It’s Easier to De-Sex the World than to De-God It
After reading yet another diatribe about the evil and harm that religion has done to humanity I decided to write (and not publish) a ranty blog post about how human sexuality has brought far more harm and suffering to humanity than religion, and unlike religion we actually know how to medically remove testosterone from the equation. Plenty of science fiction has imagined a more “rational” means of managing reproduction than the current method.
How much chaos could we eliminate from humanity by de-sexing the species? No rape, no molestation, no lust, no pornography, no body-image issues, no romantic jealousy and probably a huge decline in domestic violence. Take our biological drive for sex out of the equation it would seem would get us far closer to John Lennon’s “Imagine” world than “no god and no religion too”. Wasn’t it John’s wanting Yoko that killed the Beatles?
While no one seems interested in de-sexing the species, last week’s New York Times had a “Room for Debate” piece on de-gendering it. 5 of the 6 seemed at least at some level in favor of it. While no one seems interested in de-sexing the world, a seemingly large group of Westerners not only believe but promote the idea that to de-gender society would be an improvement. Including the Episcopal Church of Connecticut apparently.
Christians as Destructive Prudes
At least in the West Christianity has been case in this narrative as the bastion of patriarchy, purity culture and both gender and sexual regressivism. Many have suggested to the church that if it would only lay off about talking about sex, then everyone would be cool with her. (Church is usually a “her” BTW in the traditional Christian narrative because she is the bride of Christ who is a “him” from the book of Revelation.)
The Roman Catholic church, one of the most global church structures and famously conservative just hosted a major Synod do discuss its traditional practices concerning “the family“. Protestant churches are known for being far quicker to respond to local cultural trends and so have been predictably all over the map on these issues from complete accommodation to the most vocal and angrily reactive.
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