Can Religion and BDSM interests co-exist?

[Thorne]

If you wish to interpret the bible literally, then we are all made by God in His image. If God made us sexual beings it must be because he WANTED us to be sexual beings. Therefore, anything you do of a sexual nature, provided it's with the consent of all parties concerned, is OK with God. It's the preachers, priests, imams, rabbis and various other holier-than-thou's who would condemn you for it. God won't. He told me so.

Have I ever lied to you?

[TomOfSweden]

If you wish to interpret the bible literally, then we are all made by God in His image. If God made us sexual beings it must be because he WANTED us to be sexual beings. Therefore, anything you do of a sexual nature, provided it's with the consent of all parties concerned, is OK with God. It's the preachers, priests, imams, rabbis and various other holier-than-thou's who would condemn you for it. God won't. He told me so.

Have I ever lied to you?

An important philosophical feature of Christianity is that we have free will. So this actually works for Christianity. It just doesn't work in combination with modern science, because according to science, our sexual urges are very much outside the scope of our free will. This is a very deep and unsolvable dilemma for Christianity. A common solution is to take the middle ground and compromise, but then we both have free will and don't. Which is logically false. But anyhoo...