Atheism and lust

So when we image that love of God properly with our sexuality then we become something of a portrait, a painting, of God to the world.

In other words sex in its pure form speaks a truth to the world: “God exists, He is real and He is Love”. This is evident in a family that sacrifices out of love for each other: the man lays down his life for his bride and the two lay down their lives for their child/children. When we see a family who truly and unselfishly love one another something resonates in our hearts. Something tells us that this is what life is all about. This is what real love is. This sort of love gives us hope and we love to see this sort of love in action. Hence the countless movies that are centered on a love story or a man who sacrifices his self out of love for his woman or his people. Movies like Braveheart, Titanic (where Jack dies saving Rose), and pretty much every other powerful, and lasting, love story share the same theme of self sacrificial love. This sort of love inspires us and gives us hope.

On the other hand sex in its forms of perversion, or lust, speaks a lie to the world: “There is no God. God is not love; he is a slave master and a dictator”. This is evident when we see a man who controls his wife and children through fear and abuse, when a person is raped and murdered for the sake of a climax, and when innocent little children are sexually abused, manipulated, and exploited. This sort of lust clashes with us at our deepest levels. This sort of lust goes against everything we know to be true, good, and beautiful. These sexual perversions cause us to lose faith and hope, not only in humanity but in a God who could allow such things to take place.

Many conclude that such a “loving” God could not exist, thus, atheism.

It seems to be that the popularity of atheism has risen very quickly since the advent of the sexual revolution. The sexual revolution’s message was “Have sex with who you want, whenever you want, for whatever reason you want”. I interpret that to mean “Forget the rules of sex defined by the ancient old Church. You define sex for yourself”.^[3]

As Dinesh D’Souza said about the atheist’s faith in no faith in his new book What’s So Great About Christianity: “Atheism is not primarily an intellectual revolt, it’s a moral one.” God, that’s got to hurt you guys because you pride yourself on being so wise . . . so sophisticated . . . and here he/we are saying that your atheism rises out of hedonism instead of intellectualism. Ouch. Need a bandaid?

Bertrand Russell: “The worst feature of the Christian religion is its attitude toward sex.”

Christopher Hitchens: “The divorce between the sexual life and fear . . . can now at last be attempted on the sole condition that we banish all religions from the discourse.”

Sounds like these atheist apostles are simply putting a nuevo twist on an ancient bent. They appear to be humming the Marquis de Sade’s tune more than Sagan’s. Looks and sounds like a moral revolt to me. Yes, this is Epicurus all over again.

You remember Epi, don’t cha? His whole goal was to “get rid of the gods.” He and his other pre-Socratic “thinkers” like Lucretius and Democritus didn’t like all that duty and responsibility to higher powers and fellow mortals crap. It put a hitch in their get along. It brought them pain and they liked pleasure. They believed that such an obligation to men and the gods caused too much anxiety. They didn’t like the thought of being responsible and having to account for their lives in the afterlife. Such thoughts really screwed with getting their groove on, ya know what I’m sayin’?^[4]