SEX AND RELIGION
The SF Chronicle published my letter
The Supreme Court says RC institutions may not have to provided birth control teaching or procedures. Too Bad. That great old church’s sex-negative stance is the root of its deep problems. No birth control, no sex outside of marriage, no marriage for priests, no abortion and no homosexuality. A great church is locked in trying to control human sexuality.
RWC
A friend replied:
Thu, Jul 9, 2:07 PM
Christian religion's prepossession with sexual mores is the very sort of obsession with rules and regulations that Jesus condemned in the Pharisees. Based on, among other things, my recent reading of the whole of Paul's Letter to the Church at Rome, he, or those who subsequently interpreted his writings, is largely to blame for this futile attempt to dictate human sexuality. So, Paul, "get a life", as St. John saith, if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves.
Friday, July 10, 2020
I replied to my friend:
Poor St. Paul. He never intended his moral teachings to be universal laws. They were written to handle specific issues that arose in the communities he founded. Augustine, Aquinas and Calvin added to the sex control.
RWC
posted by RWC | 5:28 PM
1 Comments:
And poor Francis in our day, who mildly suggests that priests assigned to labor in the deep Amazonian vineyard might do well to have a wife before heading into thto what’s left of the rain forest, is excoriated by his fellow hierarchs. Rage, jealousy, repression! Anything but honesty and the limits of papal authority.
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