Onan, which is why wanking is called onanism. To me itâs an odd story because it seems more like a social construct than a divine command. So I wonder if itâs been heavily abridged and he died for some other reason thatâs been left out and they just said God did it because they wanted to reinforce that construct. If God really had a habit of dropping bodies just for spilling their seed, well, letâs just say thereâd be several thousand reasons why I wouldnât be typing this right now.
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CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social â¨2⊠â¨days⊠agoItâs been a long time since I read any of the bible, but wasnât there some story in it somewhere where some guy uses that and is immediately killed by god or something? (albiet I think the justification was some sort of tradition obligating him to have a child with a specific person, and his behavior was supposed to be exploiting that without fulfilling his end or something like that).
letsgo@lemm.ee â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world â¨1⊠â¨day⊠ago
Ancient stories are almost always parabolic. If thereâs not a lesson to be made, then itâs not preserved. Recording history only for historyâs sake a fairly modern value. So youâre absolutely right. Ancient texts, especially scriptures, tend to attribute things to god whenever itâs convenient for the narrative.
Broadfern@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
spankmonkey@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
No idea, but wouldnât be surprised.
andros_rex@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
Onan was punished because he was trying to fuck over Tamar. Tamar was his brotherâs wife, and died. Because women had essentially no rights or property, it was expected that a widow without children would be given to her husbands brother, so he could knock her up and have a son to take care of her.
Onan was trying to screw Tamar out of being able to survive - trying to make it so that he would inherit all of his father Judahâs money. God noticed this, and killed him.
The funny part is the follow up - Judah has another son, but is like âoh shit, this women is cursed. Sheâs lead to the death of two of my sons, I donât want to lose the last one.â So he tells her to go hang out with her parents until his son is âreadyâ - clearly intending to blow her off forever.
So Tamar eventually catches on, realizes that sheâs never getting whatâs hers, so dresses up like a temple prostitute and goes to the city. Judah comes across her disguised as a prostitute, and she asks for his family crest as payment for their roll in the hay.
After this, she becomes pregnant. The elders of the group bring her before Judah, saying âhey, your daughter in law is a massive whore and is pregnant. Weâre going to kill her.â He asks her who knocked her up, she produces the crest.
Judah is then like âoh dang, you got me.â She doesnât get killed, she gets her inheritance, and is possibly an ancestor of Jesus.
Really an amazing trickster figure - very reminiscent of Jacob and Esau.