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loco said:man reading this makes me so stinkin glad I am married and have done it up right. before marriage was a virgin and so was my wife. niether of us were with someone else ever and plan on keeping it that way. Just the way God had intended it for man to be since the beginning of time.
Loco, I actually think that's great. It's certainly an ideal way of life for those with such faith and principles, and has some benefit for anyone. I kind of think that would have been a cool way for things to turn out. Hell, size wouldn't be such a sexual issue if a woman didn't have to measure a man up to all the others she had been with. Not that I want to put DLD out of business of anything. :D
As a former Christian, let me state my problem with the policy. Years ago, it was common for people to be married by the time they were 18 or so. Usually a person married someone he had known for most of his life. These days, so many people are living together before marriage because of an uncertainty around the trust issue. The days of marrying someone in the local community are gone. This is because the days of simply graduating high school, marrying your sweetheart, and working in the factory or farm your father and grandfather worked are gone.
I don't see an alternative. You might convince people to hold-off from having sex until they're 18 or 20, but these days we have singles running around 25-30 and even older. The message is just not going to sell at that point. You'll not even find a doctor or psychologist that wouldn't even pretend that such a thing is healthy.
The way God intended it is completely incompatible with the modern way of life.