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Where Did All Those Babies Go?
I just came back from Cambridge and read the blogs with real interest and curiosity, since I was off GBT the whole time. What caught my attention most was a posting about Jesus and His real attitudes. In general I have problems with his followers. Some of the received opinions are just wrong and unfair. My prime example is Saint Gerome, translator of the Latin (Vulgate) Bible in use at least until the Reformation Era.
Gerome wrote a comment on the "sin" of Onan, who scattered his seed upon the ground (masturbated). Gerome used bad Greek biology to hold that Onan had killed babies, because of the Greek idea that the man had the seed of life and the woman just carried the baby to term - you could call this the woman as flower pot notion of conception. In other words the man was the generator and the woman just a receptor,
This is possibly the stupidest theory ever put forth, since the first question ever asked when the baby is born is "who does he/she look like, the mom or dad?" My friend Alexis said that only crabby, celibate men could believe such crap.
But now that you know the source of such BS, you can enjoy new freedom. Every time you jerked off you didn't kill any babies. And if you suck your best friend's dick that's OK. If you fuck guys or like to be fucked, enjoy! No baby was ever killed by a BJ or ass fuck.
Don't pay any attention to religious BS. Live the way your adult heart tells you, Be happy together. Cheers!
PS - The washed up beauty queen Anita Bryant was peddling this as part of her hateful AIDS rants.
PPS - I'm not saying anything against those who practice celibacy for religious reasons, which is their free choice. But I am speaking against those who use hate speech and propose discriminatory laws based upon unexamined, unreasonable premises!