The Bible’s Lewd, Raunchy Lyrics

Why Sex Is Not A Sin

Here are a sampling of the lyrics of Despacito translated into English:

I want to breathe your neck slowly
Let me tell you things in your ears
So that you remember when you’re not with me
Slowly
I want to undress you with kisses slowly
Sign the walls of your labyrinth
And make your whole body a manuscript

Despacito in Spanish means “slowly”, so essentially the song is about a guy wanting to get together with a girl; and in a very steamy, sultry, poetic way, he laments via “purple prose” how he wants to enjoy sex with her, slowly.

The song is sung in Spanish so the majority of America and the English-speaking world didn’t really get full impact or “feel” of what could be described as the world’s most popular and steamy-sexy song to come along in this century.

But what about previous centuries? Are the lyrics of Despacito really anything new? Let’s go back a few centuries, actually a few millennia, to give us some perspective.

The Bible’s Lewd, Raunchy Lyrics

Buried deep within what Evangelicals consider to be the most “holy” tome ever written, we’ll find a book called “The Songs”, or more correctly titled the Song of Songs, also referred to as the Song(s) of Solomon.

The book is unlike any other found within the Jewish Bible, what Jews call the Tanakh, or what Christians refer to as the “Old Testament”.

The Songs are a lengthy musical poem lamenting a deeply sexual relationship between a couple. Here is a sampling of those lyrics from the ERV translation:

Cover me with kisses,
for your love is better than wine.
Your perfume smells wonderful,
but your name is sweeter than the best perfume.
That is why the young women love you.
Take me with you.
Let’s run away.
The king took me into his room.

Wake up, north wind.
Come, south wind.
Blow on my garden.
Spread its sweet smell.
Let my lover enter his garden
and eat its pleasant fruit.

Keep in mind here that these people are NOT married. They do get there in the song, but not until later; well after he’d “taken her to his room” and covered her with kisses and, well, entered [her] garden, so to speak.

Within the song she calls him her lover; he talks about her breasts; she goes on and on about how sexy he is, describing his arms, legs, and other body parts—parts that have most likely been translated out of the original Hebrew of the poem by prudish translators not wanting to allow the text to get too steamy.

There is a lot of so-called “purple prose” within the song, just like there is in Despacito. In case you don’t know, “purple prose” is a literary term used to describe intimate acts and aroused body parts without actually using their commonly known terms.

And this Biblical romance novel continues like this for 8 chapters!

The point here is, Despacito isn’t any more or any less lewd or “raunchy” than the Song of Songs.

But in the minds of your typical Evangelical Christian, somehow it’s okay for the Word of God to have a musical romance novel embedded within it, but it’s not okay for anyone else to write their own romance and put it to music.

Hypocritical much?!

“But Keith, we’re talking about the Word of God here!”

Damn right we are! Which brings me to the very next point …

Sex Is Not Dirty

Somewhere in the past 1,500 years, since the wayward leadership of Roman Catholic Church more or less took over all things Christian under the rule and power of Constantine, an interesting prudish culture has emerged from the Church that more or less made sex a sin.

You couldn’t have sex unless you were married. You couldn’t have certain kinds of sex. You couldn’t have sex with more than one person. You couldn’t marry more than one person. ALL of these things were somehow a “sin” according to the busy-bodies of the Church, despite the fact that many of our Biblical heroes were all doing them ostensibly with GOD’s blessing.

But sex being looked at as dirty wasn’t always this way.

Unfortunately, this has been the wayward culture all of us have ever known, since none of us were alive 15 or more centuries ago.

Not only did the Church make sex dirty, it also basically took over marriage and made it about God. The fact is, GOD never once commands anyone to get married. Ever.

“Not true, Keith, Jesus says, “What God has joined together let no one separate!”

I’m not going to argue the semantics here. Here’s the whole passage from Mark 10:

“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this. He answered, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”

The bottom line is, Jesus would NEVER have actually said such a thing. The reason for this is that people often get themselves into marriages that become a trap and a disaster. NO ONE, not even GOD, expects you to stay married to someone who is abusive, doesn’t love you, or you cannot stand to be with.

That is not who GOD is.

What Jesus is really attempting to address here is this: Women in Jesus’ day and well before it had no rights. It was a highly patriarchal society. So regarding divorce, what GOD did do within the Law was to make sure that a woman wasn’t left alone, with child, abandoned by her baby daddy with no means of support. So if you did the crime, so to speak, you then did the time and didn’t just cast the woman away; you were expected to support her and your eventual progeny.

This would be the point Jesus was making.

As far as the “adultery” excuse, the Church doesn’t really buy into these words either; not any more. NO ONE in the modern era actually believes Jesus said these words; actually believes that you “commit adultery” by getting a divorce. It’s pure nonsense.

The Church’s anonymous authors manufactured these idiotic words along with a lot of other things Jesus never ever said because that is what these anonymous writers (whomever these unknown authors were) believed.

Which brings us to a very interesting side note …

Jesus Never Said That …

Without getting too deep into the weeds here, suffice to say that the authors of the books we call the “Gospels” were not written by the actual Apostles whose names they bear. Matthew didn’t write the Gospel According to Matthew and the Apostle Mark didn’t write his gospel book either. Their authors are completely anonymous and unknown.

Note the above referenced book by renowned Bible scholar Dr. Bart Ehrman. Love him or hate him for revealing the truth about the Gospels, the bottom line again is that if you read Jesus saying something in the Gospels, you can bet some early Church adherent had their hand in editing the words of Jesus to suit their own opinion.

I also wrote an article on this very topic. You can view it by clicking the link below and learn why the Bible’s authors are a lie that the Church made up.

Biblical Marriage Is Not Biblical

Pulling things back onto point once again, the Church manufactured a man-made morality that GOD never ever said, essentially using its own assumed authority to put words into the mouth of GOD.

What the Church of today attempts to say is that marriage is an institution that God created. This is on it’s face a bald-faced lie.

GOD did not create marriage.

Even within the pages of Torah, the Law of God, not once does God ever say someone must marry; nor does God ever say one must be married before having sex, as the Church is so fond of hammering as one of the most egregious of sins!

A Law condemning sex before marriage is just not there! This is a manufactured law by the Church, a manufactured “sin”, if you will.

Pastors will quote everything from Torah to the book of Hebrews trying to manufacture a law that doesn’t exist, “Oh but it’s implied.”

Hogwash. It doesn’t exist because GOD never created nor had anything to do with the institution of marriage. Period.

If you would like to read more about this, feel free to look at the below article about why Biblical Marriage is not really Biblical.

Why It’s Not A Sin To Be Gay

The Church: A Group of Hypocrites

In closing, I’m simply going to point out that the self-righteous Church is little more than a group of hypocrites pretending to know what GOD says but never actually reading nor doing what GOD actually says.

Like the Pharisees Jesus chastised, the people and leadership of the Church have chosen to observe their own man-made traditions instead of abide the commandments of GOD.

Calling the words and feelings of Despacito anything other that what they are—an emotional heart-felt love song—is to invite criticism of their own hypocrisy for thinking the Song of Songs is somehow any different.

GOD invented sex. It’s is the Church who has turned what GOD created into something GOD never intended.

If the busybodies of Church want to ridicule Despacito as lewd and raunchy, then they need to rip the Song of Songs out of the Word of God.

Otherwise, it makes all of them look like hypocrites.