Tao Te Ching

“Christianity soiled the union of man and woman by stigmatizing it as a sin. Whereas formerly it was a holy act, a joyous submission to God's will, in the Christian's terror-shaken soul it degenerated into a transgression. Before Christ, sex was a red apple; along came Christ, and a worm entered that apple and began to eat it.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis 1883 – 1957 CE via P. A. Bien
from Report to Greco