{"id":3560,"date":"2019-08-07T17:03:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T22:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2019-08-07T17:03:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T22:03:39","slug":"pornography-and-the-conservative-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/pornography-and-the-conservative-christian","title":{"rendered":"Pornography and the Conservative Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Paul Edwards Program | August 7, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pornography.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RNS: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2019\/08\/06\/conservative-christians-have-a-porn-problem-studies-show\/\">Conservative Christians have a porn problem, studies show, but not the one you think<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>GOSPEL COALITION: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/reviews\/addicted-lust\/\"><strong>When We Coddle Porn<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li>CT: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2019\/june\/addicted-lust-samuel-perry-regnerus-pornography.html\">Waging a Smarter War on Porn<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li>THE NEW YORKER: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/q-and-a\/a-sociologist-of-religion-on-protestants-porn-and-the-purity-industrial-complex\"><strong>A Sociologist of Religion on Protestants, Porn, and the \u201cPurity Industrial Complex\u201d<\/strong><\/a><ul><li><em>&#8220;[Pornography] seems to be uniquely harmful to conservative Protestants\u2019 mental health, their sense of self, their own identities\u2014certainly their intimate relationships\u2014in ways that don\u2019t tend to be as harmful for people who don\u2019t have that kind of moral problem with it.&#8221;<\/em><\/li><li><em>&#8220;&#8230;it\u2019s not necessarily that porn makes you depressed. It\u2019s watching porn when you\u2019ve already said that that\u2019s an immoral thing and you don\u2019t want to do it. That can lead to guilt and shame that makes you feel crappy about yourself, that you are immoral, that you\u2019re violating something that\u2019s deeply held and sacred.&#8221;<\/em><\/li><li><em>&#8220;&#8230;if we find ourselves engaging in behavior that we believe violates our values, we can do one of two things: we can stop the behavior or change our values. And oftentimes, when conservative Christians keep on struggling with this temptation in their lives,&nbsp;it\u2019s just easier for them to say, \u201cYou know what? Maybe I don\u2019t believe this so much. Maybe I could just keep doing this and not think the religious part of it is so important.\u201d <\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paul Edwards Program | August 7, 2019 RNS: Conservative Christians have a porn problem, studies show, but not the one you think GOSPEL COALITION: When We Coddle Porn CT: Waging a Smarter War on Porn THE NEW YORKER: A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/pornography-and-the-conservative-christian\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3564,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions\/3564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}