Solomon
Sez: Porn Is Meaningless
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Title:
Solomon Sez: Porn Is
Meaningless---------------------------------------
Date: 12/29/2000
Keyword:
"meaningless"
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strong in the face of sexual temptation.
Passage:
Ecclesiastes
5:10*
Whoever loves money never
has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never
satisfied with his income. This too is
meaningless.
Questions
1. Why is the love of
money ultimately a futile passion?
2. How is our love of
pornography like materialism?
Practical
help
If a wine company can take
liberties with Ecclesiastes — leaving out all of
the negative lyrics for the song "Turn Turn Turn"
— then I can, too. So remove the word "money" in
this verse and insert the word "pornography." I submit
that not much changes.
That's because hoarding money
and guzzling sex meet at the intersection of passion
and significance. Unfortunately, the writer of
Ecclesiastes acts like a big red light in the middle
of our superhighway. He asks us to do something
unusual: Take our eyes off of the road and focus on
the eternal.
Of course, we already know this.
As with money, porn is never enough. Opt out of the
system while you're still ahead. Diminishing returns
— in every sense of the phrase — are the
only alternative.
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