2005-05-12

What's wrong with dating?

Nothing, if you're not a 'Christian'. If you are, you're screwed. Proverbially, of course.

Some of the Problems with Dating...

  • Dating promotes lust and moderate sexual activity, opening the door for fornication.
  • Dating develops a self-centered, feeling-oriented concept of love.
  • Dating creates a permanent endorphin-bond between two people who will not spend their lives together.
  • Dating teaches people to break off difficult relationships, conditioning them more for divorce than marriage.
  • Dating develops an appetite for variety and change, creating dissatisfaction within marriage. Dating lacks the protections and guidance afforded by parental involvement of courtship.Dating doesn't prepare children to face "life's realities."
  • Dating devalues sex and marriage.
  • Dating leads to intimacy but not necessarily to commitment.
  • Dating tends to skip the "friendship" stage of a relationship.
  • Dating often mistakes a physical relationship for love.
  • Dating often isolates a couple from other vital relationships.
  • Dating, in many cases, distracts young adults from their primary responsibility of preparing for the future.
  • Dating can cause discontentment with God's gift of singleness.
  • Dating creates an artificial environment for evaluating another person's character.

4 comments:

JamesO said...

"Dating, in many cases, distracts young adults from their primary responsibility of preparing for the future."

Eh?

John Rickards said...

Damn that "feeling-oriented" love! Have they no shame?!

Anonymous said...

John R stole my comment. Damn him

Anonymous said...

How does God's gift of singleness go with be fruitful and multipy?