Comments on: Fishermen and Whores

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:08:58 +0000

This post speaks to my experience in so many ways. God bless you Steve!
Btw laughed out loud at the last line.
Also some of my most sincere prayers have involved quite a bit of colorful language. Not at Him, but just in the way of expressing myself, well, earnestly.
May you be immersed in the joy of the Spirit this day.

By: jason taylor

jason taylor — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:15:06 +0000

I do also remember my cat being like that at times. I never held it against her.

By: jason taylor

jason taylor — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:09:09 +0000

Well, Steve, I have often felt a grudge against God for celibacy myself. Not that I have SSA but that I am economically poor, and socially awkward and generally not in a position to think about girls(I can think of one or two I thought I was in love with but never had a chance to do anything about it). I also have to live in a world with way to much secondhand porn(I do wish they would at least put that stuff away somewhere where you have to actually want to find it).

Am I saying I am as bad off as you are because I have to be celibate too. Not really, no. I don’t know who is worse about what and I am not sure that matters. I am saying that in this particular area I know how it feels. Celibacy feels awful frankly, and if it is a gift, the upside to it is hard to find. Perhaps one upside is that I am capable of relating to females as friends in a way I might have felt awkward if I was in a relationship. Be that as it may you have my sympathy and my regards as a brother in Christ.

By: Steve Gershom

Steve Gershom — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:17:39 +0000

Ha, I like this analogy! And the cat does tend to skulk around and scowl at you afterwards, as if you’ve done something terrible and mean.

By: jason taylor

jason taylor — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:02:10 +0000

Steve, you do know how he puts up with it? If your cat got a splinter and you had to pull the splinter out would you break your cats neck for hissing and scratching while you do that? Of course not. The same love for your cat that makes you take out the splinter makes you refuse to be angry with the cat who cannot understand why you are doing that to him.

By: Mark from PA

Mark from PA — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:12:15 +0000

Steve, I think some in the Church believe that the feelings of love and commitment that gay people have for each other is sinful but some do not. Some in the Church have a strong dislike for gay people and this is troubling to me.

By: Mark from PA

Mark from PA — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:08:14 +0000

Steve, non-procreative sex covers a lot of territory. It is not only contraceptive sex but also sex during periods of infertility, sex between people who are not capable of procreating such as sex between older people, types of sexual activity that do not lead to pregnancy and so forth.

By: Steve Gershom

Steve Gershom — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 06:26:14 +0000

Are you referring to contraceptive sex or to sex that just doesn’t happen to result in pregnancy?

By: Steve Gershom

Steve Gershom — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 06:25:15 +0000

Are you saying that the church currently considers it sinful to love somebody of the same sex?

By: Mark from PA

Mark from PA — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:41:32 +0000

Steve, surely you know that most of the sex that straight people have is non-procreative.