looking at another person when the feeling came on? Isn’t that where it started, a tingly feeling? In erotic and pornographic literature it is frequently described as an itch but I prefer tingly. The point is that it came from your body. Either because it is rather mysterious because you had not heard anything about this feeling before and were perhaps a little afraid of being different or because you have been taught through your religion that doing anything about that tingly feeling is wrong, a sin; you address the new experience in private.
That, I believe, is the kind of environment in which Satanic (sinful) thoughts are more likely to flourish
If you think Satan is the source of sexual interest, I implore you to put your God-given mind to work. It is your belief in Satan and God that is messing up your mind. You believe that God and only God can create a person in a body. Comedians like to point out how conveniently God placed our hands in relation to our genitals—good for a laugh but also true. Oh, maybe it was just a mistake, an opening for Satan to go to work.
I don’t really believe Satan caused the writing of the Bible but it you read it looking for evidence that he did, you will find much to support the notion. While you are checking out the Bible check on God’s actions and words. He is really a nasty dude. It surpasses understanding why so many nice and lovely things are written about him in the Bible.

Pascal was Wrong

ThomasD — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:45:22 +0000

French philosopher Blaise Pascal wagered “that one would be wise to believe in God, since in the end the believer would lose nothing, unbelievers everything, if proved wrong.” Assuming that the God he was talking about is the God of the Bible I argue the opposite. If one leads a life based on a certain belief and that belief goes counter to the way one might otherwise lead his or her life, it could be a wasted life.

What if the purpose of life were pleasure? What if a successful life were measured in sexual intercourse? Picture the Pope arriving at the Pearly Gates expecting to be welcomed warmly but St. Peter says, “Man, you really messed up.”

Pope: What!? I led an exemplary life. I helped people. I was their moral leader. I guided millions of people to do right.

St. Peter: Yeah, you did some good things but you failed sexually.

Pope (hangs his head sheepishly): Oh, God, I didn’t masturbate that much. Forgive me.

St. Peter: I’m not God.

Pope: Sorry.

St. Peter: You misused your God-given body.

Pope: I’m sorry. I fought it all the time but it felt so good and I was weak.

St. Peter: It felt good? Where did that feeling come from?

Pope: The devil?

St. Peter: Did the devil give you your body?

Pope: No.

St. Peter: No. God gave you your body with all the senses. God gave you your erections. You denied yourself one of the greatest features of your God-given body. What did you think when, at the height of your pleasure you gasped, “Oh God”? Did you think this was blasphemy? Did it never occur to you that this was when you were closest to God, closest to paradise? You can come on in if you want to but I suggest you take another life and try again.

This is just a whimsical tale to illustrate a different point of view. Where did the notion come from that celibacy was a good idea? Certainly not from thinking that our bodies were God-given. Who would want to take away pleasures of the flesh? Certainly not the giver of those pleasures.

We are all different so I don’t want to suggest that someone who does not get pleasure from sex should seek it out against his or her senses. If I am to believe the religious people who wonder what keeps nonbelievers from committing crimes, then I most emphatically say that those people should hold onto their belief that they will go to hell if they don’t follow the Bible. We are all different so I cannot say that anyone else has a moral compass built into their being. Personally I would not consider a sexual pleasure other than with a consenting adult or onanisticly. Anyone who does not have those moral constraints built into their psyche or soul should, by all means, hang onto whatever moral rule or law or commandment keeps them from violating another.

If our belief causes us to live out life in a way different than we otherwise would, then Pascal is in error when he says we have nothing to lose by believing.

Satan Wrote the Bible » masturbation

Sex, sex, sex

Pascal was Wrong