Faith Should Help Us Connect Sex to Loving Others
When I think of sex and religion, I start with the following observations:
When I think of sex and religion, I start with the following observations:
If you think that religions are irrational and that they foster violence you’ll want the presidential hopefuls to keep their religiosity tightly under the lid, much as you’d want them to keep under the lid other irrational and violence-fostering urges they might have.
These were my thoughts prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and they are my thoughts today: The war was unjust when it was planned, and it is unjust now as it is being waged.
In my book Free of Charge, I tell the story of how my five-year old brother was killed because of the combined negligence of our nanny and a soldier who had befriended my brother.
There is nothing surprising in the recent resurgence of atheist and anti-religious thinking. The wave, which has not yet crested, is greatly a consequence of the massive abuse of religion in recent years.
The short answer to the first question is “Yes.” The long answer to all three questions would take a book or two, and very thick ones at that.
America has never been and will never be a Christian nation for one simple reason: “Nation” is not a religious category, or at least it should not be for Christians.
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