Coffee isn't helping. I'll just wait for a reply, if you need further clarification. I read your reply again. I do agree that religion is a means by which to control people, and most specifically sexuality. I am a feminist art historian by a lot of training. I do understand this. I wrote a thesis on it. But there is another part of religion, for the most part lost in religion, that is spirituality. I've still not defined it well, but my mind just isn't working well in the logical defense mode this morning. Actually, I do find it fascinating that from a spiritual point of view, Christianity is all about the divine energy of sprititual creation(sex?)--immaculate conception--and Christ used that energy of creation to feed masses and heal the sick. But I'm getting away from my scholarly understanding too much. I may be terribly wrong. Not all religion is adverse to sex. Don't forget Tantric sex, which from my small understanding of it is using sex to bring in spiritual engery again. It's a meditation from my limited understanding of it. But again, I may be writing from ignorance. I do understand, and agree with your point of view, that there's a great danger in introducing limiting religious beliefs into psychotherapy. That is, afterall, the thrust of our social and cultural climate at this time. I do hold out hope for broader views and growth.
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