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do you allow your religious beliefs to affect your sexual behaviour?
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Little Girl Red
WOAH gross over generalisation. I'm a young person and can fully relate to the teachings of Christ. And I'm sure that there are many young people who don't agree with sex before marriage purely on the principle rather than religious reasons (indeed, I have come across a few on TSR).
Also, I don't see how you can sum up all of Christ's teachings by using this one example. What about his teachings about telling the truth, or not bitching about others, or being respectful to your parents, or treating people as you would like to be treated yourself, etc etc etc. Are you telling me that you can relate to none of these?
Sex before marriage requires sacrifice, of course it does. And in today's society, it is a sacrifice that is hard to make, I'll be honest with you. BUT its not impossible. I've been with my boyfriend for almost 2 years now. I know loads of other young Christian couples who abide by the Word of God.
In my opinion, just because the morals of society have slipped (and I'm not just talking about sex before mariage here), it doesn't necessarily mean that the standards of God have slipped also.
It is easy for young people nowadays to relate to the teachings of God. It just means a personal sacrifice, as it has done since it was written down (I'm sure the young people 2000 years ago were horny as hell too), and nowadays most people aren't prepared to make that sacrifice.
Also, I don't see how you can sum up all of Christ's teachings by using this one example. What about his teachings about telling the truth, or not bitching about others, or being respectful to your parents, or treating people as you would like to be treated yourself, etc etc etc. Are you telling me that you can relate to none of these?
Sex before marriage requires sacrifice, of course it does. And in today's society, it is a sacrifice that is hard to make, I'll be honest with you. BUT its not impossible. I've been with my boyfriend for almost 2 years now. I know loads of other young Christian couples who abide by the Word of God.
In my opinion, just because the morals of society have slipped (and I'm not just talking about sex before mariage here), it doesn't necessarily mean that the standards of God have slipped also.
It is easy for young people nowadays to relate to the teachings of God. It just means a personal sacrifice, as it has done since it was written down (I'm sure the young people 2000 years ago were horny as hell too), and nowadays most people aren't prepared to make that sacrifice.
aren't u the one who had sex with her boyfriend and then decided to wait ?
If your beliefs don't affect your life, then are they truely beliefs?
Obviously in some situations, they're very unlikely to affect you, but we're talking religion here - which is as big a commitment as marriage.
From a Christian viewpoint, we're called upon to set ourself apart from the majority - there's that famous Bible verse "Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do".
Obviously, what I do in private is a matter for my conscience, but in public, people look at Christians who are "promiscous", and either say "Yeah, that must be great if *she*'s doing it", or "Look at what hypocrites modern Christians are".
I would, however, question the veracity of linking to a webpage to show what your sexual practises should be. I appreciate the OP is a Roman Catholic, but as a Christian, I prefer to verify such things in (at least one version of, preferably two) the Bible... I don't really give two hoots what the American Lutherian Church thinks (lets face it, most Christians have pretty simillar views) - I don't care what any church thinks - beauracracy is a well-known way of messing things up. It's purely a matter for me, God, and whoever I choose to discuss it with
Obviously in some situations, they're very unlikely to affect you, but we're talking religion here - which is as big a commitment as marriage.
From a Christian viewpoint, we're called upon to set ourself apart from the majority - there's that famous Bible verse "Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do".
Obviously, what I do in private is a matter for my conscience, but in public, people look at Christians who are "promiscous", and either say "Yeah, that must be great if *she*'s doing it", or "Look at what hypocrites modern Christians are".
I would, however, question the veracity of linking to a webpage to show what your sexual practises should be. I appreciate the OP is a Roman Catholic, but as a Christian, I prefer to verify such things in (at least one version of, preferably two) the Bible... I don't really give two hoots what the American Lutherian Church thinks (lets face it, most Christians have pretty simillar views) - I don't care what any church thinks - beauracracy is a well-known way of messing things up. It's purely a matter for me, God, and whoever I choose to discuss it with
The difference between own morals and religious morals, IMO, is that religions give their set of morals that you should live by, whereas morals you come to conclusions about yourself. My morals do affect my life in terms of how I live - I would never cheat on a partner, for example. Just because I don't actively do anything doesn't mean I don't follow them.
Due to the state of my sex life at the moment i've decided to convert to Islam. I've now changed my name to Seldom Bin Laid.
minimo
That's got my rep allocation for today 
lol. Why, thank you.
Poica
Shinytoy - you give religious people all over the world a bad name through your small minded, ignorant and preachy posts.
To be fair she is Catholic so may we should be glad she isn't selling tickets to heaven, seeking relief off little boys or locking up and torturing "sinful" women (e.g. rape victims) in Magdalene asylums...
shinytoy
let me get this right.
most people in this country and indeed the world are christian or muslim
so most people who have a religion and are taking this poll are likely to be one of these
therefore from this poll most people are not having sex at all, except for atheists??
most people in this country and indeed the world are christian or muslim
so most people who have a religion and are taking this poll are likely to be one of these
therefore from this poll most people are not having sex at all, except for atheists??
Why's that so hard to believe? We're students, many of these people will most likely be still at school.
