Re: How to reclaim your virginity - if you're a "Christian"

Some really good points.  

It's an indication about how the fundamentalists of all religions control their members, through guilt and fear.  No love there at all.

If they believe what they themselves teach, then Jesus has forgiven them of all their "sins" and it doesn't make any difference whether they are virginal or not before marriage.  Yet as you point out - who the hell cares and look at what us guys can get away with.

What I see in them re-virginalizing themselves is that they are refusing to take responsibility for their own actions.  Their own individual choices.  It's part of the religionists game of blaming everything on someone else or the non-existent Satan.  As long as they can give all their "sins" to Jesus and never take responsibility for their own creations, the won't learn much about life in this reality.

Where it does get tough is for those who have been raped, but that too requires taking responsibility for the resulting feelings and dealing with them however one wishes to do that - counseling, whatever.  I know it's tough because I was raped as a child in a strict "sex doesn't exist and if it does it's all evil" environment.  It's difficult to work through but once you have you are able to assist others and to also validate your own inner strengths.

I think that it's fun to watch fundamentalists in all religions, just to see it evolve.  Fundamentalist Islam is no different than fundamentalist Christianity, they both rant at each other and they are just alike.  They are really poking fun at themselves.  

Fundamentalist Christianity is evolving.  It didn't exist 200 years ago, and they don't even believe what they did 50 years ago.  The rest of the world is rapidly changing and they keep resisting and making up new stories to try and keep up with the changes on the planet.  Now, after centuries of denying that dinosaurers ever existed, they make up the tall tale that Noah had them on the Ark.  He took them on board, so the story goes, as baby dinos.  Amazing that none of them survived after the flood.  It's all spelled out that way in the Creationist Museum and in home schooling.  They still haven't resolved the Neanderthals and all the archeological evidence of their widespread existence and belief in an afterlife.  I wonder why Noah didn't take a couple of those onto the Ark?  I also wonder if they are going to see any Neanderthals in their heaven.  Fun stuff.