Why Modern Christianity NEEDS You to Be Ashamed of Sex (It's Not What You Think)

Описание: Why is modern Christianity so obsessed with controlling sex? It's not in the Bible the way most people think — and that gap tells us something important.

In this video I trace how Christianity went from a messianic movement with relatively little interest in sexuality to a religion that built entire institutions around sexual shame. I look at Paul's actual argument in 1 Corinthians (it's about group cohesion, not personal purity), how Stoic ethics and Platonic body-soul dualism reshaped early Christian thought, Augustine's invention of original sin in the 5th century, and Foucault's argument that the 17th century didn't repress sex — it created a discourse that made sex into a site of control.

The argument: sexuality became Christianity's "perfect sin" because it's universal, biologically driven, cyclical, and can never be permanently resolved. That makes it uniquely useful for a religion built around ongoing cycles of sin, shame, forgiveness, and redemption.



Related Works
Elaine Pagels, Adam, Eve and the Serpent (1988)
Foucault, History of Sexuality - https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/englis...


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0:00 - Introduction: Sex as Christianity's perfect sin
1:00 - Paul and the early church: what was sex actually about?
6:59 - Stoicism, Platonism, and the body-soul split
11:00 - Augustine and the invention of original sin
13:22 - Foucault and the 17th century discourse on sex

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