11.13.01
Religion and Sexuality
Bo posted a message on his blog (Opens new window) which off-handedly mentioned that perhaps religion shouldn’t deal with sexuality.
I personally think that Religions *must* deal with sexuality because propogation of the religion nearly demands it. It’s far easier for a religion to maintain it’s population if the ideas and rites are passed down to as many offspring as possible. Of course there’s a number of different ways to achieve this goal, but for the most part, religions require an atomic family that is stable enough to raise a child to the point where it can be indoctrinated with the religion of the family.
If the family is not stable enough to start, maintain and ultimately saturate the child’s mental processes, then the religion itself fights an uphill battle to maintain it’s base population, to speak nothing of growing it.
Any western religion that will survive must use sexuality, procreation and indoctrinization in orer to survive. And woe be the person who attempts to get in the way of this.
All of the above is, of course, IMHO.