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On December 30, 2012, Russell Moore tweeted,
The Bible Belt: When the strip club you pass on the highway has “Happy Birthday Jesus” on the neon sign outside.
This
begs the question concerning whether or not a strip club can celebrate
the birth of Christ while communicating that a woman’s value is solely
dependent upon her sexual availability. You see this lie perpetuated in
how women are portrayed on Television, in movies, books, music, etc. and
even in how women portray themselves. Of course, this devaluing of
humanity is not reserved for women only. Men too are often reduced to
sexual objects in our culture and society (Consider the young man who
cannot keep his shirt on in the Twilight movie series). What
Christians must understand is that how we view other humans and how we
want other humans to view us reveals what we believe about the value of
humanity. Both Porn and God make arguments about the value of
humanity. Porn communicates that the value of men and women is bound up
supremely in their sexual availability. God, on the other hand, argues
that man is valuable because he or she is created in His image (Gen.
1:26-27). Who will we believe? Continue at SBCVoices
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