The Catholic Church asked the faithful to sexual morality. What is this? Sex and Christianity contradict each other for 2000 years – it did not hurt either. Just do not synthesis!

In Matthew it says, “Seek, and ye shall find: knock, and it shall be opened.” It does not say: ask, and ye shall receive their answer – but she will not like you. This experience makes just the Catholic Church that wanted to know of their faithful, what they think of the Church’s sexual morality. The result – nothing – is less surprising than the fact the survey itself, about the new  reported. What is this? Christianity is 2000 years since a sexfeindliche religion – has harmed not the West. Where would we be without our hypocrisy ?

All that the Pope always wanted to know about sex, he will now learn. The Catholic Church makes to the SPD and performs a membership survey by. In a unique survey, the faithful were called upon the world to comment on the moral precepts of their religion: the family picture to sexual morality. The results are collected and analyzed in Rome, in the autumn of Pope Francis wants to consult with his bishops at an Extraordinary Synod about it. Shock and Awe in the Curia?

“Hosanna Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.” This stands in Mark. But that is of course completely different meaning than the young people understand it in religious education today. Nowhere is the gap between church doctrine and real life is as deep as during sex: Whether it comes to prevention, to extra-marital sex or homosexuality – which is still considered the Catholic sexual morality, except in Iran and in the Bible Belt of the USA?

Roman Catholic Chruch:Berlusconi the Holy See

This is not a new development. Although Pope Gregory I already created a millennium ago in 1400 a strict criminal catalog for the sins against the flesh, and the men of the church also stayed strictly on compliance – but only in the other. The longest time since the Ascension held the Catholic clergy itself not by its rules. Pope Alexander VI. settled Roman prostitutes come to increase the religious ecstasy, to show them his St. Peter’s Basilica. This Berlusconi of the Holy See was just a particularly egregious variant of the usual religious bigotry publicly lashing out against sex, which one drives more or less secretly. Only towards the middle of the 19th Century, when the Church’s power waned, the gap between words and reality began to close – it is not completely closed, remember the abuse scandals.

Augustine himself had learned in his early years, the “thorns of lust” extensively. With bitter mockery he thinks in his “Confessions” back to it. Since remembers the old man, as he had asked as a young man the men in heaven. “Give me chastity and continence, but not immediately”

Augustine made ​​religion an instrument of management of their own sexual obsessions – and the Church and the West have so superbly decorated: impulse control as a condition of civilization, it worked pretty well. The Cistercian monks deliberately began nearly a thousand years ago in order to redirect the energy of Eros in the work. Do not renounced marriage and sex, to the delight of asceticism to give, but the love of God in the active power. The Jesuits perfected the principle later and the Protestant dominated capitalism only survived it at all. Sublimation means that in Freud.

But somehow cares not even the believers today. In view of the findings of the Bishop of Mainz Cardinal Karl Lehmann speaks in Der Spiegel from “an unhappy, fatal situation.” The modernization stands before the gates of Rome. Perhaps the Pope should remember the pastor’s son Gottfried Benn, and whose praise of the double life: “We all live something other than we are Who says synthesis is already broken..”

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