Growing up Stupid in the House of the Lord

I sat in horror as a young, talented, handsome,  church going male outlined to me his myriad sexual escapades with young women, some of whom he met at church. My horror was not that this young man, one of the church's leading musicians, was having sex, but that he was having sex without any form of protection. Of course I opened up his sealed-shut eyes to the danger to which he was exposing himself, shocking him into contemplative silence.
 The use of condoms never crossed his thinking because it is simply something that church people do not think about. The very thought of their young people having sex is the furthest thing from church leaders' imagination, because of course, in their view, the young and not so young unmarried people simply know "what God has said in his holy word, amen" and that ought to be enough to make them keep their clothes on, and their sexual organs encased between their legs and absolutely unto themselves and the Lord until they are married.
 It was only after reflecting on what this boy had said to me, that I realized his dilemma. The young man had, very likely, never had a conversation about sex with his righteous mother and father. If he dared raise the subject to either, I imagine him being verbally shot down and shut up with two piercing passages of scripture, a reminder of the burning flames of hell, and a stern command to "get to know Jesus better". If he is not careful, his mother or father could very well grasp his hand and escort him to the front of the church at the next revival service. This is the nature of things in these fundamentalist Pentecostal churches in the Caribbean, whether they are Baptists, Adventists, Wesleyan Holiness or any other of these places of worship. That young man could not risk having a single condom in his parents' home, lest they locate it, perhaps by accidental discovery, and shame him in the house of the lord perhaps (if they are of the closed minded type that populate the churches) by pulling him off the instrument he plays in the church every Sunday morning.
 The best person for young people to discuss such issues with must be their parents. We know that Family Life Education( lovely title, isn't it?) is taught in many Caribbean schools, but with whom are many of these young, church-going people to discuss such matters at home?
I know of women who have married church men simply because they are "saved" and are now living in horror, because although the man is "saved", he  has minimal ambition beyond getting to heaven, and is lacking in basic common sense.
 Unless the church awakes and take its eyes out of the skies it will continue to contribute to the ruin of many more Caribbean young people by keeping them blind, myopic and stupid.