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This week the boys talk about what is — ironically — the least pure gospel in modern Christianity. That’s right folks, we take dead aim at the Purity Movement. If you’re not familiar, It’s all a part of the purity movement, which was, according to the book Sexual Ethics: An Evangelical Perspective, the evangelical response to the sexual revolution and the AIDs epidemic. The Southern Baptist Convention, in 1992, even went so far as to create “True Love Waits,” which was an abstinence program that basically told kids to keep it in their pants until marriage. That’s right. If you ever suffered through “abstinence-only education,” then you can likely thank the Purity Movement. But “purity” doesn’t sound that bad, right? So where did the movement go wrong? The church did not equip parents to talk to about sex. It was inherently sexist. Life, ah, finds a way. It basically left young Christians with no knowledge about sex or their bodies. In other words, the movement filled teenagers with shame towards sex. Which is dangerous for many reasons, mostly that it creates an environment where failure is the only option. But even more than that, it instilled in teenagers an idea of masculinity that is just simply antiquated and super lame. It’s super DUPER gross. We take a break (thank GOD) to play a dumb game from Kevin. After that, we look at the Bible. Here’s what we read: Corinthians 7:2 Acts 15:20 Ephesians 5: 3 Hebrews 13: 4 Questions? Comments? If you have questions about anything we talked about in today’s episode, or if you’d like to comment on anything we said, or if you have suggestions for future episodes, then please connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, or both! twitter.com/WhiteJesusPod facebook.com/SaveMeWhiteJesus Thanks to John Cotton For the use of our theme song "Close" off a forthcoming EP. You can find and buy John's music here: https://nothankyoujohn.bandcamp.com/