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Old Jun 18, 2008 , 05:08 PM   # 7 (permalink)
Default Re: Why Marriages Don’t Work – The Change Factor



Originally Posted by Olamide View Post
d. Religion: This is the most divisive factor in every marriage, most especially, if both husband and wife does not share the same religious convictions. Women tend to be more religious than their husbands and as followers of all sorts of doctorines. Once the wife start attending churches where the Pastor preach in a way that makes having regular sex look like a spiritual problem, it is always the beginning of the end. Terms like 'dog spirit', 'mammy water', 'Ogbanje' ' sex taking away your glory' are used by stupid Pastors and their wives in order to enslave their congregation. the wife start denying her husband what is rightly his and the end result is that the man start keeping girlfriends and Sugar-mummies.
@Omololu/Olamide,

2 examples of highly relevant and balanced pieces. Extremely well written. One might say '2 for the price of one'. I'm forwarding this page to some of my friends and cousins for their benefit.

That said, I must say that any Pastor who teaches what Olamide posted above in the 21st Century cannot be too familiar with his Bible. Any reading of Songs of Solomon will show that religion and sex are not mutually exclusive. The Bible only limits it to marriage. Heb 13:4:

"4 Marriage is to be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery." TEV

Paul even commanded married couples not to deny each other's sexual rights except for short periods by mutual consent. God made man's sexuality; their sexual drive and desires.

What Christians (and most other morally sensitive religions) frown upon is indiscriminate sexuality. Within the bounds of marriage, a couple have full freedom to explore and experiment (empirically) their sexuality to its 'limits'.

However, in this 21st Century this should be done with proper safeguards as there're usually no more farms to send 'procreative battalions'. The financial and emotive cost of child raising today means 'oga must go softly softly wid madam o

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