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Pornography
A naked heart, is a key to an intimate experience of Christianity. And pornography is one of the more profound threats to maintaining such a heart.
Pornography can be as addictive as any drug.
Pornography occludes the naked heart by desacralising the human body. Pornography occludes the naked heart by desacralising the human body. The person is dissociated from the body as an object, or worse, the person becomes object.
Then to the soldier Pudens he said, "Farewell, and be mindful of my faith; and let not these things disturb, but confirm you." And at the same time he asked for a little ring from his finger, and returned it to him bathed in his wound, leaving to him an inherited token and the memory of his blood. And then lifeless he is cast down with the rest, to be slaughtered in the usual place. And when the populace called for them into the midst, that as the sword penetrated into their body they might make their eyes partners in the murder, they rose up of their own accord, and transferred themselves whither the people wished; but they first kissed one another, that they might consummate their martyrdom with the kiss of peace. The rest indeed, immoveable and in silence, received the sword-thrust....
The above quote is an excerpt from an account of an early Christian Martyrdom in the context of a Roman Circus. Perhaps the Roman Circus was one of the most profound manifestations of the spirit of pornography. Those present as spectators were not physically participating but rather made their eyes 'partners in the murder'.
Pornography never satisfies, and always demands more.
Pornography and lust have traditionally been seen as threat to 'Christian morals', but this on one level misses the whole point. A close counterfeit is more a problem than a poor counterfeit. Pornography and lust counterfeit the central paradigm of Christianity:-the naked heart and the creative speaking and hearing dynamic.
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