Umm....

Wow!

So, its been a really long time since I've blogged but I guess I have too much on my mind tonight to think about and I thought that maybe if I wrote it down I would be able to sleep some.

I think I can explain better what I believe writing it down, because I've never been much of a debater or quick thinker on the spot. Someone today asked me why I didnt like watching movies with strip clubs or naked women in them. I wanted to explain why, but I never did a good job of it. So here we go:

First, God says not to. Jesus said, "Whoever lusts after a woman has already committed adultry in his heart." I'm definitely a guy and if something like that pops onto the screen, I'm definitely going to be lusting. If God exists, then it makes sense that he knows what's best. If he says not to even lust, I'm not going to. I believe that he exists and that he's... well... God.

Second, and more of why I think God says these things, is because it completely degrades girls. In any guy's mind, in that situation, a girl is no more than a body. If I watched that, it would be only out of my own selfishness; I wouldnt care about who the girl was, how her life was, how she was feeling. It would be all about me and completely selfish. Yeah- its only a movie, why not watch. I dont want to watch because I dont want to be like so many of the guys in society that treat girls that way, just for what they can get out of them. I dont want to think that way- and the movies are an easy way to start.

Third, it makes sex so cheap. There's something deeply intimate and spiritual about it that it kinda makes me angry when people constantly joke about it and talk about it and its in movies and tv shows as some kind of whatever, all the time, nonchalant thing. Instead its something life changing, that connnects you with another person like nothing else on earth can. To throw in the Bible it makes two people become "one flesh." So, all the dirty jokes and women in movies etc., I kind of relate to something like Sept 11. Its just something that shouldnt be made cheap in that way- and I feel the same about sex.

And give guys a chance. There's always going to be things you like about them and hate about them. Haha- Bible says that too. But there's one that's good enough to make your life better than you can imagine right now.