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[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

People latch on to that one line from the Bible, (loosely quoted from memory) "it is better to put your seed in a whore, than to spill it in the dirt."

I'm not so sure people's understanding of that vague line quite captures what its intended meaning was, especially considering a history of interpretive language translations.

[–]Anman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeeeahhh. That is not in the bible. That is a catholic commentary thing.

they took the following verses:

8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.” 9 But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. 10 What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.

The expected duty was to impregnate the woman, not to just have sex with her. That is why he was killed. But some run with the idea that he was killed because he spilled his seed. Which in other parts of the bible is not a death penalty.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That verse fully supports the Catholic interpretation.

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No. Im not even going to argue. So go and take your paganistic perversion of christianitiy and stick it some little kids ass.