From Mark Judge at The Washington Examiner:
ShareIn his 2005 encyclical God is Love, Pope Benedict defended the Christian view of sexual love. Despite those who claimed that Christians were killjoys when it comes to sex, Benedict offered a correction. Christianity “in no way rejected eros as such; rather, it declared war on a warped and destructive form of it, because this counterfeit divinization of eros actually strips it of its dignity and dehumanizes it.”
As Benedict explained, “The prostitutes in the [Greek] temple, who had to bestow this divine intoxication, were not treated as human beings and persons, but simply used as a means of arousing ‘divine madness’: far from being goddesses, they were human persons being exploited.”
Reclaiming genuine eros is at the heart of a brilliant new book, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert. Gilbert is not a religious scholar but a liberal journalist. Even so, it is a profound work, beautifully written and deeply researched. (Read more.)
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