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My religion (Sikhism) teaches sex before marriage, for reasons it does not specify, but I disagree with that idea. Thing is, I agree with everything else my religion preaches, and practice that too. Does this make me a "bad" person. (I use the word bad lightly).
This is probably a question that I have to answer myself (IMO, no, it does not make me bad), but I wanted to get other people's thoughts. I think as long as you are safe (protection, honesty with the partner), it is a healthy part of being human.
For the record, I have been intimate with women, just not up to the point of intercourse. I am not waiting for marriage until that, just the right person. I'm seeing a woman now (she is atheist), and hopefully she continues to impress me, because I like her!
I don't know anything about your religion, so I wonder, how old is it?
One cannot eat certain foods in some religions and this is an old 'law' made because of health reasons. Because of technology and other developments, it has become safe to eat these foods (pork being the main example here).
There is likely a social reason, more than a religious one for having this rule.
Way back when, a woman's 'job' was raising children and the fathers provided for the family. It would be impossible for a woman with a child, and not married to survive.
I'm not religious, have three kids and have never been married (for my own anti-establishment reasons). I can't see anyone who chooses to have sex before marriage as a bad thing if done responsibly and with respect towards the others involved.
What do sex and religion have to do with each other?
I just read a dozen biblical passages about sex -- Acts 15:20; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 6:13, 18; 10:8; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; Jude 7. All of them simply referred to "sexual immorality". Well, obviously all forms of immorality, sexual or otherwise, are proscribed by biblical teaching. But "immorality" is never defined in terms of what forms of sex are immoral. Immoral, broadly, refers to behavior that has an unwelcome or harmful effect on another person's interests or one's own capacity to be holy. It is sometimes mentioned in conjunction with adultery, but the clarity of that word also leaves a great deal in doubt. Can an unmarried person commit adultery, or is it restricted to sex outside the vows of an already established marriage?
No Badger55...it does not make you a bad person, not at all....Most of the people I know are not religious, and the ones I see that are, never, never, never practice what their religion tells them to, all the time...Anyways, all you'd have to do (for any transgressions) is just pray for forgiveness, and you should be go to go.
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