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Aleister Crowley: "The sexual act is a sacrament of Will. To profane it is the great offence. All true expression of it is lawful; all suppression or distortion is contrary to the Law of Liberty. To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd." --Commentary, AL I:41
Lisa Walling: ...was just talking about this very thing, yesterday. I think I called it blasphemous, along with horrible, unnatural, and absurd.
My response:
I've seen this happen in my own family who are Jehovah's Witnesses. I can't think of any Christian sect that is more repressive of this sacred and natural human instinct. I've struggled with the burden they imposed on me for 10 years, I've seen their cycle of sexual repression from the inside. I broke free by sheer force of Will and by the love of real friends. I can now look back and see the damage that it causes in countless lives, including my family.
The children grow up repressed, and inevitably go to the other extreme, getting pregnant, or impregnating someone at 16. It blows my mind how no one ever looks around and evaluates this endless repressive cycle, they simply bury their heads in the BS they're fed, and choose to blame the world for their parenting failure.
Last year I got the news that my 7 year-old sister was molested by someone in the cult, someone who only 5 years before I would've called a friend. I kept my outrage in check. I carefully evaluated the situation as a phenomenon in the universe, like any Thelemite should - cause and effect. This individual had been repressed for years as well, and while he might have been shady from the start, I believe that puritanical indoctrination made him worse. It also kept his association limited to their insular congregation and all the children in it.
I love my little sister and me looking at the bigger picture sounds cold, but I have nothing but hatred for Christian morals. And my anger is made worse by being shunned by my family, unable to do anything for them at the moment. They fear my “demonic” faith, but create their own cesspool of demons.
I wasn't going to get personal, but this subject really gets me going. Thank you for putting up with my rant. 93 93/93
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