Religion, Sexual Repression, Guilt and Hypocrisy
By
Alexander Shaumyan
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""" I was reading different comments on Ronald Hull's poem
Hypocrisy, related to the latest sex scandal involving Dan Foley.
Of course, the Christian answer is that man is weak and will always fail. If we can't trust ourselves as humanity, whom can we trust?
The Christian answer is that only God can be trusted.
The Christian solution to the problem is to print more Bibles and build more churches and to instill more guilt and fear into young children.
The problem that I have with Christianity is that it views man as fundamentally sinful and in need of supernatural guidance.
The basic teachings of Christianity repress natural human impulses.
We've all been angry, jealous or lustful at one time or another.
What matters is how we handled these impulses.
It's the repression of these impulses that creates a religious hypocrite.
A married man who denies having lustful fantasies about attractive women is forced to become a hypocrite.
The moral crusaders become what they fight by repressing their own sexual impulses.
Thus we see many Catholic priests, who by denying their natural sexual impulses, become child molesters. """
""" Religions create extremism that leads to ignorance and intolerance.
The dogmas of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have held us back for centuries from believing in ourselves and what we are truly capable of.
If we become free from religion, then we become responsible for ourselves and for the society that we create in our lifetime. """
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http://www.smartsociety.org/guiltandsex.html
""" In some macabre way, guilt is something that many people seem to need.
It’s as though to be completely guilt free is somehow not nice!
Religious leaders exploit this weakness to its maximum.
Inducing guilt in their followers keeps them servile and controllable.
Some religions are worse than others, but they all do it to some degree.
Roman Catholics declare that everyone is born in sin – that puts you in your place from day one!
Then they create a lot of rules that they know will be broken.
That creates the guilt.
But then, through the confessional, the “sinners” can be forgiven so they can start all over again! """
""" All religions use sex to induce guilt."""