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Old 04-23-2006, 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by kerry edwards
Given the fact that Colorado is a battleground in the marriage wars, I've been thinking and reading about marriage and sex a lot recently. It has occurred to me that in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, God does a lot of things that humans do. God creates, loves, thinks, knows,eats, breathes, sees, hears, is angry, jealous, benevolent, longsuffering, just, etc. But one thing God does not do is sex. Can anyone think of any exception to this? I suppose one could argue that God had a son and this seems to imply a sexual relationship between God and a woman, but the emergence of the idea of the virgin birth could be explained as a direct attempt to avoid this implication.

What are the cultural implications of an asexual God? Would we be better off with a sexual God? Why invent an asexual God to begin with?
Oh boy...religion and sex, in one thread.

Even if the Christian God is asexual, he obviously did not mean for his creation to be asexual. Let's face it, sex feels good. If sex was meant for procreation only (as some have suggested), and not for recreation, then it wouldn't be so much fun.

There is even evidence that suggests that some of the "higher" order animals, such as dolphins, may also enjoy recreational sex.

So, if God is indeed asexual, he is missing out on some of the best features of his own creation.
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