Islam, Christianity and Sex

Dear J,
Excuse my repeated posting, but now I wish to hear your position clearly.
Please justify Mohammedism’s utter inability to handle the fact that we are erotic creatures.
Trading anecdotes, I haven’t met a monotheist who wasn’t neurotically uptight and defensive about what, in truth, is the core of our creative, generous and [...]

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Islam, Christianity and Sex

Dear J,
Perhaps I was a touch Socratic, by not positively asserting I have a strong system of objective ethics.
However, I take care, unlike totalitarian political Islam, to draw a few important distinctions. Eg
- the overriding principles of liberty of the individual, of conscience, and of expression
- negative & positive elements of [...]

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Islam, Christianity and Sex

Dear J,
I bracket these three sadly popular religions together as off-shoots of the Abrahamic myth. Mohammedism boasts it is the summation of that myth. Hardly an accolade.
If you doubt the possibility of objective ethics, those doubts aren’t dispelled by reciting ancient texts. Even given a coherent concept of a god, and [...]

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