Words from the Saints

Saint John Chrysostom on women's dress.

"You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not, indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment. ... When you have made another sin in his heart, how can you be innocent? Tell me, whom does this world condemn? Whom do judges punish? Those who drink poison or those who prepare it and administer the fatal potion? You have prepared the abominable cup, you have given the death dealing drink, and you are more criminal than are those who poison the body; you murder not the body but the soul. And it is not to enemies you do this, nor are you urged on by any imaginary necessity, nor provoked by injury, but out of foolish vanity and pride."


"And its not to enemies you do this"
ouch! in other words, when we dress provocatively, we
"have prepared the abominable cup, you have given the death dealing drink"
To none other then to those we love!
Can we call ourselves true friends, while knowingly committing such a mean act?

Saint John Chrysostom lived in the forth century, the way women dressed back then was much tamer then now, and his words are strongly spoken on the loose flowing Roman and Greek styles. If some of the fashions back then could be so harmful for the soul, what is the little bits of fabric girls wear doing to their male friends soul?
Not only is the fashions of today harmful to others, they degrade the wearer, they kill all respect for the wearer, and the reduce her to nothing other then what she chooses to show. She is no longer a person.

My conclusion,
Wear clothes. Not small bits of fabric that cover practically nothing.



Side note,
I wish I could write as powerfully as St Jonh. :s