Will merging religion with culture make us more sexually moral?
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Will merging religion with culture make us more sexually moral?
It is so hard to walk into a conversation about sexual morality with the understanding that religion and cultural norms will be involved and not walk right out.
It is even harder to actually give credence to the though that any nation on earth is unified enough religiously and culturally to successfully combine the two for a "better" social - sexual outcome.
Perhaps the best discussion about sexuality in such a volatile climate as the 21st century is to be a sociological conversation not a religious one. The question is posed how best to create a work-around for the obstacles of sexual morality in society. Shouldn't the answer at least come from the same subject? The sharp decline in global sexual morality doesn't come from religious differences as much as it comes from social differences. No major religion practiced openly by the masses that I am aware of abdicates the use of personally irresponsible sexual behavior. Religion as a concept has not changed drastically in the last 2thousand years. So why is it getting so bad out there?
The thing that has changed is society. The Muslim girls of central Asia see how openly the women of the new Iraqi parliament are allowed to dress and they are confused. Protestant girls in Kentucky see how the young women at their local college go out on dates and are confused. Teenage girls in Idaho gather around to watch teenage girls on TV kissing and making out during prime time and gather around the next day at school to talk about it. All 6 different groups of females would be completely out of place if they were exiled in the other groups way of life. They wouldn't be lost religiously . . . their God would probably come with them. What would be missing is their understanding of the society that they are part of.
Shouldn't we as members of society seek to change our group norm instead of our individualistic religious doctrines if we at all want to be successful in the sexual education of our youth? Religious awareness doesn't teach you how to feel about the act of sex, only the recourse and righteousness of it. Likewise societal understanding wont teach you if you should have sex, only how society looks at those who want, have, and exude it.
***Food for thought***
Where did you get your first concept of sex? Is it different then your current religious view of sex?
Posted in unison at both http://lightfoot-input.blogspot.com and http://www.myspace.com/tylightfoot
Will merging religion with culture make us more sexually moral?
It is so hard to walk into a conversation about sexual morality with the understanding that religion and cultural norms will be involved and not walk right out.
It is even harder to actually give credence to the though that any nation on earth is unified enough religiously and culturally to successfully combine the two for a "better" social - sexual outcome.
Perhaps the best discussion about sexuality in such a volatile climate as the 21st century is to be a sociological conversation not a religious one. The question is posed how best to create a work-around for the obstacles of sexual morality in society. Shouldn't the answer at least come from the same subject? The sharp decline in global sexual morality doesn't come from religious differences as much as it comes from social differences. No major religion practiced openly by the masses that I am aware of abdicates the use of personally irresponsible sexual behavior. Religion as a concept has not changed drastically in the last 2thousand years. So why is it getting so bad out there?
The thing that has changed is society. The Muslim girls of central Asia see how openly the women of the new Iraqi parliament are allowed to dress and they are confused. Protestant girls in Kentucky see how the young women at their local college go out on dates and are confused. Teenage girls in Idaho gather around to watch teenage girls on TV kissing and making out during prime time and gather around the next day at school to talk about it. All 6 different groups of females would be completely out of place if they were exiled in the other groups way of life. They wouldn't be lost religiously . . . their God would probably come with them. What would be missing is their understanding of the society that they are part of.
Shouldn't we as members of society seek to change our group norm instead of our individualistic religious doctrines if we at all want to be successful in the sexual education of our youth? Religious awareness doesn't teach you how to feel about the act of sex, only the recourse and righteousness of it. Likewise societal understanding wont teach you if you should have sex, only how society looks at those who want, have, and exude it.
***Food for thought***
Where did you get your first concept of sex? Is it different then your current religious view of sex?
Posted in unison at both http://lightfoot-input.blogspot.com and http://www.myspace.com/tylightfoot
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