Why is sperm not considered life "prochoice arguments"
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Well, yes, kinda. I'm Catholic, and Onanism is a mortal sin.
Is a mortal sin? I figured that the church is generally against it but that seems insane.
Everybody's misreading the passage anyways.
Jewish Law: If your brother dies without children, you are to take his wife as your own and give her a son so she has someone to take care of her in her old age (the boy will be legally your brother's son, not yours).
Onan's brother kicks off.
Onan marries his brother's wife. She consents, because she doesn't want to die alone and destitute.
Onan fucks his brother's wife but always pulls out, because he doesn't want her to actually get pregnant.
Onan is condemned and struck down for his actions.
Now, a sane person would read this story and say "Wow, Onan was a miserable son of a bitch, shirking his social obligations while reaping the rewards. No wonder OT God smoked him."
The person who read that story and decided God was against wasting sperm instead of objecting to the rape-by-deception and violation of the social contract - I'd like them to defend their reasoning.
I think it's because Christians in general don't pay much mind to the bits specifically about Jewish law in the OT, especially those parts that might be bizarrely alien in the eyes of non-Jewish cultures ... a kind of cross-cultural disconnect that happened when Roman Christianity was divesting itself of its troublesome Jewish rebel roots, or w/e.
You'd think the theologians would care, and they were the ones who got it wrong in the first place.
I have never heard that passage preached any differently than the above comment so I have no clue what you're on about
Uptight no pussy mfs that's who
Tell that to God, who killed Onan for spilling his seed on purpose.