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Well I'm a woman with an embarrassingly pristine past. Long story but I was raised extreeeeeemely religiously and did not lose my virginity till age 32. I didn't participate in a religion for 20 years, then I went back to it (but a liberal denomination where greed and hate are equally as bad as indulgences of the flesh like, oh, gluttony and drunkenness.)
I have a question for these moral guys. If a woman with a past genuinely underwent a religious conversion and repented of her past and avowed to embark on a repentant path and demonstrated it over several years, would YOU forgive her past, trust her repentance and conversion, or is it really just the animal brain and the "damaged goods" thing?
At least in that strict religious sect, I knew guys who married girls with pasts, who (in that sect) were repentant and disavowed their past ways. I'd rather take my chances with that ultra-strict religious sect that believed in forgiveness than the "reptilian brains" that are operating according to the "damaged goods" principle--because I think that is really what's going on, not a "trust" thing.
