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>>P.S. — He’s right you know..., if we’re all just a product of evolution, just the same as any animal that is out there

Hieros Gamos.

Plato addressed this topic long before Christianity existed.

[Later, for Plato and pre-Christian mystery cults, marriage was also sacred "hieros gamos". Speaking about marriage, sexual indulgence, and paternity, Plato insists that human beings should honor their hieros gamos, and they should have sexual relations only with their wedded spouse. He writes that the state needs to enact laws that would check on "free love" and lusts in order to prevent human beings from becoming less than human. ]

http://www.pahh.com/frangos/wedding2005.pdf

Tyranny of the appetite? Plato was right on target.

It's especially heinous when the tyranny of the appetite is manipulated and exploited in order to feed the appetite of tyranny. When it is used as a device to destabilize and exploit the citizenry.

You know..., while one can discuss cultural norms in different socities, over a period of time and evaluate this one and that one — that’s all you’re doing, just evaluating who said what and when. And if you talk about one teacher or great man or philosopher who said “this” or “that” — again, he’s just another man saying something.

There’s no authority to any of that. Any of it can be changed at a moment’s notice in a society, according to the whims and wishes of the people. One person may appeal to one philosopher. Another person appeal to some laws and traditions. They all hold no authority in today’s society — because today we’re taught that what is right for you is fine and what is right for me is fine. I make my own reality and you make your own reality. That’s post-modernism. So, you make your own authority in today’s society and culture.

And if we don’t like the “norms” that we have in today’s society, we simply change the laws and make homosexual behavior a “choice” and make sex with 12-year olds another “choice” and so on...

On the other hand, when one does recognize that there is a Creator God, who has claim over everything that exists (past or present), who has spoken and who has said what is right and what is wrong — and is the final and Supreme authority — then this is One who can’t be ignored or can’t be put aside without ultimate consequences. And that’s the situation with our Creator God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, of the Bible. That’s the only *authority* that counts and has any basis at all, in the world. All else is simply a lot of discussion that one can easily ignore and choose to go whatever way they want.

Regards,
Star Traveler