Newsflash: Lukewarm Christians Like to Hit It, Film at 11

Slate isn’t yet on my block list, which is why I was able to come across yet another one of their lame articles, this one espousing on the issue of sex and religion in the lives of American teenagers.

The central emphasis of the article of course was on the usual liberal notion of how promoting abstinence encourages even more booty calls. But then I found this particular gem:

What really matters is not which religion teenagers identify with but how strongly they identify. After controlling for all factors (family satisfaction, popularity, income), religion matters much less than religiosity. Among the mass of typically promiscuous teenagers in the book, one group stands out: the 16 percent of American teens who describe religion as “extremely important” in their lives. When these guys pledge, they mean it.

So let me see if I have this right: those who actually take their religion seriously are far less likely to be plowing the field. And this is newsworthy… why again?

If anything, it only reinforces the rather obvious point that a large number (if not the vast majority) of young people claiming to be Christians today are pretty much full of it. They may pay lip service to God, attend church regularly, and speak the language of “Evangelese,” but they are about as much Christian as this bottle of Pepsi I’m drinking here. Look, you guys want to roll around in the hay, or get hammered at college frat parties and wake up in strange places the next day, or flash truckers driving the opposite way, or unabashedly drop f-bombs because it makes you feel like a Soprano, then go right ahead. Just don’t call yourself a Christian. It really frosts my cookies when you do.

I think part of the reason why I get all bent out of shape over this is because it doesn’t exactly make my search for THE ONE any easier. I want to meet a nice CHRISTIAN girl, but now that even bra burning, baby killing streetwalkers are touting themselves as children of the kingdom, this sort of makes my efforts to find a virtuous snuggly pie a little daunting, to say the least. Honestly, if the profiles from dating sites like Match.com were to be believed, then just about 99 percent of the women on there are Christians. But if I’m to be the 31st guy in the supermarket express line that is the sex life of many of these “Christian” Match girls, then I think they might want to do a little more soul searching to discover just what exactly their true religion really is.

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13 Responses to “Newsflash: Lukewarm Christians Like to Hit It, Film at 11”

jjjen wrote a comment on June 3, 2007 @ 01:34:am
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It’s like somebody needs a new name. My sister was talking to this young girl who likes to “hit it” no conviction, no remorse. She called herself a “moderate” Christian. What does that mean?…average? luke-warm?

Somehow it’s the opposite of “legalistic” :eyeroll:

Lincoln Adams wrote a comment on June 3, 2007 @ 01:41:am
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It’s either one extreme or the other. Christians are either so legalistic that open toed shoes will put you in danger of hell fire, or so spaced out they think we should be reliving the 1960s again. :wall:

jjjen wrote a comment on June 3, 2007 @ 02:44:am
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….ahh, but tell a girl to keep her knees together before marriage, and suddenly you are in the “no open toed shoes” catagory of Christianity. What ever happened to good old common sense? :think:

Lincoln Adams wrote a comment on June 3, 2007 @ 03:23:am
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I think common sense went out of style along with Crystal Pepsi and disco. :eyeroll:

jjjen wrote a comment on June 3, 2007 @ 06:14:pm
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My 22 year old nephew’s wedding reception music was 99% disco. And the teens were totally into it. :afro: Maybe there’s hope for common sense yet! :pray:

Lincoln Adams wrote a comment on June 3, 2007 @ 09:56:pm
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I have to confess, I listen to ABBA on occasion myself. :banana: :spinna:

:grin:

Jesus Geek wrote a comment on June 4, 2007 @ 08:24:am
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So when is the last time you looked at a woman with lust in your heart? According to Jesus that makes you an adulterer. Thought about killing your boss lately? That makes you a murderer. Finger-pointing doesn’t help anyone, especially the person doing the pointing.

Love ya, Linc.

Lincoln Adams wrote a comment on June 4, 2007 @ 12:41:pm
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@JG: My beef isn’t with Christians who do those things, it’s with those who see NOTHING WRONG with doing those things.

Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig difference if you ask me. :tongue:

Jesus Geek wrote a comment on June 4, 2007 @ 01:12:pm
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Blah, blah, blah. Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

Lincoln Adams wrote a comment on June 4, 2007 @ 02:43:pm
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It’s kiss this GUY. :afro:

gabrielle wrote a comment on October 2, 2008 @ 09:57:am
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the Christians that get to me are the ones who do like you said, and give all appearances in church, and perhaps around their church peers, but then go off and continue living a life of sin and degradation with no remorse. I am a Christian, born and raised Free Will Baptist. I have changed a lot over the years, but the people in my church know it. I do curse, though not much at all by any means, and the people know it, but out of respect, I don’t do it in front of them. I do drink, but only ever in moderation, mostly social, and I do not hide it. the hypocrisy is what gets me. all these ‘Christians” out there pushing the good boy/girl image to the important people, then going and getting hammered and drugged up and having copious amounts of promiscuous sex. It ruins the name and image of actual devout Christians. I don’t have sex, I don’t do drugs, I respect my parents, I don’t lie to my church family, I don’t pretend to be something Im not, and that right there is where most ‘Christian’ teens and young people fall short. Pretending to be something they aren’t. and not only that, the people who don’t see anything wrong with whats going on. people have strayed so far from the Bible and what it says. If you are a Christian, that’s what you are, you cant be two things at once. its really hard to be a female Christian these days. Im Bible belt, but even at church, most guys only want one thing, and when they see they aren’t getting it, they lose interest. Then you lose confidence in yourself because they have no interest in who you really are. Only what you have to offer.

Lincoln Adams wrote a comment on October 2, 2008 @ 10:21:am
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Thanks for commenting Gabrielle. I’m disgusted that even in church the only guys you find have no desire to do the right thing and treat women as something other than sex objects. You definitely have my support and appreciation for shunning such dweeby losers. :ggrin: