No, Christians and Churches Do Not Idolize Virginity or Sexual Purity or Modesty
When doing a search for the phrase “does Christianity idolize motherhood,” several post headings by more liberal Christians, or secular critics, or emergents, popped up with the heading, “Do Christians Idolize Virginity.”
I looked over several of these pages.
The consensus by most of these bloggers and other writers is that yes, Christianity idolizes virginity, especially for women.
No, no, I’m afraid Christian culture does not idolize virginity, not for males or females. Far from it.
Conservative Christians pay a lot of lip service to celibacy and sexual purity, but most, including famous preachers, don’t live it out (look how many get caught having affairs and so forth; (Link): (see examples, or see this link for further examples) and do nothing to assist or encourage any Christian virgin past the age of 30.
I made this post so that anyone doing a search for “Do Christians idolize virginity” would find this, so I can direct you to my previous post on this blog -please see the following post:
I’m a Christian virgin at age 40+ (I had hoped to be married by my mid 30s; staying single this long was not a choice) and Christian literature and many churches actually treats me, and those like me, as a freak, as a failure, and we older virgins don’t feel welcome in churches, because most of them worship marriage and family. Just visit my blog post linked above to read more.
The flip side of all this, is that some churches are paranoid about sexual sin and end up teaching younger -and even older- Christians to fear the opposite sex, to avoid any possibility of fornication, which means, Christians don’t date each other and eventually marry. I have written posts about that, too – see the categories off to the right of the blog page, “how Christians are keeping Christian singles single,” and “Christian teachings about dating.”
But, contrary to Rachel Held Evans, other emergents, liberals, and anyone antagonistic towards Christianity, there is really no idolization of sexual purity and virginity going on in Christian circles, not in most mainline, normal Christian denominations: the opposite is true; most preachers and denominations expect you will eventually fornicate, and they also preach an “easy forgivism” of sexual sin.
Remember, I said ‘normal’ and ‘mainline.’ I realize there are a few small, aberrant groups that claim Christianity who do go crazy with legalism over virginity and sexual purity. I’m not talking about those kook, hyper legalistic, fringe groups, but rather, the more common, run of the mill, conservative evangelical, Southern Baptist, and fundamentalist groups and churches.
See my previous post for more on this topic:
★ (Link): The Contemporary Church Undervalues Celibacy / Virginity
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Related posts, this blog:
(Link): Some Researchers Argue that Shame Should Be Used to Treat Sexual Compulsions
(Link): I Unfollowed Blogger Shelia Gregoire on Twitter Today – Re: Politics
(Link): Are Most Churches Too Judgemental About Sexual Sin? (of the hetero variety)
(Link): Pastor Quits Church To Become a Stripper and Now Sells X-Rated Pics and Videos Online
(Link): A Day In The Life Of An Abstinence Ed Teacher by S. Gomez
(Link): Gonorrhea Super Strain Becoming ‘Untreatable’ (in the UK; may ben heading to the USA) – 2015 story
(Link): CDC Report: Virgin Teens Much Healthier Than Their Sexually Active Peers (2016 Report)
(Link): Our Bodies Were Not Made for Sex by T. Swann
(Link): The Christian and Non Christian Phenomenon of Virgin Shaming and Celibate Shaming
(Link): Churches No Longer Teaching that Pre-Marital Sex is a Sin
(Link): An Example of Mocking Adult Virginity Via Twitter (Virginity Used As Insult)
(Emergents, Sexual Abuse Victims, some Feminists, and Liberals attacking sexual purity teachings and virgin until marriage teachings mentioned in the following post):
(Link): Emergent Christian Guy Says Christians Need to “Celebrate Pre Marital Sex” (Fornication)
(Link): Christian Response FAIL to Sexual Sin – Easy Forgivism
(Link): Douglas Wilson and Christian Response FAIL to Sexual Sin – No Body Can Resist Sex – supposedly – Re: Celibacy
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