Prejean drops lawsuit after revelation

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How do you record a naked video of yourself wanking and at same time champion christianity ?
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Sarevok wrote:How do you record a naked video of yourself wanking and at same time champion christianity ?
On the one hand, she could be a hypocrite. On the other hand, her views could have changed in the several years since she made the video.
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besides the old testiment only says guys can't wank.
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The Yosemite Bear wrote:besides the old testiment only says guys can't wank.
From a religious literalism / fundamentalist point of view that is a hilarious loophole. Do you have any exact quotes at handd ?
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Sarevok wrote:How do you record a naked video of yourself wanking and at same time champion christianity ?
...the same way you handle all of the other cognitive dissonance that comes with being a Chrsitian in the modern world?

I mean really - we all know that every brand of Christianity today involves picking and choosing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. Hell, they have to, simply because of all of the contradictions in their imaginary man's rule book.

They follow the rules they're comfortable with, and ignore the rest, while pretending that they're being totally consistent. Same as Prejean did.
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Sarevok wrote:
The Yosemite Bear wrote:besides the old testiment only says guys can't wank.
From a religious literalism / fundamentalist point of view that is a hilarious loophole. Do you have any exact quotes at handd ?
It doesn't say women CAN masturbate, it just only prohibits the 'spilling of a man's seed upon the ground'. Women don't have that problem when they masturbate, so they aren't prohibited under this tenet. As to where, I'd guess Leviticus.
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CaptainChewbacca wrote:
Sarevok wrote:
The Yosemite Bear wrote:besides the old testiment only says guys can't wank.
From a religious literalism / fundamentalist point of view that is a hilarious loophole. Do you have any exact quotes at handd ?
It doesn't say women CAN masturbate, it just only prohibits the 'spilling of a man's seed upon the ground'. Women don't have that problem when they masturbate, so they aren't prohibited under this tenet. As to where, I'd guess Leviticus.
And if you really wanted to go with a literalistic interpretation, guys can fap too, so long as they catch the semen before it makes a mess on the ground. For all we know, it could have been a prohibition against uncleanliness rather than masturbation. In a similar vein, there are no direct prohibitions against homosexuality, just an admonishment against 'laying with man as one lays with woman'. In which case it seems more a dictate against crossdressers than gays.

...which doesn't much help me out either way.
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Onan's sin wasn't even about him masturbating; it was about him ruining his dead brother's inheritance by failing to knock up his sister-in-law because his brother didn't have any kids by her. He pulled out so he could get the inheritance, not the sister-in-law's children by Onan, who would recieve Onan's brother's inheritance. The spilling of his seed only relates to Onan insofar as he's fucking over a widow with inheritance legal issues.
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Yeah, if anything the whole thing is an injunction against pulling out rather than masturbating. And yeah, since the whole thing says nothing about women, this could make the next big thing in ways to get around prohibitions against sex like the whole 'You're still technically a virgin if you do anal' thing you occasionally see floating around.
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