Love Is A Theological Virtue That Enables Us To Develop Caring Relationships Wit

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Love is a theological virtue that enables us to develop caring relationships with God and others. With love comes sexuality, which is the condition of having a gender and relating to others as a result of that gender. Love and sexuality often go hand and hand but when people deal with these factors there are guidelines so that people do not abuse two wonderful gifts that God has given us.
To live a chaste life is not always simple and easy. There are cultural challenges that affect us and make it difficult for us to make the right decisions. These challenges test us and can make us stronger people. First, sexual intercourse, which is the most intimate act between a man and a woman in marriage, is sometimes used as a way to obtain money and power. At times people's lives become like soap operas because of their greed and the low regard they have for nurturing love. Also, sex is often the hook or gimmick for an advertisement. It sells perfume, furniture, cars, gum, clothes, food, and anything else imaginable. It becomes the reason to see a movie or comedian. Second, in our culture love is used to describe a feeling for many things. This makes it hard for a person to be sure that they really love a person, or that the other person truly loves them. And finally, in our culture growing up as a kid the Catholic religion, the labels of sex being dirty or sinful often paint the wrong picture of a perfectly normal; intimate act that God Himself created. Then, a person sees the virtue of chastity as just another rule to brake. Another rebellious act has no meaning based on the first impression they were given about sex.
Society is another obstacle to overcome when a person is trying to live a chaste life. First, for people of all ages peer pressure is a force to reckon with. The pressure on each of us to conform to the standards of others can be great. The point of peer pressure is to make a person feel that they are not accepted unless they do what others are doing. When it comes to having, sex encouragement and pushing from outsiders make things harder. Second, society gives us a blanket to shield ourselves with, which sounds good but is really a lie. It is the lie of individuality. The person ...

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