It's Time for More Christians to Get 'Sexually Explicit'

Writing about sexual morality in the mid-twentieth century, C.S. Lewis concluded that the world's "great relaxation and simplifying" of the rules of modesty, or standards of propriety, while not necessarily a bad thing, presents this "inconvenience."  He wrote: "People of different ages and different types do not all acknowledge the same standard, and [thus] we hardly know where we are." Lewis goes on to point out: There is no getting away from it: the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence." Now this is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that obviously either Christianity is wrong or our sexual instinct, as it now is [remember, "now" was the mid-twentieth century], has gone wrong. One or the other. Of course, being a Christian, I think it is the instinct which has gone wrong. Lewis was — and is —...(Read Full Article)
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