>>121636614There are several little things in the bible that you could say were blown way out of context or taken the wrong way ect and change major stereotypes about the religion.
For example, "I am my brothers keeper." comes from Genesis. After committing the first murder against his brother, God asks Caine if he know where able is. Caine replies "No, am I my brother's keeper?"
A smart ass remark that could have been reworded as "How the fuck should I know?" without losing an iota of meaning... Becomes a major Christian life lesson about watching out for your fellow man because yes. You are his keeper.
Holy shit right?
To your point, why God supposedly hates for you to masturbate.
When a man named Er died, his father Judah commanded that his younger brother Onan enter into a certain type of marriage with Er's widow Tamar. Er was killed before he could father a son, and so Onan was basically commanded to knock Tamar up in his stead. Sure said Onan, and so he started fucking Tamar. But, aha! He had a brilliant plan! Today we call it "having a strong pull out game". He "spilled his seed on the ground" to avoid actually getting her pregnant, and God struck him down for this evil deed!
So, nutting outside your wife's vagina is a sin.
But ackchyually... It probably wasn't nutting on her face that did him in. That special type of a marriage? It was called a levirate marriage. The entire purpose was to give Tamar a son, which legally would have been Er's heir. Not Onan's. That matters because it would make this tiny penis owner the oldest son of Judah's dead oldest son. So if he stays a theory... Then Onan becomes the sole heir of Judah, getting all his shit when the old man dies. And he married Tamar, so he gets all of Er's shit too. Plus he's fucking his wife, and nutting on her face apparently.
So yeah, he did shit a lot more "evil" than jerking off.
But nope, the lesson biblical scholars took from the whole story is "Jesus cries when you masturbate."
