Finally a religion that Atheists and religionists can agree on. The discrepancy is in their interpretation and this makes for a fascinating discussion.
From an atheist standpoint, science replaces God. As long as there is science, why do we need a God? Science can even provide a moral base, or so they argue.
Let’s take sex as our subject matter. Sex is the elephant standing in your living room full of guests that nobody will discuss. Safe sex is an oxymoron except within the bonds of matrimony.
That should get your blood moving, unless of course you agree with the statement. So rather than use the prudish Christian values card that atheist abhor, lets use their god to address the matter: science.
In an article by Jeff Zaslow, found in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Some Date: How Homecoming Is Losing Out to Hanging Out,” a new trend has emerged.
Young men ask girls out to prom but don’t take them to prom. They take pictures, grab something to eat and then go hang out at someone’s house. Hanging out is a metaphor for hooking up or a sexual encounter with no attachments or emotional connections.
In a new study conducted by Michigan State University, 60 percent of young people have had sexual ‘friends with benefits.’ Nine out of 10 hookups had no meaningful relationship.
Young women today believe it is empowering to be dismissive of romance and casual about sex, yet they long for romance. The action and their desire go in opposite directions. Statistics don’t support their actions. When a woman has intercourse, her brain secretes a drug called oxytocin, a drug shown to increase bonding and trust.
When the sex partner is just a convenience or the ‘benefits’ of friendship, the bonding is unfulfilled and over time depression replaces what would have been bonding. The woman then searches constantly for love and uses sex to give her temporary satisfaction.
Her search is never ending, her sex in search of love is insatiable, depression is the result and the cycle can become an addiction.
Multiple studies conclude that adolescent sex results in depression years later while abstinence until marriage results in better mental health in adulthood. New research is now connecting ‘hooking up’ to pornography. The young man uses the relationship with the girl as a means to act out his fantasies. She falsely assumes he cares about her as a person, when his interest is merely an appetite suppressant.
Safe sex is found within the bonds of monogamous matrimony. It satisfies and enhances the relationship and prevents mental and physical disease, not babies. More and more research is now pointing to premarital sex as a hindrance to bonding and trust.
The intimacy of making love is in stark contrast to having sex. Making love deepens emotions and expands trust. Having sex destroys intimacy, isolates the participant and destroys happiness, and this position comes from the god of science.
The irony of the discussion is that Christian leaders discovered and promulgated this fact long before science discovered it. I am content with the god of the atheist, but he’s slower and less intelligent than the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Revelation and the spirit of God seems to have a T1 connection to earth, while the god of science is still using pony express. The message eventually arrives, but it’s like getting the news that WWII is over in today’s newspaper, both the message and the means are antiquated.
The message is still true, but it comes as a ditto.
