Sunday, May 12, 2013

I think there will come a time, perhaps sooner than later, when Christian beliefs regarding sex and sexuality will be viewed as antiquated and as absurd as Christian beliefs regarding astronomy in the 15th century. And those who refuse to accept the advances we’ve made in our understanding of sex and sexuality will be regarded as shamefully and willfully ignorant and cruel. If the Christian religion survives, I suspect the period we’re living in right now will be seen as a dark and embarrassing era which will serve as a reminder that some Christians can be profoundly stupid and hurtful. As time goes on, more and more people will come to realize that this game we’ve been playing at, this idea that there are strictly two sexes and everyone falls neatly into one or the other category, that the sexes need to be separated, that different roles need to be assigned to them and strictly enforced, that one sex needs to be the master of the other, and sexual pleasure needs to be confined to two married people of the opposite sex… I think all of that will one day be seen by nearly everyone on earth as silly and intellectually and morally bankrupt as believing we are at the center of the universe and everything we see in the sky is revolving around us.

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