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Although loaded with the baby-boomers' baggage, we are finally moving on from the decadence of that generation unto a new hope and spiritual revival!
chastity is perfectly fine, if that is your choice, and i will respect that. however, you cannot force it on everyone. to me, having premarital sex it is not immoral, since although it has risks, informed people take risks all the time (is flying immoral because it has risks of harming you? what about driving? or playing sports?), and it can harm no one but those who choose to indulge in it.
Matthew 5:22
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Second, sticking the label "truth" to something gives it an air of gravitas (darn...there's that Latin) but no substance whatsoever. Chastity might be a virtue, but it is not truth, and it is not justice. Truth and justice are virtues like chastity might be, so you are committing a categorical error.
Truth is an objective declaration of the way things are. Chastity is no such declaration. As such, I reject your point of view in this case.
Fidelity and moderation are virtues as well. They function perfectly well for most of us in our day to day lives.
And I warn you, I can just keep right on fornicating until you shut up.
Chastity's great if you want it, fornicating's great if you want it. Everyone should understand what they're getting themselves into, but not everyone will. The best thing you can do is educate and give people a fully-informed choice.
I have never seen someone so worried about what some dumb kids are doing, to the extent that was described...wow, future workings of a peter pan author right up there.
Last year, Mark Regnerus, a sociologist at the University of Texas at Austin, published a startling book called ⠜Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers,⠝ and he is working on a follow-up that includes a section titled ⠜Red Sex, Blue Sex.⠝ His findings are drawn from a national survey that Regnerus and his colleagues conducted of some thirty-four hundred thirteen-to-seventeen-year-olds, and from a comprehensive government study of adolescent health known as Add Health. Regnerus argues that religion is a good indicator of attitudes toward sex, but a poor one of sexual behavior, and that this gap is especially wide among teen-agers who identify themselves as evangelical. The vast majority of white evangelical adolescents⠔seventy-four per cent⠔say that they believe in abstaining from sex before marriage. (Only half of mainline Protestants, and a quarter of Jews, say that they believe in abstinence.) Moreover, among the major religious groups, evangelical virgins are the least likely to anticipate that sex will be pleasurable, and the most likely to believe that having sex will cause their partners to lose respect for them. (Jews most often cite pleasure as a reason to have sex, and say that an unplanned pregnancy would be an embarrassment.) But, according to Add Health data, evangelical teen-agers are more sexually active than Mormons, mainline Protestants, and Jews. On average, white evangelical Protestants make their ⠜sexual début⠝⠔to use the festive term of social-science researchers⠔shortly after turning sixteen. Among major religious groups, only black Protestants begin having sex earlier.
Another key difference in behavior, Regnerus reports, is that evangelical Protestant teen-agers are significantly less likely than other groups to use contraception. This could be because evangelicals are also among the most likely to believe that using contraception will send the message that they are looking for sex. It could also be because many evangelicals are steeped in the abstinence movementâ ™s warnings that condoms wonâ ™t actually protect them from pregnancy or venereal disease. More provocatively, Regnerus found that only half of sexually active teen-agers who say that they seek guidance from God or the Scriptures when making a tough decision report using contraception every time. By contrast, sixty-nine per cent of sexually active youth who say that they most often follow the counsel of a parent or another trusted adult consistently use protection.
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