Darth Wong wrote:The Old Testament character Onan pulled out early and "spilled his seed" rather than impregnating his mate. God was furious and killed him on the spot, because that's just the kind of God he is. Fundies concluded that everything about Onan should be considered evil; they have used this incident to attack both masturbation and all kinds of contraceptive technique.
Oh, no, that just an allegory to teach us about how uhh... not obeying god's every whim is justification enough for execution? Help me out here, how would the typical religious apologist explain this passage?
Why, the answer is right here:
There are Jews in the world.
There are Buddhists.
There are Hindus and Mormons, and then
There are those that follow Mohammed,
But,
I've never been one of them.
I'm a Roman Catholic,
And have been since before I was born,
And the one thing they say about Catholics is
They'll take you as soon as you're warm.
You don't have to be a six-footer.
You don't have to have a great brain.
You don't have to have any clothes on.
You're a Catholic the moment Dad came,
Because...
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.
Children: Every sperm is sacred,
Every sperm is great,
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.
Little Girl: Let the heathens spill theirs,
On the dusty ground.
God shall make them pay for
Each sperm that can't be found.
Children: Every sperm is wanted.
Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed
In your neighbourhood.
Mother: Hindu, Taoist, Mormon,
Spill theirs just anywhere,
But God loves those who treat their
Semen with more care.
Men on toilets: Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
Women: If a sperm is wasted,
Children: God gets quite irate.
Priest: Every sperm is sacred.
Bride and Groom: Every sperm is good.
Nannies: Every sperm is needed
Babies: In your neighbourhood!
Everyone: Every sperm is useful.
Every sperm is fine.
Undertakers: God needs everybody's.
Male mourner: Mine!
Female mourner: And mine!
Corpse: And mine!
Nuns: Let the Pagans spill theirs
O'er mountain, hill, and plain.
Statues: God shall strike them down for
Each sperm that's spilt in vain.
Everyone: Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed
In your neighbourhood.
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite iraaaaate!
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People pray so that God won't crush them like bugs.
—Dr. Gregory House
Oil an emergency?! It's about time, Brigadier, that the leaders of this planet of yours realised that to remain dependent upon a mineral slime simply doesn't make sense.
—The Doctor "Terror Of The Zygons" (1975)
Darth Wong wrote:What's next? A doctor who refuses to administer a blood transfusion because he converted to the Jehovah's Witnesses last week?
If you want to keep the analogy accurate he would have to run into somone's hospital and dump their blood down the drain.
Devolution is quite as natural as evolution, and may be just as pleasing, or even a good deal more pleasing, to God. If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.
Darth Wong wrote:What's next? A doctor who refuses to administer a blood transfusion because he converted to the Jehovah's Witnesses last week?
If you want to keep the analogy accurate he would have to run into somone's hospital and dump their blood down the drain.
In this singular case, yes. Not when talking about pharmacists who refuse to fill contraceptive pill prescriptions in general.
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Darth Wong wrote:What's next? A doctor who refuses to administer a blood transfusion because he converted to the Jehovah's Witnesses last week?
If you want to keep the analogy accurate he would have to run into somone's hospital and dump their blood down the drain.
In this singular case, yes. Not when talking about pharmacists who refuse to fill contraceptive pill prescriptions in general.
Of course.
Devolution is quite as natural as evolution, and may be just as pleasing, or even a good deal more pleasing, to God. If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.
salm wrote:do you have to have a perscription for contraceptive pills in the states, or is it just something you need if you want your insurance to refund you? because here you can simply walk into a pharmacy and buy them without perscription.
so if it´s actually possible to get the pills without perscription the guy was being an asshole but not as big of an asshole as he´d be if you necessarily need a prescription.
They are all by perscription in the US.
I think there are some good health reasons to see a physician before starting on birth control pills.
Not that there wouldn't be reistance to making them over the counter because that would make it too easy for "kids" to get them and start having lots and lots of sex. Good thing anyone can buy condoms.
By the pricking of my thumb,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks.
salm wrote:do you have to have a perscription for contraceptive pills in the states, or is it just something you need if you want your insurance to refund you? because here you can simply walk into a pharmacy and buy them without perscription.
so if it´s actually possible to get the pills without perscription the guy was being an asshole but not as big of an asshole as he´d be if you necessarily need a prescription.
Yes, you must have a prescription for birth control pills.
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salm wrote:do you have to have a perscription for contraceptive pills in the states, or is it just something you need if you want your insurance to refund you? because here you can simply walk into a pharmacy and buy them without perscription.
so if it´s actually possible to get the pills without perscription the guy was being an asshole but not as big of an asshole as he´d be if you necessarily need a prescription.
Yes, you must have a prescription for birth control pills.
hmm... i just googled this and it seems that you need one here, too. i just thought that you don´t need one because when i was on vacation in france a female friend of mine had lost her pills and we needed to get new ones. she didn´t go see a doctor, so i guessed that she didn´t have a prescription. but there are porbably prescriptions which last longer than once.
meh, i was speaking based on hasty observation, aka my ass.
Good thing anyone can buy condoms. 
