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November 6th, 2012

If you are dressing your children in #50ShadesofGrey clothing, you are moron

I kid you not. See the product line here.

via “50 Shades Of Grey” Products For Kids.

Tags: 50 shades of grey
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August 6th, 2012

I hear this sermon series will be a new book from @Energion

We love our Pastor of Parish Life. Shauna – if you ever get to meet her – is a wonderful person. And I’m not just saying this because she knows karate and could kill me with her thumb.

Tags: 50 shades of grey, Shauna Marie Hyde
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July 24th, 2012

Hotel replaces Bibles with ’50 Shades of Grey’? Song of Solomon would have been hawter

The Damson Dene Hotel, which touts itself as the perfect destination for a “peaceful break away from it all” in England’s picturesque Lake District, is making quite a noise for replacing the Bible with “Fifty Shades of Grey” in its 40 guest rooms.

The steamy novel — part of a trilogy by author E.L. James — has become a worldwide blockbuster thanks in large part to the graphic sex scenes that have its main characters engaging in bondage, sadomasochism and other exploits.

via Hotel replaces Bibles with ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ – Overhead Bin.

really? Why? The bible is a lot steamier – Ruth, Esther, Song of Songs – than any poorly written novel.

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July 18th, 2012

Let’s just call it what it is – rape

Rape, for the most part, is defined as the forced act of sex. There is also the idea of consent and proper consent. So, no date rapes or drunken orgies.

The Gospel Coalition is promoting Doug Wilson’s take on take,

When we quarrel with the way the world is, we find that the world has ways of getting back at us. In other words, however we try, the sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party. A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.This is of course offensive to all egalitarians, and so our culture has rebelled against the concept of authority and submission in marriage. This means that we have sought to suppress the concepts of authority and submission as they relate to the marriage bed….True authority and true submission are therefore an erotic necessity…

I wrote this post quickly last night… Rachel Held Evans has responded to them as well. Scot McKnight has responded and so has Rodney. J.K. Gayle as responded as well.

How is that different than 50 Shades of Grey? Wilson, and the Gospel Coalition, is advocating that for a man to enjoy sex, he must be forcefully conquering the woman. For a woman to enjoy sex, she must be dominated. This is nothing more than a nice and clean version of rape. I do not mean to say that this is the violent rape or equal to it, but it is a psychological rape that forces the woman to have sex against her will. If rape is defined at the basic level as sex against one’s will, then what Wilson, the Gospel Coalition and others are supporting is flat out rape.

Read Rachel’s post.

Tags: 50 shades of grey, doug wilson, Gospel Coalition, Rachel Held Evans, rape
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July 17th, 2012

Oh? I couldn’t tell the different between the GC and 50 Shades

When we quarrel with the way the world is, we find that the world has ways of getting back at us. In other words, however we try, the sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party. A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts. This is of course offensive to all egalitarians, and so our culture has rebelled against the concept of authority and submission in marriage. This means that we have sought to suppress the concepts of authority and submission as they relate to the marriage bed.

via The Polluted Waters of 50 Shades of Grey, Etc. – Gospel Driven Church.

Honestly… and they call that a good book? Sounds like 50 Shades, but only with theology…

I don’t like 50 Shades of Grey. I think that it dehumanizes the woman, and thus the man, but it is more than just sex.

Sex is not just about the physical act – which is is being described here, it seems. I would know. But, what derails the physical act is the psychological phenomena – the reality of the act. For instance, eating. One could, say, eat an apple. That is fine. One could eat an apple that is poisonous due to disobedience. The act itself is not evil but the experience of the moment it. That is what 50 shades of grey does… it makes the act of sex and the experience of sex into exactly what the Gospel Coalition sees sex as – the conquering of a woman – the use of a woman by a man not in equality, but in domination. The GC is more like 50 Shades than they realize…