*With God besides him, taking all his focus, why should he need another?*

It's exactly that kind of thinking Yuyutzu, which is part of the
problem. Somehow you seem to be in complete denial of the human
endocrine system. Nearly all males, religious or not, have regular
erections. To just wish them away in the name of god, is hardly
realistic

Well if he were real and walked amongst us today, he probably take out that dreaded whip and use it to whip all those boy buggering, girl child raping defilers, out of his fathers house; and indeed, all those who have so mutilated his original evocation and teachings, as to somehow justify, protecting patent perpetually recidivist criminals!
He would roar, where is it written, that I demanded of any of my followers, to be celibate, which may in part, be responsible for ultimate deviant of psychotic behaviour?
He would demand, in terms entirely unmistakable, that all the criminals sheltering in his father's house, be immediately defrocked and handed over, to the appropriate authorities; bellowing, render unto Caesar, that which is is Caesar's!
And or, inasmuch as you do to the least amongst you, do also to me, or, suffer little children to come unto me, for my personal protection!
A responsibility, which I hand on to all those who purport to speak and act, in my name!
Rhrosty.

Dear Yabby,

Having an erection is no excuse from turning one's attention away from God. It is natural for the human mind to stray after one's endoctrines, but then once we notice it we bring our attention back on God, that is if our faith is steady - if it isn't, then we are in a spiritual crisis.

Dear Banjo,

Isn't tearing up the body, or parts thereof, away from the soul, equivalent to tearing up the soul from the body?

I tend to agree that the brain, or parts thereof, is the organ which is most likely to do us in. We may be more knowledgeable today about physiology than in Jesus' times, but the underlying principle remains the same.

Mind you, indications are that in most cases the so-called "sexual abuse" has nothing to do with sex but rather with control and power.

Dear Candide and David G.,

There are two possible reasons for your disregard of clergy's suffering: either you don't recognize the extent of their suffering; or you don't genuinely care for suffering in general, but are instead motivated by politically-correct ideology. I would like to believe it's the first case.

Physical and emotional pain last one lifetime at the most. Spiritual pain can endure much longer, relative to which the flames of hell are but a breeze.

If we got rid of religion, David, then both molesters and the children they molest would be gone, since they would have no remaining reason to come to live on earth in the first place - a perfect example of throwing the baby with the bath-water. Practice of religion is not always conscious, but we are all somewhere on the path to God whether we recognize and acknowledge it or not.

*Having an erection is no excuse from turning one's attention away from God.*

Hehe Yuyutsu, you would have to be female to provide such an answer.
They don't suffer from the regular testosterone flows. If perchance
you are male, do you think of god whilst you masturbate away that
erection?

Jesus is a myth, there is not a skerrick of evidence any such person ever existed.

Why do so many people wonder what this mythical creature would do?

"...but we are all somewhere on the path to God whether we recognize and acknowledge it or not." So said yuyutsu!

Please be advised that my path to God has a sign on it which, in large letters, says: DEAD END.

The path I am on says: THE WAY TO TRUTH AWAITS THE THINKER.

Cheers.