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Recieved: 2004/04/23 16:24
Subject: Re: [K-list] How to?
From: Forrest Curo
On 2004/04/23 16:24, Forrest Curo posted thus to the K-list:
>Ummmmm, nobody "invented" sex, but i think i get your point.
> are you saying that sex is sacred, holy etc because ..... but isnt
>it funny that the main reason many of us have sex issues is largely
>due to our religious upbringing??? not sure bout all religions,
>but doesnt the bible say something about sex being a sin, if not
>a deadly one??? i might be off here.
First, "God" is neither "nobody" nor "anybody." God is the whole
What-It-Is and Who-We-Are.
This is the world that has YOU in it; therefore it's been the
appropriate place to be in your development so far... And this world
comes with a long history in which people have been
confused/learning-the-hard-way. The Bible shows you a lot of that
confusion at work.
European/American misinterpretations of the Bible abound. The authors
were neither all-knowing nor stupid. They belonged to a wide range of
different cultures, which means that they thought/felt differently in
their unexamined assumptions about how human beings should live. Having
to marry your brother's widow so she could have "his" children made
sense to them, not to us. (Onan's "sin" was pulling out so he could keep
on "trying" to fertilize his brother's widow, without being interrupted
by an actual pregnancy; he was struck dead for neglecting his social
obligation.)
Nothing is in the Bible (or anywhere in our lives) by accident. But it
wasn't written to help people get through life without having to think.
People who would rather die than think just use it that way.
Most people who think they're "living by the Bible" are really just
trying to obey some idealised version of traditional social norms. Which
have been anti-sexual for some very long time, because of the conditions
in which those norms developed.
God snuck some radically subversive messages into the Bible. But most
people take them backwards.
"I read your Bible day and night,
But you read black, where I read white." (William Blake)
Forrest Curo
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