From the poll, the figure is ~50%, which I don't find hard to believe at all - at our age, pressure from parents is still a factor. Many people won't even be in situations where sex is a possibility until university.
Oh, and you'd be very surpised how some people's minds work. I have a Catholic friend, who does have sex, but was petrified of going on the contraceptive pill, because her mother was dead set against it (I guess it's slightly harder to conceal, but it would be even harder to conceal a bad STI or a baby).
Shinytoy, in actual fact about 50% of teenage christians aged 15-19 have had sex outside of marriage. Bad statistic I know because I agree that if you call yourself a Christian then you should try and stick to the teachings, but its a very hard thing to overcome sometimes in the kind of society we live in and with our natural instincts 
and dont be too quick to point the finger.
and dont be too quick to point the finger.
shinytoy
this post is extremely disguisting and blasphemous. delete it at once , for the sake of your soul.
I'm not sure if you're serious or not.
If you are, its not blasphemous as its true. what may be evident was a coursness of language with regard to the word 'screwing' but apart from that its what aparently happened.
and as a roman catholic, the peoples souls you should truely be concerned about is a section of your church leadership.
No wonder their expressing sexuallness in deviant and criminal means, when they're natural human instincts, to love is being repressed.
Celibacy for clergy is wrong, they shouldnt comment on things they havent experienced.
El Scotto
I'm not sure if you're serious or not.
If you are, its not blasphemous as its true. what may be evident was a coursness of language with regard to the word 'screwing' but apart from that its what aparently happened.
and as a roman catholic, the peoples souls you should truely be concerned about is a section of your church leadership.
No wonder their expressing sexuallness in deviant and criminal means, when they're natural human instincts, to love is being repressed.
Celibacy for clergy is wrong, they shouldnt comment on things they havent experienced.
I'm not sure if you're serious or not.
If you are, its not blasphemous as its true. what may be evident was a coursness of language with regard to the word 'screwing' but apart from that its what aparently happened.
and as a roman catholic, the peoples souls you should truely be concerned about is a section of your church leadership.
No wonder their expressing sexuallness in deviant and criminal means, when they're natural human instincts, to love is being repressed.
Celibacy for clergy is wrong, they shouldnt comment on things they havent experienced.
I agree. And I doubt shinytoy is joking on that (now deleted) post.
MasterTonberry
Why shouldn't there be many atheists?
Because I wonder how many of them are actually athiests.
Edit: As in, how many people believe in a God but just aren't religious (like me) and how many of those 58% are just athiests. I'd put my money on the former.
To answer the question, I'm not particularly religious anymore. Even when I was, I didn't agree with the teachings on sex. So the answer is no, I didn't/don't allow religion to affect my sex life.
I'm more interested in the actual 'performance' part of the question. Once, for example, a Catholic girl loses her virginity, inside of a loving and harmonious marriage, is she likely to then be equally as sexually adventurous as her non-catholic counterpart? Is it then ok for her to become fascinated with porn and orgies etc...
...or is it a whole different outlook on sex: as sex for procreation as opposed to some other hedonistic pursuit?
...or is it a whole different outlook on sex: as sex for procreation as opposed to some other hedonistic pursuit?
shinytoy
the two main religions -christianity and islam both dont allow homosexuality.the reason i put it seperate to the 'no i dont agree with the sexual teachings' is in case being gay is genetic disposition which cant be helped in which case it is not an active choice not to agree with sexukla teachings, whereas for heteros it is.
i didnt say they did, did I? buddism allows it (see my link in the first post) in which case if you are buddist and you do follow the guidelines ie no sex unless you love the person and not hurt them, then you HAVE followed and agreed with the teachings, in which case the top answer is most appropriate
i didnt say they did, did I? buddism allows it (see my link in the first post) in which case if you are buddist and you do follow the guidelines ie no sex unless you love the person and not hurt them, then you HAVE followed and agreed with the teachings, in which case the top answer is most appropriate
Shinytoy you are mistaken. Christianity DOES allow homosexuality. You can be an open 100% homosexual and be fully accepted by all the Christian churches.
Homoseuxal ACTS are forbidden, NOT homosexuality. You can be as gay as you want as long as it stays in your head. Please edit your post as it is misleading.
MasterTonberry
Why shouldn't there be many atheists?
Yeah sadly there are many of us
Pandy
Because I wonder how many of them are actually athiests.
Edit: As in, how many people believe in a God but just aren't religious (like me) and how many of those 58% are just athiests. I'd put my money on the former.
To answer the question, I'm not particularly religious anymore. Even when I was, I didn't agree with the teachings on sex. So the answer is no, I didn't/don't allow religion to affect my sex life.
Edit: As in, how many people believe in a God but just aren't religious (like me) and how many of those 58% are just athiests. I'd put my money on the former.
To answer the question, I'm not particularly religious anymore. Even when I was, I didn't agree with the teachings on sex. So the answer is no, I didn't/don't allow religion to affect my sex life.
Well in that case i'm the latter, as i don't believe in god. Its not just that i'm not religious (tho surely if you believe in god you'd consider yourself to be religious?)
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