Sunday, June 20, 2010

Happy Father's Day

A break from lofty intentions! I would like to wish each and every a Happy's Father's and keep up the good fight.

Sex and Religion 2

A response to the first of this ongoing series of sex and religion was a response to The Adam and Eve dilemma as I now dub it.A gentleman suggested that their eyes were open to anal sex.I found the suggestion something to ponder but it doesn't fully cover the entire scope of the complexes of religion and sex.

I also find out quite fascinating that the only response was in reference to anal sex which brings me to the second part of this discussion religion and same sex relationships.While some eastern religions have theologies certain aspects of same sex relationship or cross gendered entities,the Abrahamic based religions, as I call the two major religions of the western world ,totally condemns it.

There are many references to things as temple prostitutes in Judeo-Christians manuscripts.It got me thinking why would a temple a place of worship need prostitutes.And from what I can gather it is seemed to be used as a way to connect to the deities,which further strenghthens my belief that the knowledge of which The occupants of The Garden received.

Temple prostitution in my view is man's way of trying to connect to God through the process that actually caused the disconnection.The link had been severed when Adam and Eve's eyes were opened .They had discovered sexuality outside of the realm which God had intended.The deception by the serpent further manifest itself through temple prostitution to try to defile further the relationship between man and God.

Pleasure had becomes man's god and he had now sullen even the highest form of expression between the Creator and the creation,worship.Through temple prostitution man in a perverse duality engage in Deity worship then negated it with humanistic worship.Homosexual practices where prevalent in these temples.This was a subconscious acknowledgement to the plot the serpent had crafted.

In the Bible and other Abrahamic manuscripts temple prostitution and homosexual practices seemed to always be mentioned when there is a complete deterioration in the relationship between God and man.

Even today in many churches temple prostitution still exists in a subtle but deadly way.Pastors and lay person "preying" on women and children to satisfy their lustful urges in the very places where God is to be exalted.They same to take it as there sacred duty to defile the place of worship.While I am not condemning sex ,on the contrary I am just pointing out the strong connection of sex to religion.

Anup Shah, US and Foreign Aid Assistance, GlobalIssues.org, Last updated: Sunday, April 27, 2008