Distinction Between Religion And Sexuality

As Christians, we believe that the God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are one in the same just with different dimensions. Mistakenly, other religions find it commonplace to try to separate the Holy Trinity. It is difficult for them to grasp that they have the same purpose and they are all God. A sad reality for the Black church and community is its dualistic views on religion, fullness of God, and our relationships with one another. God is a spiritual and sexual existence who created man in his own image; yet the Black church makes a strong distinction between spirituality and sexuality. They are interlaced dimension of our total being which symbolizes the fullness of God. As Douglas positions, spirituality is the connection that we have with God and sexuality is intimacy, affection, …show more content…
The Black church, as a whole has become consumed with the idea or repudiating sexuality as an evil sin that affects spirituality with God. Is it possible to experience the fullness of God while denouncing sexuality? I understand that the White culture’s exploitation and devaluing of Black sexuality, in particular, women is the causal nexus for the problems in the Black community. Why do Black churches insists on marginalizing any expression of sexuality?
Interestingly, the First National Black Religious Summit on Sexuality was at HBCU Howard University’s School of Divinity in 1997(Douglas p.141). It was organized to change the Black religious community’s stance on sexual issues; yet, almost twenty years later, Black churches continue to practice and preach heterosexism, homophobia and sexism. The double standard between how men and women should conduct themselves is unescapable in the Black church trickling through