[Leica] Sharing images with the LUG, is nudity wrong???

["BIRKEY, DUANE" <dbirkey@hcjb.org.ec>]

I would like to make it clear that I think it's a good idea to share 
images with the LUG and while I haven't gotten to look at everyone's site 
yet, I've found it very worthwhile to do so.   I think the LUG as a whole 
understands that we are all learning to be better photographers and most 
of us, at least, believe we have areas where we would like to improve or 
refine.

I think in Peter's case... he would have been better received and not 
publicly criticized had he not started out by insulting the LUG. 
In one sense I have nothing against tasteful artistic nudes,  (the sermon 
starts here.....)

But it can easily be a starting point that gets people into pornography 
and it often causes lustful feeling and desires that the Bible says are 
wrong.  I am against pornography because of what it does to mens' minds 
and the problems that often follow it with sexual child abuse, rape and 
the damage that it causes to the relationship between husband and wife.   
Virtually all sexual criminals have one thing in common, they were 
addicted to some form of pornography....

Shock nudity for lack of a better term... is appreciated and applauded in 
many art circles, but frankly I'm personally a bit offended by it.   I 
realize my views are not held by everyone on the list and so as always, 
we need to find some way to get along. 

(Disclaimer:  comments or disagreements would probably be better served 
off-line at this point)

There is room on the Lug for just about everyone (including Peter, if he 
wants to take part) and we all have something we can share and something 
we can learn.  

Duane Birkey

HCJB World Radio
Quito Ecuador