Posted by BY J E SOLOMON
I couldn’t believe it when Sam told me that his wife Gloria is against having sex on Sundays because it’s unchristian. According to Sam, Gloria views sex on Sundays by Christians as sinful in the eyes of God. The couple has been married for over 20 years. The Sunday sex taboo started nearly six years ago.
Perhaps you may wonder if the Holy Bible forbids Christians to have sex on sacred days. Thank God, there’s no such thing in the Holy Scriptures.
I enquired from colleagues and friends of other religious faiths if it was sinful for couples to make love on days set aside for worship of the Supreme Being. The answer was a definite no.
Thirty-five years ago, I heard about an Anglican priest who admonished the congregation during a Sunday mass service to make sure they were always clean before they entered the church. He reportedly chastised unmarried women and men who would sleep over with their fiancées on Saturday and then go to Sunday mass service and have Holy Communion. Mass services started at 6:00 a.m.
The priest was said to have stressed that all unmarried women and men who intended to have Holy Communion should make sure they cleaned themselves up before appearing on the altar. The feeling then among members of the church was that some gossip mongers might have whispered stories to the priest.
Whatever prompted the priest to say the things he said didn’t matter. The important thing was the message; the altar had to be treated with reverence.
But for anyone to suggest that married Christians should abstain from sex on Sundays because it’s the Christian day of worship is, to say the least, quite absurd. I find Gloria’s sex restriction rather unchristian.
What’s strange about it all is that Gloria’s Sunday actually starts from Saturday night. Her reason, according to Sam, is that she doesn’t want to enter into Sunday (starting 12:01 a.m.) with an “unclean” body. The two of them no longer share their marital bed on Saturday nights. Prevention is the key, she would tell Sam.
A friend couldn’t help asking, “What about the Seventh Day Adventist Church which recognizes Saturday as the sacred day for worship? If they have to go by Gloria’s idealism, it would have to be Saturdays; and it would likely start from Friday night. Isn’t it funny?”
Gloria and all who think like her are missing the whole thing about sex and godliness. In any case, of what value is a clean body to a Christian if the head that sits on the body is filled with misguided concepts; strange beliefs that do not promote peace and healthy relationship?