Our modern society is perfectly comfortable hearing another wedding lecture on the value of love. A conservative audience will be comfortable, indeed self-congratulating, sitting under yet another sermon on the submission of the wife. But they will be shocked and offended, one and all, to have the Biblical texts about the proper importance of sex in marriage. To hear the young man speak of his new wife as ‘his better half’ and ‘part of his spiritual journey’ will be received with beatific smiles; to have him speak of her breasts as two young fawns will get him kicked out of the church!
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Gnostic and Insipid: Podcast Version