{"id":12613,"date":"2008-03-11T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T00:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/03\/11\/sex-and-religion.html"},"modified":"2008-03-11T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T00:16:10","slug":"sex_and_religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/11\/sex_and_religion.html","title":{"rendered":"Sex and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doycetesterman.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/current-sexual-teachings-of-re.html\" target=\"_blank\">Doyce<\/a> points to an article on a broad survey of how different religions (in the case of Christianity, some of the larger denominations) feel about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religioustolerance.org\/sex_chur.htm\" target=\"_blank\">various sexual\/conjugal issues<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting reading, though the caveats at the top need to be seriously taken into account (almost to the point of making the comparison useless). Few religions\/denominations are ideological monoliths as organizations, let alone as bodies of believers. That&#8217;s as true for Catholicism as Wicca. Then, too, some of the categories are multiple-choice-question broad &#8212; &#8220;abortion&#8221; and &#8220;divorce&#8221; and so forth can entail a wide array of activities and situations that would be judged by some quite differently.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<blockquote>\n<li> With the exception of masturbation, each of the factors received a 1 rating (&#8220;condemned&#8221;) by at least one faith group.<\/li>\n<li> With two exceptions (teen and extra-marital sex) each of the factors received at least a 4 rating (&#8220;morally acceptable in most cases&#8221;) by at least one faith group.<\/li>\n<li> The only factor over which most faith groups agreed was their near universal condemnation of extra-marital sex.<\/li>\n<li> With such massive differences of opinion, conflicts between faith groups over sexual matters will probably continue long into the future. <\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, as long as sex remains such an item of interest for most people.<\/p>\n<p>That all said, if I were religion-shopping <em>just<\/em> based on the comparison, not surprisingly I&#8217;d probably end up in the Universalist-Unitarian camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doyce points to an article on a broad survey of how different religions (in the case of Christianity, some of the larger denominations) feel about various sexual\/conjugal issues.&nbsp; It&#8217;s interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-religion-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7101,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/29\/articles_of_fai.html","url_meta":{"origin":12613,"position":0},"title":"Articles of faith","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 29-Oct-04 9:09am","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting article via GeekMom on how the \"squeaky wheels\" of the religious right are improperly shaping the view of religious folk in this country -- in part because of...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Religion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Religion","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1143,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/10\/church_of_yoda.html","url_meta":{"origin":12613,"position":1},"title":"Church of Yoda","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Oct-01 6:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Reverend Toop, meet Jedi Master Dag Winru\" Based on an e-mail campaign, enough folks in the UK census listed \"Jedi Knight\" as the religion to get it listed on the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Media &amp; Culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Media &amp; Culture","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131995,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/be-kind-be-helpful-support-those-who-support-others.html","url_meta":{"origin":12613,"position":2},"title":"Be kind. 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