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ORIGINAL: littlewonder
Those who do so for religious reasons do it because they are getting closer to God, they are working towards bettering their spiritual health.

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ORIGINAL: GotSteel

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder
Those who do so for religious reasons do it because they are getting closer to God, they are working towards bettering their spiritual health.

This is exactly the sort of phrasing that makes me think of self harm. The whole notion that there's something wrong with them that needs cleansing. Especially when we're talking about that institution of shame guilt and sexual repression that is the Catholic Church.

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ORIGINAL: LadyPact

I am a person of faith who believe that Jesus Christ did live on earth. By definition, that makes Me a Christian. My involvement in BDSM doesn't change that. I'm probably in more hot water with God for being poly than I am for being a sadist. By the same token, since it's Him that gets to be the authority figure on that, I figure I'll deal with Him directly. Not other people who want to decide to do His job by sticking their nose where it doesn't belong.

Yep, I'm a female Dominant and I'm in charge of My poly household. What's in the Bible wouldn't have accepted that because women were still second class citizens by law. I'm going to be pretty shocked if God isn't more evolved than that, so I don't worry about it much. What else would you expect to be on the pages when it was transcribed by men of that time?

As for owning slaves, whippings, public displays, plural marriage, etc, etc....... Well, all of that is in those same pages. Kind of hard to deny that.