How “Christian Sexual Morality” is not necessarily better than “Secular Sex Ethics” The secular mind is not impressed by Christian claims to sexual morality: “I find it interesting that none of them can answer this simple question: Why is sex considered “unclean”?…
The problem here is not humanist “immorality”, but Christian sexual repression. Christian moderates can usually agree with humanists on matters of human rights, or what classical philosophers described as the “dignity of Man”, but they often agree with their fundamentalist peers when it comes to sexuality. Christians tend to view sex as a love of the flesh which draws people away from God and is therefore immoral (since allegiance to God is paramount in their moral code)… What the Hell is so damned bad about sex? Fundamentalists are notoriously narrow-minded, and they tend to assume that their bizarre equation of “sex=immorality” is universal. However, this is completely untrue, even among religions. Not only do atheists uphold sex as natural and beautiful, but Taoists uphold it as part of their religion, and many polytheistic religions even have special gods or goddesses devoted entirely to sexuality! Could it be that the early Israelites knew that in order to build a religion upon
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