(Ron) Catholic sexual ethics

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> April

>

> Don't avoid the issue!  It doesn't matter whether the percentage of

> priests who sexually molest kids is 1 or 50 - the POINT is that being

> Catholic does NOT prevent people from engaging in sexual behavior

> that you (and most people with regards to pedophillia) find immoral!

> Answer the issue, Ron - if people are atheists primarily to avoid

> sexual restrictions, and if being religious (Catholic) keeps people

> on the sexual "straight and narrow" then why are there ANY pedophillic

> priests, let alone as many as there are?  And why aren't we seeing

> large numbers of atheists being convicted for pedophillia?

>

> RON

>   You make two errors.

>   1.I never suggested that religion (Christian or otherwise) keeps

> people on the straight and narrow. Only that most atheists become such

> because of sexual convenience. Christians still have to struggle with

> their self-control.

>   2. You assume that pedophilia is the greatest sexual tendancy. For

> that matter there is no reason to believe that a lage portion of all

> pedophiles are not atheists.

>   Whether some priests are pedophiles, murderers, whatever, has no

> bearing on the fact that atheism is an easy out for those who do not

> wish to conform to Judeo-Christian (or Buddhist, etc.)morality. If you

> are one of those people you know it, or at least have nagging doubts. I

> hope you will be honest with yourself.

>

>


LARRY

Perhaps I missed something.

What specific evidence do you have to suggest that Atheists become such
because of sexual convenience? I assure you that I was far more sexually
promiscuous before I became an Atheist. Now, I am Atheist, happily married
with two children and utterly faithful to my wife.

Since Atheists make up such a small portion of the population, I would
venture that a far larger number of Christians are sexually promiscuous
than Atheists. Does this suggest that Christianity causes someone to be
sexually promiscuous or that people ‘choose’ Christianity because of sexual
convenience? Certainly not. What it does suggest is that it is unnecessary
for someone to become an Atheist in order to become or justify becoming
sexually promiscuous.

Larry D. Enger
Although there are many things I do not know, there is nothing I cannot
know, given the time and the interest to learn it.

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