"Porn Again" Christianity

[Demeter]

Original Article at http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_frank_j__060817__22porn_again_22_christi.htm


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August 17, 2006

"Porn Again" Christianity

By Frank J. Ranelli

In another stunning display of heretical hypocrisy, a recent poll taken by the self-proclaimed "World's most Christian website", Christianet.com, found that a majority of Christian men, 50%, are addicted to pornography! Additionally, the poll also reported that 20% of Christian women are addicted to sneaking a peek at others "doing it". Refreshing the reader's memory, these "porn again" Christians belong to the same group of revisionists that fervently lined up and espoused former Attorney General, John Ashcroft's "Crusade against Porn" and stridently called for former President, Bill Clinton's impeachment for a minor infidelity while residing in the White House.

The website, Christianet.com, can only be described as a cornucopia of naked pandering of Christianity for profit and a brazen marketing of faith-based propaganda. A quick review of the site will find links on everything from "Christian jobs" to "Christian insurance" and the ubiquitous "Christian favorite", "Chick-fil-A." With an aficionado list of religious-right favorites from "Obeying the Creationist View" to the "Chief-in-Pharisee" himself, George W. Bush, the website abruptly turns more venal than venereal.



Another salacious tidbit from their "poll on porn for Christians" is that, "60% of the women who answered the survey confessed having significant struggles with lust." Furthermore, "40% admitted to being involved in sexual sin in the past year." When a website offers such sinfully rich items to choose from like, "Second Glance", a set of CD's that intimate that an averted glance of sexual nuance ostensibly reveals you are going straight to the arms of Satan for such wantonness of admiration; it's no wonder these women have "struggles with lust".


The poll moreover feigns an implication that no one is immune from the "vice-grip clutches of sexual addictive behaviors" and that "repeated attempts at sexual gratification" can fell even the most stalwartly of faith-followers, including deacons and even clergy. What the poll in truth denotes is even more empirical evidence that we are creatures of a sexual nature that inevitably will follow our primordial instincts and yearn for that which we find pleasing to the eye and pleasurable to our senses. Clergy and deacons - or any other human's for that matter - insatiable appetites for sexual gratification is purely an untainted attempt to honor our hormonally driven instinct to "spread our seed" and to continually re-populate the Earth. Sans any physical gratification, as Cooper and Jones rather dismally propose as a means to salvation, Homo sapiens would quickly fall extinct.


While the poll on porn among practicing Christians evokes evidence of an addiction to portrayals of hedonistic acts, a closer examination will reveal an addiction of another kind. It has been said that prostitution is the oldest profession in the world. What the sanctimonious among us are in actuality addicted to is the hawking of old-fashion prostitution. Not prostitution in the literal "street walker" sense, but the degraded, twisted misuse and shameless sale of something of invaluable significance, in this case the Golden Rule of life, in exchange for power, politics and profits.
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Authors Website: http://www.ranellirants.blogspot.com

Authors Bio: Frank J. Ranelli is a free-lance political writer, researcher and author. In addition, he is an activist and advocate for the progression of peace and the advancement of the Democratic Party. He currently focuses his journalism on educating people of the dangers of the Bush administration, election reform issues, how the war in Iraq is immoral and why the impeachment of President George W. Bush is necessary to restore our democracy. His writing has been well-received and widely published in a variety of news outlets and across the Internet. His "smartly-written and imagery invoking" articles have earned him such praise as, "Written with directness, strength, passion...It's great when it smacks, glares, grabs one!" -Ms. Joyce Benedict, Park Guide for FDR Historic Site

[electropop]

1. I'm shocked! SHOCKED!

Who'd have thought - hypocrisy in the Christian right?

[GeorgeGist]

2. Ahh the smell of fresh brewed ...

hypocrisy in the morning. Thank God I'm not a Christian.

[enuffs_enuffs]

3. Save me from... MYSELF!

No wonder they seek out father figure-protect all god heads... and politicians.

[CoffeeCat]

4. Just a hunch...

My guess is that there are a boatload of sexual deviants who use religion to cover up their "sins."

Sexual deviants, especially child molesters, build up very complex and thick walls of denial around themselves. In order to self preserve, they deny who they truly are by building another reality for themselves, in which they are religious, moral people. I'm sure many of them turn to religion---and the practice of masquerading as a highly religious person--to feed the denial and pummel their true selves further into the basement.

Religion, for many sexual deviants, is simply food for the denial monster that prevents them from dealing with their authentic selves.

I've read several studies on pedophiles. Pedophiles cut across all socioeconomic levels and it's hard to pin down a "typical" pedophile. However, one common trait does stand out--most studies indicate that the majority of convicted pedophiles describe themselves as "very religious."

[IntravenousDemilo]

6. Back when I was a child in the '60s, my mother the agnostic used to say...

"Religious people!" she said, meaning Christians, because we lived in Saskatchewan and there weren't a lot of anything else at the time, "Religious people think they can lie and whore and cheat and steal and beat the shit out of their wives, and then go and confess it, and that will make it all right."

This is the woman who'd send me to Sunday school "just to see what the bastards are getting up to."

[liberalmuse]

5. Now they want to remove porn from hotels...

I say we get a group together demanding that they remove the Bibles from hotel rooms.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. hear's a novel idea -

leave both bibles and porn in hotels, and let people choose.

Actually, leaving the porn in is the christian thing to do - how's that thing go? "Without temptation there can be no virtue". Not watching porn because there is no porn is not a sign of virtue; virtue would be not watching it when it is readily available.

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. "hear's"?

too late to edit.

doh

[stopbush]

8. Poor Bill Bennett! It's bad enough losing millions in Vegas,

but how much worse will it be for the nation's Top Scold if he can't go
back to his hotel room for a major whack-off session to assuage his
bruised pocketbook?

[Porcupine]

10. 50% Addicted to Porn. 40% Liars 10% in poor health.

As near as I can tell humans LOVE porn. Male humans and female humans. Given the opportunity to view porn in a context where they absolutely cannot be observed most humans will gladly indulge.

Funny these "Christians" don't seem to be too concerned with usery or gluttony (covetousness) both of which are highly offensive to dog if you count bible mentions.

I have yet to see a crowd of Christians picketing a check cashing palace despite the fact that they are a)harmfull and b) explicitly and repeatedly forbidden in biblical text. Yet abortion which is not mentioned in biblical texts is a major source of public wailing. WTF??