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Originally Posted by ubertuber
Abaya - your last post changed my perspective on this thread. You're asking if Christians feel comfortable on TFP (as in if it is compatible with their faith), not if TFP welcomes Christians, right? That's pretty different, and I'd be interested in hearing how Christians reconcile the possible differences...
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Well, ubertuber, I guess you're right... I did threadjack my own thread.
Should I start a new one?
In the meantime, I see the two questions as being related. Yes, I started out by wondering if TFP welcomes Christians. But then as I kept reading, and noticed how many Christians (and what a diversity of them) responded, I wondered how and why so many people from a religion that espouses sexual purity (at least, from the mainstream that I was involved in... man, I was waitin' for marriage!) could come here, feel welcome, and engage with sexually explicit material. Thus I wondered if maybe, some of them do NOT engage with that material. Hence my question.
Now, I would say that this is a free forum, and people can come and go as they please... if one doesn't like the content, then they are free to leave or abstain from a forum. But there *are* evangelical Christians here, which means there is something about the content that they like. But if the sexual content goes against their values, then how do they deal with it?
As I said, in my former life I would have run from this place as if it were hell itself.
So it has me very curious to know how our more strict Christians deal with the "temptations" offered here.
I imagine some do not view it as a hindrance to their faith... but there is some kind of dissonance there that I don't understand, and would like to.
A last thought... I wonder if there is a niche here for evangelical Christians who, since much of their community frowns upon fornication and sodomy (to use their terms) and frank discussion of sex in general... come here because they are sincerely curious about how to enhance their own sex lives (within a marriage, I would imagine) and don't have anywhere else to go. If so, this would indicate a blatant gap in the provision of the church for the needs of its community... I certainly felt that gap, when I was involved.
Thoughts?