Sex is like religion not only because it is objectively holy in itself but also because it gives us subjectively a foretaste of heaven, of the self-forgetting, self-transcending, self-giving that is what our deepest hearts are designed for, long for and will not be satisfied until they have, because we are made in God's own image and this self-giving constitutes the inner life of the Trinity.
Peter Kreeft just compared s-e-x to religion! In How to Win the Culture War, he takes sex and parallels it to religion. Outrageous! Audacious! But, the question is, is it true?
Sex is (and all I am about to write is purely theoretical, not experimental - yet) certainly a beautiful thing. It is a transcendental thing. It is the epitome of sublime ecstasy. It is a moment of joy. Just as David being in love with God wanted to spend every day in the courts of the Lord, so a lover will want to spend every night in the bed of the beloved.
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