Is it possible to be a Christian and be on Lush?

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Isn't it handy that my own pastor sorted this simply when I went to her for counsel on this exact topic a few years ago? For reference, I am United Methodist.

Anyway! My pastor pulled up the site, then read several of my pieces. Thought a bit, then said that since G-d had seen fit to bless me with a dirty mind, then I was only sharing His divine gifts by writing porn. For her, and according to the principles of the church, it was that simple.

You can be a good person and not be Christian. You can call yourself a Christian and not be a good person. And, per my my pastor, you can definitely be a a good person, a good Christian, and be on Lush.

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I agree with Simplicity. I am a Christian and active in my church. I would be devastated if any of my brothers or sisters in Christ found out that I write erotica here, and I have also periodically sworn off Lush as sinful. But I could never bring myself to delete my account and my stories - I love them so! - and I've always come back. I justify it by telling myself that it's just fantasy, that I'm not like the characters I write about in real life, that my stories help keep the passion in my marriage. But I always stumble over Purity. So I'm conflicted but here I am.

Of course! Your personal beliefs and the products you choose to use are different things. Lush offers a wide range of cruelty-free and ethical products consistent with many Christian values, such as compassion for animals and the environment. It's important to remember that Christianity is about love, acceptance, and personal beliefs, and your choice of skincare products or cosmetics does not define your faith. I sometimes use such products myself, but I also don't shy away from attending churches in portland https://firstchurchlove.com. Embrace what brings you joy and aligns with your values.

Ten hail Mary's while choking the chicken.

Who cares?

The fact that you ask the question means you probably already know the answer.

God created sex. What you do with that is your own business.

Some Christians are a lot more enlightened than others. One thing I like about this site is that it's free of the unenlightened ones. How many of the others there are I neither know nor care, I'm not concerned with their private relationships with their deity.

If the answer was no, it's not possible, I wonder which one you'd choose.

If it is, I imagine BDSM would be the category of choice, as the two moralities have much in common.

They are compatible as they both deal in fantasy.

Of course it is. I feel there is an implication in your question that being a Christian has to be approved by someone else. It only matters if you believe and have faith. It's not for anyone else to determine.

If you were a perfect Christian, I suspect you would not find anything of interest here. But there has only been one of those so far, and he was here long before Lush was available.

Perhaps you feel guilty about what brings you to Lush. If so, don't worry about it too much. Martin Luther King advised us to "sin boldly," and we don't have any chance of being without sin. For myself, I think Lush boosts my lustful thoughts, but I only use it when I'm already in the mood for it, so Lush isn't the cause. It's more of an outlet that allows me to control my desires.

Of course it is! I'm a Christian. It's constantly astonishing to me that so many people raised to think that Jesus was a prude. Personally, I was raised to believe Christianity is about loving your fellow man (and woman), compassion, love and forgiveness, and I believe the true reading of Scripture, particularly the Gospels that document Jesus' acts and words, justifies that position. He spent very little time condemning people for their sexual acts (and he famously hung out with hookers). The VERY consistent message is one of love about all else.

Many of the condemnations around sexual behavior were either in the Old Testament, which is a nice historical reference to the history of the Jewish people, but not full of commandments if they conflict with Christ's message. Speaking of commandments, there are TWO of them (both about love), not ten. Read Matthew 22 if you've been misled by those who would micromanage our lives via guilt. In the New Testament, some of his Apostles did condemn some dimensions of sexuality in the other books, but a careful reading shows that they were condemning specific unloving behavior, not the sexual acts in general.

Sex, in my view, is a gift from God, a pleasure that tells us he/she loves us. Yes, it can be very powerful and cause great harm, and like everything else in life must be done with great care for the people we are doing it with. But done out of genuine care, empathy and affection for each other (including caution about who else besides the sex partners might be hurt), I think Jesus is okay with our sexuality.

Premarital sex, fine, as long as you take precautions to avoid hurtful consequences. Sex with other partners besides your spouse can be fine if it doesn't hurt them (such as if you have an open marriage and a lot of honesty with careful ground rules). Threesomes and group sex, though highly potentially explosive, can even be okay if you follow similar precautions. Even BDSM (not that I'm into it) can be fine as long as you approach it out of love and to give mutual pleasure without hurting each other, including setting up some serious guardrails. Sex with other than the "opposite" sex is also okay: absolutely, and LGBTQ+ people are more deprived of love than almost anyone else. Are you loving your neighbor, and not hurting anyone? Go for it.

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Perhaps you feel guilty about what brings you to Lush. If so, don't worry about it too much. Martin Luther King advised us to "sin boldly,"

That was Martin Luther, but true. Luther even suggested that it can be okay for a woman to divorce a man if he failed to satisfy her in the bedroom. That was pretty mind-blowing in the sixteenth century, especially since Catholicism was seen as the only true form of Christianity, a dominance against which we Protestants rebelled rather emphatically.

There's literally a detailed passage in the bible of a woman masturbating while fantasizing about someone. The Song of Solomon is basically the bible's porn section.

I think Christians on Lush will be just fine.

I don't see why not. Christians write murder mysteries all the time, it doesn't make them murderers. Surely erotica is the same?

Absolutely, in my opinion.

I did have a man on a dating site direct me to Bible passages about immoral behavior when I told him I wrote erotica as a hobby. I told him to “fuck off” in my sweetest Christian voice. 😇

I was raised a Catholic, and I have a spiritual side to me. However, I love sex and sexuality, and Catholicism says these are sins. I do not agree, you can believe in God and be here for certain. What is the most important thing to me is the truth, be good, do good things, and not manipulate others. I live to the Ten Commandments which is what God asked for. The only time I felt such profound guilt was committing adultery in my marriage (he did it first - thinking as a child). This is what the Bible says (which I have read front to back), but I do not believe in religion. Fuck religion, like many faiths, mankind has corrupted it. Good comes from each of us, not organised religion, and that is what we are responsible for, nothing else.

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Absolutely, in my opinion.

I did have a man on a dating site direct me to Bible passages about immoral behavior when I told him I wrote erotica as a hobby. I told him to “fuck off” in my sweetest Christian voice. 😇

Amen, sister.

Religion and politics are the two worst things that humans have developed over the years.

At this point I'm just giving any potential God reasons to smite me.

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I was raised a Catholic, and I have a spiritual side to me. However, I love sex and sexuality, and Catholicism says these are sins. I do not agree, you can believe in God and be here for certain. What is the most important thing to me is the truth, be good, do good things, and not manipulate others. I live to the Ten Commandments which is what God asked for. The only time I felt such profound guilt was committing adultery in my marriage (he did it first - thinking as a child). This is what the Bible says (which I have read front to back), but I do not believe in religion. Fuck religion, like many faiths, mankind has corrupted it. Good comes from each of us, not organised religion, and that is what we are responsible for, nothing else.

Well put!