Religion, Porn… what’s the difference?
Posted by: stuartdelony in 2007 Resolutions, Blogroll, Church, Uncategorized, free nude church, free porn, free religion, free religon, living, porn, pornography, prayer, religion, resolution 2007, sex, xxx
That’s right, I said it. With the religion that we’re embedding ourselves in today, we may be better suited to just take up pornography. At least then, we wouldn’t be fooling ourselves. Porn = engaging in the act of watching an act of simulated sex. Religion = engaging in the act of watching an act of simulated church.
We have learned to pervert and idolize Christianity as a thing. It’s been exploited and raped from it’s intended origins. We’re just watching religious acts play out for us in churches, but never really doing much more than watching! And when we do something, it’s part of a program that teaches us to follow steps, not seek the living God.
Christ came and died for us to have life! Not religion. Not ritual. Not simulated, self gratifying worship.
Porn steals the intended power of sex from the union of marriage. Religion steals the intended power of God from our union with Him.
We must begin our days with a renewed focus of “what today Lord?”. Unless we’re following him wholeheartedly, we’re just fooling ourselves. Am I saying we must be perfect? No.
Is this the 12 steps towards christian living? Nope. The Lord doesn’t work that way. It’s the one step to a prayerful journey. Let us ask God to engage our days, our lives. Let us live with expectancy that he will in fact show up. Let us remember who we are.
Let’s quit being religious jerk offs and start living!
Let us be open, honest, and authentic people. Let’s be a humble, struggling, and seeking people.
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Great analogy. It saddens me that it is also a very appropriate one. As a reforming “religious jerk-off” I can attest that all of the trappings of church are worthless. It’s only the relationship with God and spreading the gospel that count.
I appreciate your honest writing. This is not an analogy I would likely use in a sermon (except maybe on my final Sunday at a church!) but it speaks some truth about the way we go about practicing our religion rather than living our faith. The question is, how do we change the Church? Or is it worth changing?
One of the problems with porn is it lies about the nature of women. Men involved in and influenced by porn fail to understand the heart of a woman. SO let me take the analogy another direction. Marriage itself is an analogy / type / shadow of Christ and the Church. Porn teaches us that the woman is always hot for it at any moment. The truth is that the husband is to pursue his wife gently, the crock pot vs microwave analogy. So the lie that the church and religion fall into is that thinking the church has to always be hot for it, when we really just need to obey and be faithful, understand our role and submit to Christ. We cant always be on a passion high. Thats why churches can go from hype, always up to crash and burn, blatant sin and fall.
You don’t scrap the church because she is unfaithful, Christ does not reject her, do we have higher standards than God?