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%TRANSCENDING SEXUALITY 771021
Each sexual relationship and act tends to remind us
of our finitude and eventual death in that sexual
relationships originated in relationships which occasion
the replacement of the participants. Thus, through fear
sex is taboo to those of us seeking to deny finitude and
death; i.e., seeking to be like God. Often we dress such
arrogance in religious clothes---and pretend that we are
serving to God in our efforts to transcend our sexuality
and need for affection. We rationalize our fear of our
death which is made necessary by sexual reproduction, and
pretend that rational control of our sexual desires and
instincts is what God requires of us. Through the use of
words in various combinations we arrogantly presume to be
more like God than like his multitude of transient
creatures. We believe that in the beginning was the word,
rather than sexual relationship. We thus develop images of
a rational universe, rather than a sexual universe.
Analysis, rather than union, becomes ultimate. Separation,
rather than combination, becomes the basic human process.
Thus our presumptuous arrogance which we regard as Godly
leads us to fragmentation and alienation; through blocked
and broken communication to the condition of sin and the
fruits of sin.
Our rebellious dishonesty does not make us become
like God. It leads us to foolish acts which are not in
accord with the nature of our reality. Instead of
transcending our sexuality and flying high above it, we
bury it in the dark places of repression, frustration,
anger, and violence---within ourselves, others, and the
structures of our society. When we have buried our
sexuality it drags us down into the places where we have
buried an essential aspect of our nature. We become as the
places which our essential aspects frequent.
We need to stop behaving like fools and seek
enlightened ways to fulfill our God-given sexual desires
within relationships of meaningful Love---which is not
enslaved by rationalizations, arrogance, presumptuous
dishonesty, hypocrisy, and other bars to meaningful union.
Only when we learn to accept and meaningfully fulfill our
sexual desires---can we be one with each other and with
God.
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