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Originally Posted by SatansCandy
They better enjoy their millions. When death comes they will reap what they sowed.
“The harlot’s house is the way to hell. Descending to the chambers of death”
– Proverbs 7
"Fornicators will suffer the vengeance of eternal fire" – Jude 7
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Satan's Candy, you got a hot profile pic!
But your position is kinda lonely, even in the history of Christianity.
I'm with St. Thomas Aquinas - and the whole tradition of the Christian Church on this point. St. Thomas thought prostitution had to be tolerated for the good of society and protection of females from sexual predation.
http://www.illinoismedieval.org/ems/VOL13/13ch4.html Only in very recent times, like the past sixty years, has anyone in Christianity taken the idea of punishing prostitution as a crime very seriously in English-speaking countries.
It is to be noted that not a word in the Old Testament even suggests a negative thought about prostitution. Jewish scripture just accepts it as part of the normal order of things. I mean go to Genesis - a guy goes out for a walk, finds a hooker, and leaves her unpaid. Later in the story, she comes back into the picture as his daughter in law, and it's kinda hard to explain why he still owes her.
Jesus Christ sure was not very positive about fornicating, but guess what - he never once suggested that it should be any kind of a crime punished by law - and none of the authors of the New Testament even hinted at using government power to stop this kind of private moral decision. If they had, they would have been laughed from Asia Minor to Spain and the persecutions and martyrdoms would have been quite unnecessary.
Geez, look at the Catechism of the Council of Trent
http://www.cin.org/users/james/ebook...ent/tindex.htm and the more recent Catechism of the Catholic Church
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM. They sure don't like prostitution. But not a word about using government power to punish it and rub it out - They save that for pornography!!! It's not even a crime in Vatican City when some assistant to the throne pimps out seminary students.
http://content.usatoday.com/communit...1#.T6xnelKHBMJ
Nice profile picture or not, and even while I'll respect your sincerity, Backpage has a right to do what it does under the First Amendment - and the right to be free of people trying to impose their personal ideas of morality on everyone else.