Why men hate church

[Aquila]

Randy's post brings up another thing... male sexuality is a rather touchy subject in Christianity. Here's Bond making it clear that he's flirting...

As Christian men... we're almost expected to be a-sexual beings until after marriage. Everything is sin until you get married... even looking. I was told that to even fantasize about the woman you wanted to marry was a sin. I told him... "If I can't imagine or see myself sleeping with her. I'm not marrying her." And he rebuked me. I don't even think he thought about what I was really saying.

Everything about a man's desire is potential hell fire in Christianity. It's not that way in many other religions. Is the church a place where a man can be proud to be a man... and have the desires of a man? Or must he disguise he's manhood behind a religious vanier? Many men bear a near constant sense of guilt... for just being men.

It shocked me about how down right practical and frank Islam is about male desire.