Pastors 'n' porno
2004-02-12 23:36:09.788105+01 by
Dan Lyke
6 comments
You've probably seen that a Dallas based group is buying anti-porn ads on billboards for Valentines Day. What struck me, though, is this paragraph:
Almost 18 percent of people who called themselves born-again Christians
admitted visiting Internet porn sites, according to a 2000 survey of
1,031 adults by the evangelical group Focus on the Family. In a 2002
Pastors.com survey, more than 50 percent of responding pastors reported
viewing pornography in the previous year.
Obviously it's not a scientific sample, but "50 percent of responding pastors"? Can we assume that they felt ashamed of doing so? If so, how healthy can a group of people who feel that much shame over something so close to their being be?
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#Comment Re: made: 2004-02-19 17:59:21.571885+01 by:
Dan Lyke
No polling feature yet... I've ignored it 'cause I'm not quite sure what such a poll would prove.
#Comment Re: made: 2004-02-13 12:39:54.182588+01 by:
meuon
I'm not sure if I should be upset becuase 50% did NOT visit (or admit to it), or because 50% did. And for the record, I do not intentionally go to porn sites..
Dan, does Flutterby have a polling feature?
#Comment Re: made: 2004-02-13 01:00:42.415581+01 by:
Dan Lyke
Whence my "if so".
#Comment Re: made: 2004-02-13 00:36:43.836393+01 by:
shmuel
If so, how healthy can a group of people who feel that much shame over something so close to their being be?
(emphasis added)
How much and how close? Seems to me that there are a couple of sweeping unfounded assumptions here...
#Comment Re: made: 2004-02-13 00:20:50.63527+01 by:
dws
The other 50 percent didn't watch the Super Bowl.
#Comment Re: made: 2004-02-12 23:53:36.723398+01 by:
ziffle
"50 percent of responding pastors"? -- uuuhh its just research for Sundays, don't you know.
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