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Entry: Hitchens Unhinged Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/hitchens_unhinged_part_i#6851 Post contents: John Ball, I really hope you don't see this as a cop out, but I don't think I can take anymore typing for at least a week, so I can't muster the energy to tackle all of your eloquent points. The only one thing I do have the energy for is this: 'Because God is, well, a very Sexy being, and He doesn’t like any of his Gifts to be wasted or under-appreciated. On this blog I’ve often admitted that I don’t believe in or practice 100 percent of Catholic doctrine or morals - but ya gotta admit, that the more sex is tossed around without any acknowledgement of its sanctity, the less pleasurable - and less Human - it becomes.' I agree utterly with the assertion that debasing sex ruins it. Treated like that it eventually becomes joyless and meaningless. But sex as a gift? I wouldn't call it a gift. It often easily creates insecurity, paranoia, humilation, doubt and a sense of failure, even, or especially, in people who are sexually 'well-behaved'. If I could remove the desire for sex, that makes me sometimes do ludicrous and irksome things in pursuit of it, I sometimes think I would. I don't see it as a 'gift' at all. It's more a hindrance. A very pleasant one may be, but mostly more hastle than it's worth. You don't practice a 100% of Catholic doctrines? Well, in all seriousness, why practice any % if you pick out the bits that don't suit you? Furthermore, why Catholicism over, say, Islam? Oh and by the way, it's 'Mr' not 'Ms': 'Maud' is unisex. Regards Maud Sent at: 2008 05 16