Middle Class Christian Economics Applied To Middle Class Sexual Morality

Jesus said some pretty hard things about sexual ethics (If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. Matt 5:29) and some pretty hard things about money (go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor. Mark 10:21)

When it comes to putting these into practice Xns, particularly those of us in the evangelical west, are often hard on the sexual ethics but pretty lax or money.

I was just wondering what if we applied some of the attitudes we have about money to sex?

Scenario 1.

Version 1.

Your husband goes to the shop and purchases some choclate, you usually buy fair trade, but this time regular choclate is half price so he buys that instead. You think it'd be nice if he'd bought fair trade but the budget is tight and you can't afford to not save money where ever you can. You eat the choclate together.

Version 2

Your husband goes to the DVD store to hire a movie, you ussually hire a nice hollywood movie, but this time all of the movies in the pornographic section are half price so he hires one of them instead. So, will you be thinking "it'd be nice if he'd hired a hollywood blockbuster but the budget is tight and we can't afford to not save money where ever you can"?

Scenario 2

Version 1.

Your wife admits to some friends that she has a good income and talks about giving money to people in need but just ends up spending it all on shoes, clothes, and eating out. Her friends console her, assure her that she needs to look after her needs and what is really important is her attitude to money not so much what she actually does with it.

Version 2.

Your wife admits to some friends that she has a good husband and talks about being faithful but constantly ends up cheating on him with other people. Her friends consol her assure her that she needs to look after her needs (these other men are obviously giving her something her husand can't) and what is really important is her attitude to marriage not so much how she lives it out.

"Yer but it's different"... Yes and no. The main difference is we can see how the sexual ethics can hurt someone but the money stuff is not so clear. Right now there are more slaves around the world than ever before. A couple of hundered years ago we might have had slaves making our dinner and washing our clothes now they live in another country picking our coffee, coco and making our clothes and gadgets. Responding to this is hard but surely no harder than to give up slaves when no one else around you does.