BluePhantom
Educator (of liberals)
Interesting to me is the comment about the advice against masturbation was really nothing more than a misinterpretation.
Well unfortunately there is a great deal of Christian belief that comes from tradition and not the Bible. Sometimes it's innocent misinterpretation, sometimes it was quite intentional (as with Paul in 1st Corinthians). Sometimes they flat out just made shit up.
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So in the Middle Ages especially a lot of these traditions were started by the church in order to control the actions of the people and keep the church's total dominance over the western world. Meanwhile, of course the Popes and Cardinals had lovers and children while in office and were screwing everything in sight. But those traditions became so ingrained in Christian dogma that many of them remain to the current day and a lot of Christians are quite shocked to learn that a major element of their faith has nothing to do with what it says in the Bible.