Glob-a-log

(From christiannymphos.org)

Sex sells. We know that. Hell, even the Church of England knows that:

Married people have more and better sex, according to a Church of England website designed to encourage couples to tie the knot. The site also quotes The Case for Marriage, by Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher, which says marriage “typically brings spectacular sexual rewards”.

It’s kind of funny though – and if you’re serious about religion, also more than a bit sad.

I mean, it’s one thing to use sex to sell soap, cars, jeans, reality TV shows and other mass consumption fodder but to sell the love of God through sex ads is more than a bit desperate. Actually, even to an agnost of long standing as I am, it sounds positively blasphemous – and it comes with more than a whiff of sulphur.

You can see some dubious focus group, hidden away in the attic of Canterbury cathedral. “How can we make the church relevant again?” one asks; “How do we sell the message?” Then, like Saul on the way to Damascus, they see the light. They start to dance and clap their hands and sing, “Let’s talk about sex!”

Of course, you can also, and even more easily, picture Jesus on that mountain, talking to Satan. Satan offers the Son of Man ultimate and sole power in the world. “Just do this one little thing for Me,” Satan proposes “And this world is Yours. Just kneel before Me, pay tribute to Me, and all of it is Yours.”

We know what Jesus did – and we also now know what the Church of England chose to do, even without this explicit guarantee of power. No, the C. of E. is quite happy to sell its soul to the force that drives Endemol Productions, just for a whiff of ‘relevance.’

Sad.

Mind you, it wouldn’t surprise me if the ultimate October surprise in the American presidential election would be a leaked sex tape of Palin and McCain. ‘Cause the Republican Party is now becoming even more desperate to prove (or at least sell) its relevance than the C. of E. – and even less principled.

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