What's with NEPA and racism/bigotry issues? (Scranton, Wilkes-Barre: private schools, vouchers)

[greentown]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

Religions promote procreation. Not just plain old fun sex.

I don't know about you, but we had a lot of plain old fun sex while we were procreating!

[Magritte25]

Originally Posted by greentown

I don't know about you, but we had a lot of plain old fun sex while we were procreating!

Oh so did we! But we aren't procreating everytime we have sex!

[greentown]

Originally Posted by MermanMike

Well, the reason it is everywhere is because people want to see it. We are the media. And the reason people are obsessed with it is because they are ashamed of it.

One day I wondered what percentage of sites on the internet are porn related. So, I asked the central mind (Google) and found out that approximately 12% of all internet sites are porn. That's quite a bit when you really think about it. Why are people obsessed with porn? I think it is because sex is repressed.

And I think religion represses sex through the promotion of abstinence. Abstinence is just another way of saying "repress sex." Marriage doesn't make sense for everyone. Not everyone wants it. Many people want to share love and sexual intimacy with a number of individuals, and as long as they aren't hurting anyone, why not? Kids are curious because they have bodies that are capable of various states of pain and pleasure. They will experiment. And I'd venture to guess that it's what has been done since the beginning of human presence on earth. To ask a kid to abstain from that instinct is to ask the impossible, and to ask them to abstain only from the behavior is to ask them to repress themselves. And that repression creates obsession, which leads to perversion. Thanks, religion!
Yours truly,
A recovering catholic

So just because someone has an instinct, they should be able to act on it? How about some responsibility and a sense that you can't always do everything you want to because there are consequences to having sex? Sure, having sex is absolutely a natural instinct. And it's natural consequence is producing a child. Teenagers are notoriously irresponsible using birth control, so if abstinence (or repression) will prevent unwanted pregnancies and STD's, then I'm all for it.
If I'm following your reasoning, rapists and child molesters somehow were repressed by their religion, then became obsessed perverts?

[greentown]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

Oh so did we! But we aren't procreating everytime we have sex!

I haven't heard of any religions that ban marital sex unless procreating. Maybe I'm missing something.

[Magritte25]

Originally Posted by greentown

So just because someone has an instinct, they should be able to act on it? How about some responsibility and a sense that you can't always do everything you want to because there are consequences to having sex? Sure, having sex is absolutely a natural instinct. And it's natural consequence is producing a child. Teenagers are notoriously irresponsible using birth control, so if abstinence (or repression) will prevent unwanted pregnancies and STD's, then I'm all for it.
If I'm following your reasoning, rapists and child molesters somehow were repressed by their religion, then became obsessed perverts?

I think as long as people are using protection and take responsibility it's no one else's business what they do in their bedroom.

[Magritte25]

Originally Posted by greentown

I haven't heard of any religions that ban marital sex unless procreating. Maybe I'm missing something.

I didn't say that. I said that religions encourage procreation. They don't just encourage marital sex. There's a difference.

[greentown]

Originally Posted by Magritte25

I didn't say that. I said that religions encourage procreation. They don't just encourage marital sex. There's a difference.

Oh, ok. I guess they must be encouraging a different form of procreation.

[Philly Stress]

These theads get old an dumb. PA is very racist state, get over it. If it's that bad, move elsewhere.

[Philly Stress]

Originally Posted by NYRangers 2008

Excellent post. The racists like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson want to make us seem racist if we don't like or respect on of their one, like Michael Jackson. I'm racist in their eyes if I don't like MJ, but what about the fact that I like Lenny Kravitz and Jimi Hendrix. What does that make me now? Like you said, it's not about race, it's a culture thing. We're not racists, we're realists.

Anyone whose is a Lenny Kravitz fan can't be a realist.


Kravitz= Wannabe Hendrix

RIP Mike Jackson

[MermanMike]

Originally Posted by greentown

If I'm following your reasoning, rapists and child molesters somehow were repressed by their religion, then became obsessed perverts?

Well, that's not where I was headed, but I would agree that sexual repression resulting from religion has been a factor in the perverted behavior of some rapists and child molesters.