Misinformation Special: Telling Young People That Their Bodies Are Shameful
Same old crap, cool new look. Passion for Christ Movement has jumped on the bandwagon of hundreds of other Evangelical groups that are infecting the airways of youth, trying to suck them in by making Pauline Christianity look "hip" and "cool," but ultimately selling the same old crap.
Passion for Christ Movement has launched the sale of "ex-masturbator" tees in some pretty ugly fonts. Some non-paid lackey at the church writes:
"Yeah we said it….Nobody talks about it, but most people have done it or are still doing it. It's seems to be a rite of passage for both girls and guys into the world of sex. Some say masturbation is not a sin, some say that it is. But is it really okay in the eyes of God?"
Why is God watching me masturbate? Doesn't that make him a bit pervy. Anyhow, Pauline Christianity, i.e. the books of the New Testament attributed to (St.) Paul, really aren't cool. For example:
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. 26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Romans 1:24-27
I mean, for serious, young people are ashamed enough about sex due to the misinformation soaked into their brains by MTV which is then rigorously contradicted at church, synagogue, or what have you the next day. I am all up for discussing bodily functions, especially as they are sometimes used as addictions, but I am not up for discussing them with the implication that I will discontinue using my organs by the end of that discussion. And, to clarify, I am defining "addictions" in the context as: a distraction from the reality of life.
As a male I am more than aware of how masturbation, especially with the advent of pornography, may be used as an addiction. However, only when placed in the context of addiction does the act of masturbation become harmful. I know because I have enjoyed my body sexually separately from an addiction.
Hey, their the ones who wanted us to talk about it...
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