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Originally Posted by Nathanaelle
I sit at a crazy lunch table. We talk about everything.
Somehow the discussion went to Catholic priests, and this Unitarian guy named John said that nowhere in the Bible does it condemn sex before marriage. I point out that adultery is a sin. He counters that adultery is sex outside of marriage. (BTW he rejected me from Homecoming because "If religion is the basis of our relationship than I end it now" Sheez! Religion is the base of my life! )
Sorry for the rant. Anyways, I think he is wrong because I have been to so many sites that condemn sex before marriage.
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Well there may be some confusion about the terms... adultery as I undertsand it is when a married person has illicit sexual relations outside marriage... Fornication would be sexual encounters between unmarried people.. Fornication would be considered a sin in most religious traditions whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim... wikipedia has a good overview of fornication at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fornication
In the Baha'i Faith sexual relations outside marriage are forbidden.
Today in many modern societies the standards of morality have deteriorated and there are few penalties for people who engage in sexual relations prior to or outside marriage it would seem...
However I would suggest that in the long term we live with ourselves...that is, in the long haul over life.. there will probably be those incidents in our earlier years that we are less proud of and would rather others did not know much about.... Also I think standards of morality are important as examples for young people and can build character.
- Art