Christians' Addiction to Porn Blamed on Technology

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/8411

Christians' Addiction to Porn Blamed on Technology
by Frank J Ranelli | Jun 29 2007


The Religious Right’s newest adversary of evangelicalism and outward disdain for pornography may have less to do with their distaste for it and more to do with the fact it is maxing out their credit cards.

Jerry Falwell may be dead, but the Moral Majority mob is still dealing out duplicity on issues of faith and flesh. In another dramatic display of heretical hypocrisy, a poll taken by the self-proclaimed "World's most Christian website", Christianet.com, found that a majority of Christian men – fifty-percent – are addicted to pornography! Additionally, the poll also reported that 20% of Christian women are keen to sneaking a peek at others fornicating for fun. Technology, in all its modern, unseemly depravity, it would presumably appear, is to blame.

Refreshing the reader's memory, these "porn again" Christians belong to the fomenting faction of virtuous prudes that fervently lined up and espoused former Attorney General John Ashcroft's "Crusade against Porn" and pleaded that the semi-nude, Art Deco statues – found in the halls of the Justice Department – have curtains draped over the exposed breasts of the sculptures. These same “modesty police” also stridently called for former President Bill Clinton's impeachment for a minor infidelity while residing in the White House. Being furtively naughty, it appears, is the new haughty for the holy.

Bill Cooper, President of Christianet.com, said, "We are seeing an escalation to the problem in both men and women who regularly attend church." The holy-roller Cooper, in usual self-righteous, sanctimonious style, offers his impressive imaginary reason for the increase: "Technology has allowed pornography to flood the marketplace beyond a controllable level." Evidently, Mr. Cooper feels he is having difficulty keeping his flock together and decided to blame his lack of dominion over the righteously duped on the grass of which they graze rather than the shepherd in charge of herding his sheeple.

The website, Christianet.com, can only be described as a cornucopia of naked pandering of Christianity for profit and a brazen marketing of faith-based propaganda. A quick review of the site will find links on everything from "Christian jobs" to "Christian insurance" and the ubiquitous Christian favorite, "Chick-fil-A." With an aficionado list of religious-right favorites from "Obeying the Creationist View" to the "Chief-in-Pharisee" himself, George W. Bush, the website abruptly turns more venal than venereal.

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The Christian-right’s affinity for porn – and the need to scorn it – is simply a Full-Monte display of heresy and sacrilege. Thus, this proves once again that the most egregious offenders of the Christian faith, who cannot control their own excesses and indulgences, must forever assign blame and find fault with everyone else but themselves. This time, it’s technology taking the rap.
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a rise...

I can feel the resurrection coming....

...who'd a thunk it?

Any time these fine folks want to swim to Antarctica - you know, to escape the evils of technology - is fine by me.

Not... SATAN?

sex like I've got. I never have had any interest in porn.

Something about that rigid mindset and authoritarianism makes them want desperately to break taboos, I guess.

What would Jesus download?

Use the noodle the lord gave you: The real reason Ashcroft draped Lady Liberty’s bare breasts was that he got a woody every time he walked through the lobby of the Justice Department.

Get thee behind me 17” flat screen monitor.

Thou shalt not covet they neighbors C.D.s

Now only if they'd take the route of the Amish...

to turn all their porn into us, and then after they comply and have their "donations" of product and cash, tell them it is all "within", sell the porn and voila, a fast buck from the troubled. They think they had a problem, we did, a lack of money. We solved both.

Technology may enable them to find porn, but it doesn't force-feed it to them.

Their wacko religion denies them any healthy sexual expression; indeed, with the truly irrational attitudes towards women and men and their "roles" in life, a healthy mind isn't probable (I won't say impossible, but very unlikely).

And the conflict between what they need, and what they get is driving them crazy--and they are driving the rest of us crazy. Stopping the "religion" would fix it, like taking the kink out of the garden hose.

But then I am not repressed Christian either. I have a healthy appetite and consider that to be normal and nothing to be ashamed of.

Helps avoid critical introspection. I might be disappointed with what I find...although for people who live in the middle of nowhere with no acceptable partners of the opposite sex within 100 miles or so, I can imagine the whole "personal demons" thing might be a tad overblown.

As this is the last place to get actual " news" in america, denying access to it on the grounds it is a porn enabler will keep the faithful from learning the truth - about anything.