About These Christians.

So finally something about these Christians and their attitude to sex. Certain things they all have in common: others they do not share They all believe that Christ demands certain standards of behaviour from his followers, and furthermore that if these people are really determined to follow Him. He will enable them to do so. I count myself lucky to be one of them, and yet not for a moment can I deny that religion must take its share of the blame for the trouble society is in. Christianity, interpreted as it has been by fallible and sinful human beings, has often in fact, been misinterpreted. The suppressive imposition by Christians of puritanical standards on all alike, whether their faith called them to accept these standards or not has understandably made many enemies of religion which to them has come to mean not the freely accepted faith which it must be but a moral straight-jacket. Those of us who are Christians have no right to demand our standards from others. We can merely demonstrate their rightness by our own conduct and by reasoned arguments in their defence. God's laws are never in conflict with human common sense, with the rightful demands of society or with the physical and psychological laws governing our bodies and minds. If we fellow God we are also acting as reasonable creatures, even though sometimes we must follow when we have not yet understood the reasonableness of Gods demands in such cases particularly, it is preposterous to expect others to follow our standard because our God demands It of us. We must all carefully examine our own standards to discover whether they really do correspond to Christ's will for us as individuals and as a group. Those of us belonging to the Roman Catholic Church will be able to accept the precepts that the Church teaches us for we believe that the Church expresses the true will of God. Those of us not within the Roman Communion are thrown much more upon ourselves. Through prayer, Scripture and the opinions of our Christian cum we must determine what is God's will for us Some of us still clinging to a narrow Victorian conception of ethics, to the extent that we even disapprove of will have to think again in terms of Christ's demands on us to-day as useful members of modern society. Others among us will have to realise that our freedom has been abused and that Christ demands self-discipline which we have failed hitherto to exercise. This discipline does not consist of suppression but of joyful obedience to His standards. Even the best of Christians are well aware of their inadequate conduct but once their standard is determined they can hold firmly to their convictons which are more binding than the conclusions of human reason stone and which provide an absolute standard.

Both Christians and non-Christians should realise that Christanity does not conflict with modern science and psychology and that property understood. Its teaching has much to say on the subject of sex that is both wise and enlightened Sex for from being tabu to Christians is for at least should be held by them to be one of God's finest gifts neither to be hidden under a bushel nor to be vulgarly abused.