Zan on Religion
I don’t write about my thoughts and opinions on religion very often.
Mostly because I cannot stand stupid shit silly concepts like this:
Christian Side Hug
A mandate on how you hug because somehow your fully clothed and not-in-use genitalia is facing someone else’s and that somehow constitutes a lustful and sexual overtone? Really? Makes you reconsider that full frontal you give your parents.
Answer me this, how do you wrap your arm around someone with that awkward side hug? Do you, the hugger, drape your arm along the huggee’s shoulder, wherein your hand is dangerously close to someone’s chest area? Do you wrap it casually around someone else’s waist, denoting dominance over that person’s hip region?
Why allow physical contact at all? Even air kisses are wrought with sex. Even words can bring on lustful thoughts, so why allow speaking or hearing? Batting your eyelashes at someone can be construed as flirtatious and therefore sinful, so I suppose looking at someone is out too. I say that even thoughts should be carefully controlled, by not allowing someone to think at all, lest they lust where the thought police cannot reach. Don’t even get me started on smell and taste. You ever hear of food being orgasmically good?
Sorry, my snark is showing. I’m not one to criticize a religion, least of all the one I grew up in, but what is with this poo? Am I really to understand that all the times I hugged the elderly congregation during the “greeting” portion of the service throughout my childhood, I was really advertising unwittingly that what I was doing had anything to do with sex? Really?
It’s a frikkin’ hug. Even Jesus is said to have done it on occasion. Huh huh, done it…
