Ain't it the truth! : (

Throughout the early centuries of Christianity, when every kind of sexual behavior ever known to the human race was widely practiced throughout ancient Greek and Roman society, the Christians, like the Jews, insisted that sexual activity was to be restricted to the marriage of a man and a woman. The rest of the world, then as now, thought they were mad. The difference, alas, is that today half the church seems to think so, too.—N. T. Wright, Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense, 232

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I admit, I laugh when people tell me how sexually debased the US is. Sure, it's not a moral citadel, but if you read (especially) Greek history … well, in comparison we are a moral citadel! Of course, that's not to justify it!

But, as Wright says, what is different is that too many in the church have decided that scripture is wrong and society is correct. That is new and, well, to my mind, wrong. Amos's vision of the plumb line (Amos 7:8–9) comes to mind, as does his intercessory prayer (Amos 7:2, 5). That's been my prayer for over ten years now, that YHWH would relent.
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