{"id":914,"date":"2007-09-04T07:27:07","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T12:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/914"},"modified":"2007-09-04T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T12:27:07","slug":"uhmi-dont-think-that-was-god-telling-you-to-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/914","title":{"rendered":"Uhm&#8230;I Don&#8217;t Think That Was God Telling You To Do That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a world where the major religions didn&#8217;t teach everyone that sex itself was innately wicked and sinful&#8230;that sin was only in hurting and taking advantage of others.&nbsp; Imagine a world where preachers didn&#8217;t teach people that their bodies are evidence of their fallen status, objects of shame, and not beautiful in their own right, to be taken care of and treated with respect.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatica.com\/actual\/article.asp?subchannel_id=81&amp;story_id=43445\"><strong>Man cuts off his penis &lsquo;to stop him sinning&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SALAMANCA &ndash; A man cut off his own penis and threw it in a toilet &lsquo;so he would stop sinning&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old was recovering in the Hospital Clinico Universitario in Salamanca in western Spain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The local newspaper La Gaceta reported when relatives called emergency services, he told ambulance workers he did it &ldquo;so would not sin any more&rdquo;.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>He was bleeding heavily.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said it was not known if the man&rsquo;s penis could be sewn back.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a suggestion he may be suffering from psychological problems.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nI read crap like this and I just find myself shaking my head and wondering how the hell it ever came to this.&nbsp; What other creature on this good earth, besides us humans, punish themselves for feeling desire?&nbsp; I can&#8217;t believe that just having rational thought capable minds does this to us, because behavior like this just isn&#8217;t rational.&nbsp; If you could, in some imaginary laboratory, start the history of the human race over from day one, and run it as a simulation, would you still end up with the major faiths of the world teaching us to fear and loath our sexual nature, to the point where some people even mutilate themselves?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What the fuck happened to us&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a world where the major religions didn&#8217;t teach everyone that sex itself was innately wicked and sinful&#8230;that sin was only in hurting and taking advantage of others.&nbsp; Imagine a world where preachers didn&#8217;t teach people that their bodies are evidence of their fallen status, objects of shame, and not beautiful in their own right, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,54,21],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-religion","tag-sex","tag-the-abyss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}