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    %GOD SEX ULTIMATE CONCERN IDOL WORSHIP IDOLATRY 950814

     Sexual  relationships  play central  roles  in  human
lives.    The importance of healthy  sexual  relationships
cannot  be  denied  without  there  being   disintegrative
consequences.   At the same time it is idolatrous to  make
"proper"  sexual behavior the  matter of ultimate concern,
and to disintegrate  personal  and  communal  integrity in
punishments for "improper"  sexual behavior.   To do so is
to make codes of "proper"  sexual behavior in into  idols,
and to  sacrifice personal and communal integrity to those
idols.    Such  idolatry  is  itself  the  cause  of  many
disintegrative  sexual relationships on the part of people
who  are  lost in the absence of a healthy social  context
which supports healthy sexual relationships.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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