Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Which came first: the close-minded evangelical or the close-minded "open-minded" evangelical hater?

As usual, i'm having trouble swallowing the bull. So you get to benefit from my upset tummy. A seminary friend posted a link to an article. In this article, the columnist, begrudgingly lauds a mega church pastor, Ed Young, for encouraging couples to have sex.

The guy seems surprised. He seems surprised both that this Evangelical says this and that no one else proposed this campaign earlier. Why? The columnist goes on to recount the hundreds of health benefits to an olympic sex life. Why would no one have recommended such a steady diet before?!?!

Well, if you think about it, NO one but an evangelical should recommend lots of sex. If you are an evangelical by choice, you are much more likely to be chaste or in a committed monogamous relationship and you're both far more likely to have had no other partners, or at least fewer. If that is not the case, a steady diet of sex is more likely to be harmful due to the plethora of venereal diseases out there.

The logic is astounding, yes? i'm amazed at how little thought the average person puts into the words that come out of their mouth, let alone the extra steps of typing and editing. (i hereby excuse myself from that group since i have no editor) :-D

*this article was written by a self-defining non-evangelical evangelist

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