yikes this can be a pretty explosive one! i once nearly caused a riot asking this lol.

its something ive never been able to get my head round,personally i dont see why you cant have both but i can see where you're coming from.
im not religious in the slightest and in fact im probably a little antagonistic against it so i wont pretend im knowledgeable about it.

people tend to forget that most laws originally came from the church (christian) and most bdsm activitys are illegal or at least in some parts of the world they are so not only are believers breaking the law albeit a ridiculous one they are going against their own bibles teachings when it comes to sexual issues and such.

often it appears to me that people tend to twist such things by taking what they want from their religion and discarding the rest and using the reasoning that god wishes them to be happy and there are no 'set' rules which in my humble opinion is just nothing more than convenient for them and it all seems kind of hypocritical to me.

but im hypocritical too because were i a believer im pretty sure i would say im going to be happy,enjoy the type of r/ship and sex that i enjoy and bollocks to the preachers and the bibles.