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Marriage: How the Churches Corrupt

Bob Sharpe on sex, contraception and loving relationships.

A century or more ago, people began to reject Christian metaphysics. Dissenting voices like that of Nietzsche apart, however, they continued to accept Christian morality as offering a noble aspiration for mankind. Thus the view that it is better to suffer evil than to do it, is quite widely regarded as one of the great contributions of Christianity to moral thought. I shall not dissent as far as that idea is concerned. But I do want to question the general assumption that Christian teaching, whatever its oddities, is never actually evil.

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