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the Church is inimical to Life.” The great majority of men and 
women do not now believe in “Christian morality”; do not 
believe in the flagrant absurdity that the impulse by which alone 
life is continued on our planet is sinful, and that its sinfulness can 
be expunged only if it is directed by a husband towards his wife 
and by a wife towards her husband. The creation of this artificial 
“sin of sex,” the attachment of a sense of guilt to a basic natural 
function, has brought about a disastrous perversion of sane moral 
feeling. It has destroyed or numbed our awareness of what is the 
only real sin, of what alone should cause a sense of guilt in us; 
that is, obstruction or denial of our true will, or of the true will of 
another. The acceptance of, or the deference to these malignant 
sex-tabus, has done incalculable harm and is still doing it. A sane, 
a natural and creative view of sex is of the first importance; for a 
destructive and distorted view, a Christian view, generates an evil 
pus which overflows upon the whole field of human thought and 
human activity, infecting with one malady after another. Sex­
repression, sex-frustration, as Freud has truly told us, breed war­
makers and war. They and their cousins german, malevolent inter­
ference with individual freedom of thought and man’s natural 
right to all the pleasures of life, breed also social discontents and 
social ills. In the strictest sense, such persecuting manias are anti­
social. The true will of humanity is against them and against their 
offspring. That will is not for wars, it is not for the “moral” filth 
of sexual frustration or for the frustration of anything that is 
needed for the creative fulfilment of individual life.
Until the old twilight tabus have been killed, there is no certain 
hope for the future. The Book of the Law deals them and their 
issue a mortal blow. It sets in their place a gospel which, it is true, 
makes high demands, but which is valid for the achievement of 
the heart’s desire; for the satisfaction of our dolorous and aching 
needs; for the building of a true and enduring City of God.
Louis Umfraville Wilkinson 
London, 1946 E.v.