MAD's Obiwan: A Recovering "Pornoholic"?

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Re: MAD's Obiwan: A Recovering "Pornoholic"?

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I'm glad to see that you're willing to admit that there "may very well be a psychological relationship" between Church teachings and pornography addiction. Well done, Loran.


You're pure poison my friend, pure poison. I wonder, why do I even bother?

Of course, "religious teaching" is, in fact, "something within one's environment."


Yes, and one could become addicted to religion, or a specific kind of religious experience just as some in AA can transfer their addiction from alcohol or drugs to the group. One can be addicted to a relationship. What does not seem likely is that a religion that tells you not to do something (smoke, drink, use drugs, view pornography, walk around with your shoes untied etc.) can somehow influence an addiction to the very things proscribed. Addiction can have nothing to do with Church teachings as it is precisely Church teachings that ask us to avoid things that can be - addictive.

Addiction is a pathological relationship with an experience, and its difficult to see how it could be the case that a church that teaches that pornography should be forgone because, amongst other reasons, it can be addictive, can generate addiction to pornography. In other words, indulgence in pornography generates an addictive syndrome, not Church principles relative to it.

I know this argument well. Its a ancient, well worn liberal argument that asserts that religious teachings regarding morality and values where restrictions and limitations on personal desires are a part of those teachings, create a reaction such that one flees into the arms of the things proscribed.

This does, or course happen, but not to psychologically emotionally, and spiritually mature individuals. A certain kind of mentality is susceptible to that kind of response, and indeed, may be a mentality more prone to addictive relationships than other kinds of psychologies.
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