How does religion profit from a doctrine that makes people feel guilty for natural bodily functions?
All of us are born with an inner sense of right and wrong. Even a 3 year old child who is sneaking a cookie tries to conceal this from his mother because he senses it is wrong. We don’t need to “feel guilty” about having these material tendencies – after all we have millions of years of physical evolution embedded in our bodies. However since we don’t have the same set of guiding and restraining forces that other animals have which we call instincts, we are left with this small inner voice that requires further education, which we call morals. The physical urges and drives are not “wrong” but it is a mistake to let them rule our lives. They need to be trained and disciplined to serve our purposes, not frustrate them. Faithfulness in marriage helps preserve the love between husband and wife, whereas cheating is, well, cheating. If we don’t discipline our urge to eat, we become slaves to the “pleasure” of eating – and also obese, sick and depressed. You can see that all of our physically
I will give you a simple answer Men feel very bad about raising other men’s children I think this is a natural reaction since men evolved from animals If you see the animals , if a male gets a new bride after competition, the first thing that male does is to kill the children of the previous male. Lions actually eat them . Hah ha , little cute snacks. Hence the men write it in the religious books as evil. However if you feel good about naturally producing children from anybody and everybody , go ahead , but plz do it outside the marriage , for if you do it within the marriage , your man may have a natural reaction which originates from the ancient natural world.
