{"id":3760,"date":"2006-04-19T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2006-04-19T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T10:29:00","slug":"does-jesus-love-porn-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3760","title":{"rendered":"Does Jesus love porn stars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekklesia.co.uk\/content\/news_syndication\/article_06045pornstars.shtml\">this<\/a> (HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2006\/04\/bits-and-bobs.html\">my favourite genius<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>So far as I&#8217;m aware, Jesus didn&#8217;t discuss pornography(1), but he does tell us that prostitutes will get to heaven before the religious leadership (Mt 21.31b). I&#8217;ve always liked the CS Lewis line from The Four Loves: &#8220;I believe that the most lawless and inordinate loves are less contrary to God&#8217;s will than a self-invited and self-protective lovelessness&#8221;. I think our spiritual path is precisely the right ordering of our loves (our desires) &#8211; the seven deadly sins are categorised, I believe, according to being an excess or a deficiency of love in certain areas, which makes lust the &#8220;least worst&#8221;. Something for the Anglican church to ponder, I think, when we get so worked up about the right ordering of sexual desires and neglect the much weightier matters of justice and pride.<\/p>\n<p>(1) The NT discusses &#8216;the lust of the eyes&#8217; of course &#8211; see 1 John 2.16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See this (HT: my favourite genius). So far as I&#8217;m aware, Jesus didn&#8217;t discuss pornography(1), but he does tell us that prostitutes will get to heaven before the religious leadership (Mt 21.31b). I&#8217;ve always liked the CS Lewis line from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3760\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-YE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}