"Donald Trump’s trade war was also a massive tax increase on American consumers. In May 2019, AEI called TrumpTrade “equivalent to one of the largest tax increases in decades.”" It also resulted in one of the largest increases in the welfare state since Obamacare, with direct subsidies to farmers to make up for the tariffs, including up to $46 billion just in 2020 alone.
Sex addiction does not lead to murder. Teaching a child that he is sick and twisted for wanting sex can and has lead to murder as its much easier to "remove the temptation" than to realize your religion is lying to you. That is what the SBC teaches their kids, and yes they do bare some responsibility.
So you weren't taught that sex outside marriage was a sin? And you weren't taught that sin was an abomination to God? Because you put those two things together and a child who has even thoughts about sex will come to the conclusion he is an abomination to God.
Now lets put that lesson to a man who is addicted to sex. So much so he goes to parlors where they will fed his addiction for a price. And he just can't stop. Is it really such a stretch that this man could lash out in his self hate? He is told repeatedly by his church that him doing this makes him an abomination to God. And I can point you to a million youtube sermons where this is exactly what is taught. So what can this person do? He can't stop himself, he's tried countless times. But what if those parlors weren't there for him to feed his addiction?
I was taught that sex outside marriage was sinful, but not that sex was wrong in and of itself.
The difference is that I was taught that God hates sin but loves the sinner. If the conclusion he reached was that he sinned and therefore was an abomination to God, that was a conclusion that he reached on his own. It's not something Baptists teach.
Also, if he thinks that he is an abomination for his sexual sin, wouldn't he be an even worse abomination if he became a murderer?
FWIW one of my pastors at a Baptist church wrote a book on sex that I helped to proofread. You can still get it on Amazon. (I'm in the acknowledgments.)
David French wrote an essay this morning that perfectly illustrates what I experienced as a teen in the christian church in the 90s. Dad's disowning their kids because they got a bj. Kids forced into classes and women shamed and ostracized if they had so much as a knee cap or their should blades exposed. 9 out of every 10 sermons were about sex and they were taught that your whole life bent on you staying a virgin. I went to camps and such where thousands of kids were taught and made to follow this type of christianity. I did not realize that it had not enveloped the whole community. That said, a very real and prevelent order of christianity preverted his man's mind, and as such, it bares the blame.
"Donald Trump’s trade war was also a massive tax increase on American consumers. In May 2019, AEI called TrumpTrade “equivalent to one of the largest tax increases in decades.”" It also resulted in one of the largest increases in the welfare state since Obamacare, with direct subsidies to farmers to make up for the tariffs, including up to $46 billion just in 2020 alone.
Sex addiction does not lead to murder. Teaching a child that he is sick and twisted for wanting sex can and has lead to murder as its much easier to "remove the temptation" than to realize your religion is lying to you. That is what the SBC teaches their kids, and yes they do bare some responsibility.
I grew up in the SBC and was not taught that. I don’t know anyone who was.
So you weren't taught that sex outside marriage was a sin? And you weren't taught that sin was an abomination to God? Because you put those two things together and a child who has even thoughts about sex will come to the conclusion he is an abomination to God.
Now lets put that lesson to a man who is addicted to sex. So much so he goes to parlors where they will fed his addiction for a price. And he just can't stop. Is it really such a stretch that this man could lash out in his self hate? He is told repeatedly by his church that him doing this makes him an abomination to God. And I can point you to a million youtube sermons where this is exactly what is taught. So what can this person do? He can't stop himself, he's tried countless times. But what if those parlors weren't there for him to feed his addiction?
I was taught that sex outside marriage was sinful, but not that sex was wrong in and of itself.
The difference is that I was taught that God hates sin but loves the sinner. If the conclusion he reached was that he sinned and therefore was an abomination to God, that was a conclusion that he reached on his own. It's not something Baptists teach.
Also, if he thinks that he is an abomination for his sexual sin, wouldn't he be an even worse abomination if he became a murderer?
FWIW one of my pastors at a Baptist church wrote a book on sex that I helped to proofread. You can still get it on Amazon. (I'm in the acknowledgments.)
https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Bedroom-David-B-Reid/dp/0982711115
David French wrote an essay this morning that perfectly illustrates what I experienced as a teen in the christian church in the 90s. Dad's disowning their kids because they got a bj. Kids forced into classes and women shamed and ostracized if they had so much as a knee cap or their should blades exposed. 9 out of every 10 sermons were about sex and they were taught that your whole life bent on you staying a virgin. I went to camps and such where thousands of kids were taught and made to follow this type of christianity. I did not realize that it had not enveloped the whole community. That said, a very real and prevelent order of christianity preverted his man's mind, and as such, it bares the blame.