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lol... with all these rwing Puritan BS Ps around 'Murica, people forget who THEY say created men, women, sex, wine, and roses! (And whose God is Love and Light)
"Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love" (Proverbs 5:19).
"Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies" (Song of Solomon 4:5, 7:3)
Medium actually has a pretty good article about lust:
"Jesus isn't condemning attraction itself or our ability to notice someone's sexiness or magnetism; He's condemning hypocrisy (breaking covenant while claiming righteousness) and dehumanization (reducing another human into a boundary-less object for your satisfaction).
Hypocrisy and dehumanization = bad.
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"The problem comes later, when interpreters flattened everything to produce political capital: desire - lust - adultery - all sex outside hetero marriage.
That collapse discards nuance, erases Song of Solomon, and erases the lives of people whose longing doesn't fit those lines of hetero marriage" single people, bi people, queer people."
more at the link
rossvictory.medium.com
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