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hmm.. it's like being brought up christian and never questioning it because no one has ever challenged you to discourse. you don't know why you believe pornography is a sin. you've just been told all your life that it is. this is your basic world view on things.. it's not necessarily "truth" for good reasons. i agree it's good to think about *why* you believe things, and start freeing yourself in the process.
during the age of reason, it was considered heresy that galileo claimed the earth revolved around the sun, and that we were not at the center of the universe. this was a huge shift in cultural world views at the time. similarly, claiming the earth is round also challenged cultural truths but without these discoveries and *discourse* we wouldn't be where we are today. truth isn't always right.
viewing pornography as sinful is a christian world view, also with the belief in hell. for someone who isn't christian and therefore doesn't believe in hell, would he/she go there simply for viewing porn? truth is only relative to the observer.
personally, i do not believe in sin but i do believe in sex as a spiritual act. therefore, viewing porn would be of no consequence to me, but i choose not to for spiritual reasons.
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