Reply #131: My theory is that some 1500 years ago, [View All]

One of the early Popes (or his advisors) realised that if they both made virtually every possible sexual act a sin and cornered the market on issuing lisences to screw, they had what ammounted to total control of their congregations.

Virtually everyone wants to have sex, and large proportion of those will take sex whenever and wherever they can get it. Allways have and allways will. Even if ones only partner is Rosy Palm and her five daughters. And it's a rare bird indeed who has never entertained a lustful thought.

They define the rules in such a way as to make virtually every man and woman a sinner and strangely one's only hope of redemption is to fill a pew and fill the plate on it's way past.