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Categories: GRAB BAGAre strip clubs and nightclubs sinful?Sincerely,
Party Animal
Dear Party Animal,
Absolutely, completely, totally, and reprehensibly sinful. The Bible soundly condemns fornication (1 Cor 6:18) and lusting after someone that you are not married to (Matt 5:28). One sign of a sinful life is to have “eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin” (2 Pet 2:14). Strip clubs are places of whoredom that teach people to lust after human flesh and forsake God’s commands. Those kind of institutions destroy lives and souls.
Most nightclubs are exactly the same. Nightclubs are places of drunken partying and inappropriate interactions between men and women. Furthermore, many nightclubs are specifically designed to cater to homosexuality – which is a sin (Rom 1:27, Jude 1:7). Drunkenness is wrong (Eph 5:18), and the Bible clearly condemns ‘reveling’ and ‘carousing’ (1 Pet 4:3). The Greek word for ‘reveling’ literally means ‘drinking parties’. Nightclubs are places of reveling… and therefore, wrong.
