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Porn is slowly killing Evangelicalism
Patheos ^ | June 12, 2018 | Grayson Gilbert

Posted on 08/24/2018 10:41:00 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

Pornography is single-handedly one of the worst epidemics facing the Evangelical church today. There are a myriad of other factors which appear to be eroding the Western church from the inside-out, yet Evangelicals scarcely address the root of the problem of pornography within the church. On the whole, human sexuality is undergoing an existential crisis. Yet the church is placed squarely in the midst of this crisis, often not even addressing its own underlying issues until far too late. Leader after leader (after leader!) disqualifies himself through sexual misconduct, all the while the name of Christ is slandered. Lest we focus on only Evangelical leaders though, sexual misconduct, including rampant use of porn, is very much present within the laity of the church.

We live in a culture that consumes pornography at the same rate as hamburgers – and we don’t see that as an absolutely terrifying trend...People have removed any purpose to sexuality other than pleasure. If we sense pornography does not facilitate this with abundant ease, we are naïve at best. If we sense the church has not bought into this lie, well, the statistics show otherwise.

We don’t see these things because we don’t properly understand humanity in terms of relation to God, but instead, we see it in terms of sexuality. One might be tempted to look at these things from a purely clinical perspective, but Scriptural precedent clearly establishes a direct correlation between all forms of sexual perversion and a hatred of God and our fellow man.

Yet Evangelical Christians are still participating in these deeds of darkness without much forethought to the long-term consequences. Here we stand, at the precipice of cultural, sexual anarchy, enjoying the same titillating nonsense this world so eagerly digests.

(Excerpt) Read more at patheos.com ...


TOPICS: Evangelical Christian; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: christianity; christians; evangelicals; porn; pornography; sexabuse; sin; squirrel; strawmangrasping
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To: RetiredArmy

The question I have is the reason why President Donald J. Trump has been elected is because God is giving one last chance to America to get things right?

Could he be America’s Cyrus?


41 posted on 08/24/2018 12:03:10 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: RetiredArmy

The question I have is the reason why President Donald J. Trump has been elected is because God is giving one last chance to America to get things right?

Could he be America’s Cyrus?


42 posted on 08/24/2018 12:03:10 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: miss marmelstein
So it is Path Eos?

Hmmmm.

You are aware that Eos is the Greek goddess of the dawn right? She had sex with Ares who was Aphrodite's lover. Aphrodite cursed Eos to always be in heat and never know satisfaction.

Not the kind of place I would look for any sort of religious guidance but everyone has their own way I suppose.

43 posted on 08/24/2018 12:05:36 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
And finally contraceptive culture and pornography go hand in hand when it comes to the postmodern deconstruction of boiling everything sacred down to 'pleasure.'

Your opinion only.

There's no proof that one causes the other nor that contraception is the cause of the immorality.

On the contrary, if you consider contraception a sin, then all sin is the symptom of immorality in the heart first.

Contraception does not cause promiscuity.

The desire for promiscuity, which happened first, fueled the demand for the contraceptives.

The availability of contraceptives is the symptom of the problem, not the cause of it. Catholics have it all backwards.

Sin is conceived in the heart before it is born out in the actions.

44 posted on 08/24/2018 12:07:59 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Bonemaker

“It has been my experience that men who regularly get “serviced” by the lady they love have little interest in porn.”

That’s because they’re too busy worrying about their wives finding out!


45 posted on 08/24/2018 12:10:12 PM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Then we better ban The Bachelor and allcthe Barbara Cartland ladyporn books too. And take all the ladies aides she has in her dresser or nightstand away.


46 posted on 08/24/2018 12:10:52 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

True believers will strive for holiness. It becomes part of their new nature.


47 posted on 08/24/2018 12:13:32 PM PDT by HarleyD
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

It’s the name of an online magazine which you completely misread on the first go around and are now trying to turn the name into something else again perhaps to cover up your original mistake.

And who here said they were using it for religious guidance? I read it on occasion because it has some authors on it that I like. It has plenty of Evangelical writings on it as well as Catholic and other religions.


48 posted on 08/24/2018 12:21:25 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

It’s a cesspool of leftist theology and affronts to God. They deliberately incubate that trash. There may be some gold there, but it’s a sewer.


49 posted on 08/24/2018 12:21:54 PM PDT by JimSp
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To: Secret Agent Man

Barbara Cartland is porn?


50 posted on 08/24/2018 12:22:21 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Yaelle

Oh, some clown on FR. I forget who it was.


51 posted on 08/24/2018 12:24:26 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

That site deliberately incubates vile trash.


52 posted on 08/24/2018 12:24:47 PM PDT by JimSp
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Is it a problem? Yes. Does the author overstate the issue by generalizing the whole of “Evangelicals” for that the evidemce shows is a minority, in spite of the anecdotal evidence. The same is true on the Catholic priesthood. Is it - those who have committed sexual abuse - too many? Yes; way too many. Yet even that is still not a majority of Catholic priests.

There is giant journalistic failure that always fails to use a simple qualifier like “some” within a group, and leaving that qualifier out and not quantifiying evidence paints, by default , a broad brush against all of a group.

Should western Christian church leaders admit there is a social problem that even SOME of their own leaders are participant in? Sure, definately. Yet, neither Catholics or Evangelicals should accept a broad guilt that is attempting to be palced on all of their faith. Yes, they should be proactive in ferreting it out within their faith, but that is far as any group-guilt goes.

Sometimes I think these articles are not written by true Evangelicals or Catholics but by actual Liberals who know they are makeing broad-brush guilt puctires against entire faiths - for Liberals own agandas.


53 posted on 08/24/2018 12:39:21 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: miss marmelstein

And Danielle Steele, and the other ladyporn writers, you are damn right they are.


54 posted on 08/24/2018 12:39:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man; ronniesgal

I suspect you’ve never read Barbara Cartland, lol. All her heroines are virgins until the marriage with the Lord of the Manor.

RG: Barbara Cartland is now porn!


55 posted on 08/24/2018 12:41:13 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

maybe for little old ladies! pearls and parachute panties.


56 posted on 08/24/2018 12:46:31 PM PDT by ronniesgal ( I wonder what his FR handle is??)
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To: Vigilanteman

Services?

Lol

No one who’s married talks that way “hey honey come service me”

Men who talk that way are gonna need Kimmy Granger as their keyboard date

Newsflash to puritans

Some women like porn I hate to break the news

Gets em worked up like quaays used to

Women are not all alike


57 posted on 08/24/2018 12:46:35 PM PDT by wardaddy (Wake up and quit aping opinions you think will make you popular here)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I dunno. Pornography is not a problem for me cause I don’t go looking for it. If these guys are in trouble it’s because they went and looked for it.


58 posted on 08/24/2018 12:53:12 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I think some women here feel threatened by porn

I’m 60 and I’ve seen a lot

Porn exists for

Some couples on date night

Some men who have no real partner

Some women who don’t either

Lesbians and homos who like their kind of porn

Men who’s wives don’t want sex or got too fat

Seems to me it ain’t exactly porns fault no matter how prurient some of it is

My main warning about it in 2018 is most women don’t look that way nor do they freak that way
I don’t believe a man neglects a fun loving hotwife for porn

Sorry I ain’t buying it

Cause I sure as hell dont


59 posted on 08/24/2018 12:57:04 PM PDT by wardaddy (Wake up and quit aping opinions you think will make you popular here)
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To: shanover

It’s also an area where women make more than men.

Fwiw.


60 posted on 08/24/2018 1:01:59 PM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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