Comments on: Dance Dance Ministry! http://www.ewav.com/2006/06/05/dance-dance-ministry/ We put the naked pontificating in clog dancing. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:05:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Carla http://www.ewav.com/2006/06/05/dance-dance-ministry/#comment-3792 Carla Mon, 05 Jun 2006 23:07:33 +0000 http://www.ewav.com/ncd/2006/06/05/dance-dance-ministry/#comment-3792 So the title of this seminar you went to scared the Bjesus out of me... as I've been reading a lot of Dan Savage's accounts on the Christian/right-wing's war on Women and straight rights... So I googled the phrase: "Single Women in the Body of Christ" And came up with this indirectly-related, but scary article: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/005/34.28.html Containing this enlightening quote, which conjured for me a clarity finally of what all this christian uptightness is about... it's because Christianity is supposed to be slavery... you are Owned by "Jesus" and do not have rights of what to do with your body! Not just gays, or undesiredly pregnant women, but all people. "Sex is, in Paul's image, a joining of your body to someone else's. In baptism, you have become Christ's body, and it is Christ's body that must give you permission to join his body to another body. In the Christian grammar, we have no right to sex. The place where the church confers that privilege on you is the wedding; weddings grant us license to have sex with one person. Chastity, in other words, is a fact of gospel life. In the New Testament, sex beyond the boundaries of marriage—the boundaries of communally granted sanction of sex—is simply off limits. To have sex outside those bounds is to commit an offense against the body." Holy Crap. So the title of this seminar you went to scared the Bjesus out of me… as I’ve been reading a lot of Dan Savage’s accounts on the Christian/right-wing’s war on Women and straight rights…
So I googled the phrase:
“Single Women in the Body of Christ”

And came up with this indirectly-related, but scary article:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/005/34.28.html

Containing this enlightening quote, which conjured for me a clarity finally of what all this christian uptightness is about… it’s because Christianity is supposed to be slavery… you are Owned by “Jesus” and do not have rights of what to do with your body! Not just gays, or undesiredly pregnant women, but all people.

“Sex is, in Paul’s image, a joining of your body to someone else’s. In baptism, you have become Christ’s body, and it is Christ’s body that must give you permission to join his body to another body. In the Christian grammar, we have no right to sex. The place where the church confers that privilege on you is the wedding; weddings grant us license to have sex with one person. Chastity, in other words, is a fact of gospel life. In the New Testament, sex beyond the boundaries of marriage—the boundaries of communally granted sanction of sex—is simply off limits. To have sex outside those bounds is to commit an offense against the body.”

Holy Crap.

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