A Christian Talks About Nudity

Just Like Anybody Else

It’s so delightful to encounter honest Christians who believe that the body isn't beautiful.

“If God had meant for the body to be seen naked like that,” his uncle hollered at him, “he wouldn’t have made so many fat, ugly, knobby-kneed people!”

The older man snatched the magazine away from the boy and smacked him with it, then stormed out of the room.

“You demented old fuck, it wasn't God who made people ugly!” the boy muttered to himself. “You did!”

The teenage boy didn't consider that his uncle was only 35 and hardly qualified as old. It was incomprehensible, though, how he’d ended up with such fucked-up fuddy-duddy views. Was it merely an excess of Christianity? Or were Church of Christ doctrines particularly warping? The man might have his reasons, but he had no excuse for being such an asshole and airhead about mere pictures of naked women. The boy might have understood it better if he'd seen his uncle later that night in bed, reading the confiscated magazine with one hand, just like anybody else.

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