2007-07-10 04:16:35 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
LOL that is hilarious! Monty Python rocks!!!!
2007-07-10 04:25:09 · answer #1 · answered by RealRachel 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most Catholics don't but some still do. The Latin Mass is back this gives you hint that traditions die hard.
Also part of the humor of that song is based on old English prejudices of their Catholic minority. Keep in mind Catholics weren't full citizen in England until 1828 and the last of the anti-Catholic laws weren't struck down until 1949.
Hey I know quite a few people from other religions who would happily sing along with that old Monty Python number. If every sperm is sacred them we should only sex procreation -at least that is what they think.
2007-07-10 11:26:19 · answer #2 · answered by brianjames04 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well yes and no. There are hundreds of types of catholics and not even the pope can tell them apart. If you chose to pick one, then ask the chuch that you attend. Most catholics and christians and even other religions think like that. However, I personally find it unlogical since you get rid of the sperm anyway, whether it be manually or in your sleep. I strongly belive that its not the sperm that is sacred. Its your mind, your thoughts, and how you deal with that issue.
2007-07-10 11:22:21 · answer #3 · answered by Elite 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not familiar with this "Every Sperm is Sacred" that you are listening to. However, I am Catholic and remember as a child a certain neighbor woman of ours, who happened to be Catholic as well, telling my mom that it was the duty of a Catholic wife to always be available to satisfy the husband whenever he had a desire. She went on to justify this by telling my mother the Biblical story of Onan and the consequences he suffered for spilling his seed in chapter 38 of Genesis.
Judah's oldest son Er married Tamar. Er had done something that had greatly offended the LORD, so the LORD took Er's life. By custom, it was then the duty of Judah's second born son, Onan, to take up where his older brother had left off and "go into" Tamar so that the family legacy might be carried on. Onan did not like the idea of having children that would not be counted as his.
Verse 9 of Genesis 38 picks up the narration as follows; "so whenever he [Onan] had relations with his brother's widow, he wasted his seed on the ground, to avoid contributing offspring for his brother." Verse 10 continues, "What he did greatly offended the LORD, and the LORD took his life too."
The Catechism of the Catholic Church (par. 2352) teaches that masterbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action. "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose. For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved."
I guess all of this is just another way of perhaps viewing every sperm as a potential carrier of God's divine will of procreating and giving life to another human-being, created in His image and likeness. This is certainly not to say that masterbation is unforgiveable, but it is saying that our current societal and cultural notion of viewing sex so lightly, as simply a means of personal enjoyment and physical gratification, to be gravely depraved and way off the mark.
2007-07-10 12:15:58 · answer #4 · answered by soulguy85 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmmm,
Well we believe that masturbation and Artificial Birth Control are sins.
But we do not believe that every sperm is meant to become a person if that is what you are asking.
Peace!
2007-07-10 11:26:36 · answer #5 · answered by C 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Catholics cannot change beliefs...that would be admitting a belief was wrong prior. How can you have a strong hold over your fold if yesterday it would send you to hell but today...not so much...?
2007-07-10 12:04:56 · answer #6 · answered by Michael B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am not Catholic, but I think that the world should be totally overrun with starving poor. If you like the illegal alien problem now, just think of how wonderful it will be when the world population doubles then triples and there are even less resources to feed and clothe them. Of course we should have our policies dictated by the Vatican. To resist their policies is to be anti-Catholic and anti-Christian and anti-God. We need mass starvation!
2007-07-10 11:21:29 · answer #7 · answered by jxt299 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
It's not the 1800s
2007-07-10 11:20:31 · answer #8 · answered by Honey 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Why just the sperm...why not the egg as well. Hmmm...
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2007-07-10 11:22:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Including Hitler's and Jeffrey Dahmer's? Gee I don't think so. But the Pope might.
2007-07-10 11:20:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