[Redbook4:260][19871225:0004c]{Guilt-feelings
[continued]}[25th
December 1987]
19871225.0004
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Patricia
Highsmith, writing in the T[imes] L[iterary] S[upplement] this week
on Jack the Ripper, suggests that 'the Christian Churches in the main
seem terrified of sex, and perhaps for good reason: sex is more
powerful than anything the church has to offer, except of course to a
few rare ascetic types'.* Sloppy language and sloppy thinking: hunger
and thirst are as powerful as sex, but the Church seems not nearly so
concerned about their proper management and about the avoidance of
gluttony. I think the concern of the Church with sex is due not
to its simple power as a rival to the Church (as Highsmith implies)
but to its destructive capacity if uncontrolled.
*(sic)
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