Little Ball of H**e wrote:
There are 19 million new cases of sexually t***smitted disease in America every year. Don't you think things would be different if everyone waited until marriage to have sex, then remained faithful to their partner? This isn't a religious issue. It a common sense issue. Even if there was no God telling not to have sex outside of marriage, it's just plain common sense not to. At least to people with common sense it is. That, obviously, does not include you.
No, I disagree; it is a religious issue. Love today has been emptied of T***h and polluted with false meanings. True love, agape, means to care deeply, to serve, to give one's life, if need be for the one loved. The greatest example of this is the giver of love, God. Love today means anything but giving. In fact, it has come to mean not giving but taking. Love is not agape anymore; it is lust. It is manipulating or using the other person for one's selfish gratification or profit. It treats people as disposable as a used Kleenex. It has done away with that deep giving of oneself called commitment in favor of just living together not "until death do we part," but until some other meaningful relationship comes along. Once God is removed from life, words such as love lose their meaning. For how can we know what true love is without God Who alone is love? Without God sacred words such as love become polluted and identified with the sewer experiences of life.
Another word that has been denuded of T***h and lost its meaning is the word sex. It is a word that has all but been taken over by the devil. It has been polluted with every kind of uncleanness. Yet sex, like love, belongs to God. He is the One who made it. After creating man and woman and ordering them to multiply, God not only said that sex was "good," as He had said of all His previous creations, He now said it was "very good." When God created sex, He said to Himself that He had created something very beautiful, very holy, truly worthy of Himself. He created it for a special purpose, a relationship called marriage which He blessed then as He does now. And sex, like anything else, is fulfilling only when one follows the manufacturer's directions. Sexual love is a symbol. It is a sign and seal of total commitment, of the total giving of one's self to the person loved, total sharing of all that we have and are, total faithfulness and total unity. Sex is not just a physical act. It is a physical expression, but a physical expression of something that is deeply spiritual. It is an act that expresses the total giving of one's self to the one loved for all eternity. It is to love the other with all of one's mind, heart, soul and strength. It is, in fact, the most beautiful icon on earth of God's love for us. It is an all consuming love of agape, filia and eros. If the physical act of love does not express this total giving of one's self to the one loved, then it is a lie. It is the prostitution of something that is sacred. No relationship is ever "meaningful" if it does not express this kind of permanent commitment and love. This is why promiscuity breeds the death of love and can deprive sex of meaning in one's marriage. A love that is moved and guided by the love of God ought to be - and is - the most fulfilling and meaningful love in the world. Sex can never be what it was created to be without God. Never as fulfilling. Never as meaningful. Never as joyful. Never as satisfying. That is why marriage is a sacrament given by God to enhance and make possible in God a true and lasting love that will be a symbol of total giving and a true icon on earth of God's love for us. We need to reclaim the word "sex" for God by giving it it's proper definition. It needs to be cleansed and given back to the Creator. It is His word, a sacred word, for a holy love and a sacred relationship: marriage. This is God's t***h about sex which the world has polluted and t***sformed into a sewer word and you all know what that word is. Old fashioned thinking? No! Old fashioned T***h!