By making sex a sin the religious authorities ensured that everyone was in debt.
Machiavelli said in his book The Prince that the way to keep the masses under control was to impose suffering and then to stipulate conditions for the removal of that suffering.
And this is exactly what the Church has done - impose universal condemnation (for the sin of Adam), linked it to sex, and then dictated to everyone how they will behave and what they will do - from what they wear and who they marry to how they vote.
This is thinly disguised as good.
And it is backed up by hell.
But abstinence from sex and negative attitudes to homosexuality have borne bad fruit - as we have seen from the sex abuse scandals in the Churches.
So be aware that guilt and fear in regard to sex are tools used to control you.
They have nothing to do with God.
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