Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Sex, the Bible, and Bertrand Russell
Motherhood is an offense against God, if the baby is a girl. Lev. 12: 1-5
Eunuchs and virgins are superior to father and mothers, according to the New Testament. Jesus: “There be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. Matt. 19:10-12
The doctrine of the Virgin Birth brands every natural mother as impure. Though Mary got pregnant by God while she was still married to Joseph.
The so-called Word of God says ( Paul speaking, 1 Cor. 7:1 ): “It is good for a man not to touch a women.” So birth control or family planning is not a sin after all.
1 Cor. 7 is a course dissertation on marriage.
Jesus and Paul preached asceticism – renunciation of the world and its pleasures for a problematical hereafter. They suffered from the failure of guts. The refused to face the realities of life.
There are in heaven 144,000 virgin men whom woman has never “defiled.” Rev. 14:1-4 sex is insane. Probably written by an impotent saint.
Jesus preached no divorce. Mark 10:2-12 and Luke 16:18. This anti-sociaL teaching has been repudiated by every American state, except the most backward of nations like the Philippines.
All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
Modern prophylaxis and conception control information have revolutionized sex relations, robbing them of terror and fear. The tribal taboos embedded in the bible may be safely abandoned. Let’s be guided by reason rather than by faith or tradition.
Genesis 2:16: “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.” When a Christian hears a women screaming with pain in childbirth, he reflects that God is getting even with Eve for eating an apple.
For my part, I would take any day or night the sexual views of Bertrand Russell as more sane and healthy. Russell saw thru the cruel state of affairs as regards the sexual relationship between men and women: In his MARRIAGE AND MORALS, Russell wrote: “The doctrine that there is something sinful about sex is one which has done untold harm to individual character – a harm beginning in early childhood and continuing throughout life. By keeping sex love in a prison, conventional morality has done much to imprison all other forms of friendly feelings, and to make men less generous, less kindly, more assertive and more cruel. Whatever sexual ethics may come to be ultimately accepted must be free from superstition and must have recognizable and demonstrable grounds in its favor.” Poch Suzara
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