Wednesday, February 18, 2009

lust for men, pride for women

i just read a short article in which the catholic church did a survey to find out which sin is confessed more by men vs. women. essentially it says that men sin more in the lust arena and women sin more in the pride arena. now, i'm not disagreeing with the results of this study. in fact, with the majority of men and women i'm around, i agree with these results. HOWEVER. it's these kinds of studies that perpetuate the idea that women aren't lustful. and that's where i get stuck. are we not lustful OR do we just not talk about it? i would argue the latter. and why do we not talk about it? because it's taboo. [i'm specifically referencing the Church here]

the best line of the article is when pope benedict says, "we are losing the notion of sin, if people do not confess regularly, they risk slowing their spiritual rhythm."

well isn't that the truth.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

AMEN TO THAT. glad you blogged on this :)

Lisa said...

i like that quote a lot