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Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond
I mean, "say a bunch of hail Marys" may not sound like much to modern ears
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Oh, what the heck, let's talk about punishment.
It's a dry book and punishment makes sex….Interesting.
Does anybody know exactly what "
fast" means in this context? I thought "fast" means no food at all, but obviously that's impossible to do for 10 years:
Whoever fornicates with an effeminate male or with another man or with an animal must fast for 10 years.
-S74.01.02
I assume "
fornicates" doesn't mean "
lay with", it means doing anything sexually pleasurable. "
Laying with" a man is a death penalty crime in the Bible, but lesser forms of fornication (say, a baseball team whose butt-slaps are too gentle to be properly macho) calls for lesser punishments.
And by "
repent", what action are we talking about, exactly?
Whoever ejaculates seed into the mouth, that is the worst evil. From someone it was judged that they repent this up to the end of their lives. -S75.04.01
I can just see some priest saying "You say you're sorry? You don't SOUND sorry. I'LL make you sorry!"
It has to mean something, because the punishment for oral is tougher than the punishment for murder:
The murderer does penance for 10 years or 7 years. - S76.02.02 I