Shame and Guilt.

Where does shame and guilt about sex come from?

Negative attitudes about sex based in fear have poisoned the Church for millennia.

Sex is dirty, sex is shameful, sex is bad.

But it is interesting to note that in the Bible Adam and Eve "were both naked, and were not ashamed."  Genesis 2:25 (NRSV)

It was only after the serpent tempted them and they ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that they were ashamed.

It is interesting to note that Satanism links sex to toilet training - its "dirty and sweet" - and perhaps this is where shame and guilt come from.

Shame and guilt and fear are associated with death and this is the basis of Satanism.

So perhaps Satanism in rock music and sports induces this shame and guilt and fear about sex.

And these things create the pollution which bedevils sex.

This is one of the great mysteries of life.

May it be resolved in our lifetime.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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