Sex Before Marriage and The Devil's Work

Sex Before Marriage. It's The Devil's Work!

A.D. 1202:

Europe is coming out of its darkness. The Middle Ages witnessed the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of The Church.

It was a disorganized, brutal period in history but The Church held up a shining light with its promises of a royal life after death. The Holy See, protected by its loyal soldiers and ideals, offered hope to the poor, lost and lonely. The Vatican became the authority of everything.

A.D. to NOW-ish:

History shows that thirty-nine Popes were married!

Oh? Nobody mentioned that, did they?

For over a millennia, Popes, Bishops, Cardinals, Priests and any clergy who had a desire to wed, could do so, no questions asked.

Sex was allowed too. Sex before marriage was fine.

Sex wasn't an unholy act. It was allowed on any day, on every day if that's what you liked. Sex was never an issue. That became a topic of debate much later - when it suited the Church to do so.

Control Sex, Control The Cash Flow

It suited the Church to establish and maintain a long-term Christian breeding programme. As long as it told Christians when and who they could have sex with, they knew the children they'd bear would become the Church's future financiers. It was the Church that made the sex rules, not God.

This explains why The Church doesn't believe in contraception or the gay issue. Both disempower The Church. It has no hold over its followers if it can't control their people. There are no financial futures in free and open sex.

There's only the threat of religious cross-contamination and the dissolution of the Church's ideals. It spoils the all-important breeding programme and their money in the bank.

For me, any group of men who claim to be celibate people are the last people who should be giving advice about sex. It's a crock of shit. Most of us know that much of the Clergy aren't celibate at all. They're out there getting their rocks off just like anyone else. Sometimes they get caught out when they do it and it's the children who suffer from that.

Frankly, I think the end is nigh for the Roman Catholic Church. It's an out-of-date and irrelevant institution. People are leaving in droves. Men aren't entering the Priesthood as they once were. 

If you feel the way I do about The Church, Christianity and Sex and Catholicism and Sex, read my novel SEETHINGS and find out what happens to a young couple dealing with the no sex before marriage rule and how it fails their future.

Take a look at its front cover. You'll notice a tiny cross on it. It's the smallest thing on its face, yet it controls the entire narrative.

I hope you enjoy the wild journey that follows!

-Michael Forman (Author: Neo-noirotica)