Dear My Twin - 03
Dear My Twin, On re-reading what I wrote yesterday (I ran out of time), I realized that I hadn't gotten to the second harmful teaching Evangelical christianity pushes on marriages. By harmful, I don't mean, "Ouch, I got a boo-boo," I mean, completely destructive. This teaching is being referred to as the "obligation sex message." It's a grotesque twisting of 1 Corinthians 7:4-5, "The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife. Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control." In this teaching, the wife becomes totally ignored as a mutual partner, and completely subjugated into a sex object for "his release" (to quote "Love & Respect," a best selli...