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Originally Posted by Brooke
Quote from : http://www127.pair.com/critical/food-03.htm
I looked up the verse in question. Onan was guilty of the sin of refusing Gods direct order to consumate with his brothers wife. The Jewish tradition is called "levirate marriage" - The issue with wasted sperm is primarily a church tradition - and especially the Catholic Churches fixation on sperm has been noted (Monty Python "Every Sperm is Sacred")
Are there any other verses? Can someone - using scripture - argue to me that there is a biblical basis for this? What do modern day spiritual leaders say about this? Is there adminition against these pratices in other holy works for other religions?
I hope also that I got the right forum - this can be mostly reviewed as a religious discussion. |
I must say that I've never heard anybody substantiate that claim. As a minister, I would never consider masturbation a sin, nor would I tell anybody else so. Remember that A) Monty Python was a comedy group, and their songs are only for entertainment purposes B) many of these nonsensical rules--i.e. missionary position, no masturbation, don't spill semen--are carried over from when people thought sexual control was the key to solving the world's problems. Then they thought that semen was a necessary fluid for a man. Let's not revert back to that thinking please. We're smarter than that.