Brethren, I greet you all in our Lord Jesus Christ.
The CNN Belief blog published today a good and balanced post, titled, Can the Christian crusade against pornography bear fruit? which you all ought to read.
The blogger focuses on the reaction from Protestant Evangelical circles toward the filth that surrounds and its grave effects upon individual, families, and society in general. The article is critical of those who recurr to "prayer-only" therapy to deal with the effects of sexual sin, and quotes the leading Protestant authority on this matter against the practice
As a Catholic - let us not forget that a Catholic invented
A sin of excess, of intemperance - may indeed start an addiction. Through prayer and the Sacrament of Reconciliation the root sin is removed. Prayer, group support, and standard counseling therapy should be used to deal with the personal, familial, and social consequences of the sin. These consequences are very destructive.
Unbelievers don't understand this and seek to do away with any sense of guilt attached to our misuse of sexual power. For Catholics, and for more Christians, sex is holy, sacred, and should be treated as such. For the unbelievers, particularly those trapped in objective sexual sin, any call to return to the right use of sex is risible. That's due to another consequence of grave sin: it makes the sinner stupid and convinced of his or her own righteousness despite their impurity. You can read their stupefied ramblings on the comment stream
But that's another subject. May the love of God, the grace of our Lord Jesus, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
- Purchase Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction
by Mark Laaser, at Amazon.