More sex talk (that's gotta be good right?)
I'm just adding this in order to include a quote that I had meant to add to the last post, but forgot about because I'm an airhead and very busy (and this also gives me a chance to change that terrible background music).
The quote is from CS Lewis, one of my favorite authors and theologians (not that I don't disagree with him sometimes, but he's still among my top 2 favorites). The quote comes from the Screwtape Letters, which is just fun reading, and is written from the point of view of a demon. The demon keeps referring to God as "The Enemy", which is hysterical. I keep the book in my bathroom, right next to my Dave Berry books :)
"Now comes the joke. The Enemy described a married couple as 'one flesh.' He did not say 'a happily married couple' or 'a couple who married because they were in love,' but you can make the humans ignore that. You can also make them forget that the man they call Paul did not confine it to married couples. Mere copulation, for him, makes 'one flesh.' You can thus get the humans to accept as rhetorical eulogies of 'being in love' what were in fact plain descriptions of the real significance of sexual intercourse. The truth is that wherever a man lies with a woman, there, whether they like it or not, a transcendental relation is set up between them which must be eternally enjoyed or eternally endured."
That last line has always hit home with me. "Eternally enjoyed or eternally endured." I love that. It reminds me of some other choices in life that have similar consequences. How many choices in life have stakes that high? Let's not mess those up shall we? It is just not worth it!
The quote is from CS Lewis, one of my favorite authors and theologians (not that I don't disagree with him sometimes, but he's still among my top 2 favorites). The quote comes from the Screwtape Letters, which is just fun reading, and is written from the point of view of a demon. The demon keeps referring to God as "The Enemy", which is hysterical. I keep the book in my bathroom, right next to my Dave Berry books :)
"Now comes the joke. The Enemy described a married couple as 'one flesh.' He did not say 'a happily married couple' or 'a couple who married because they were in love,' but you can make the humans ignore that. You can also make them forget that the man they call Paul did not confine it to married couples. Mere copulation, for him, makes 'one flesh.' You can thus get the humans to accept as rhetorical eulogies of 'being in love' what were in fact plain descriptions of the real significance of sexual intercourse. The truth is that wherever a man lies with a woman, there, whether they like it or not, a transcendental relation is set up between them which must be eternally enjoyed or eternally endured."
That last line has always hit home with me. "Eternally enjoyed or eternally endured." I love that. It reminds me of some other choices in life that have similar consequences. How many choices in life have stakes that high? Let's not mess those up shall we? It is just not worth it!
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Lewis had a gifted way of putting things into perspective through narrative, and the Letters prove that. To that end, the eternal connection also implies that the connection never will truly fade away and influence and flavor life until you die. That's power stuff.