Yes the whole “multiple [female] virgins” (leaving the raisins aside for purposes of argument) is a bit of a giveaway, isn’t it. It’s not about lashings of sex for all, it’s about lashings of sex for males and tiny fractions of sex for females. Funny, in a way.
Ophelia Benson is a columnist for Free Inquiry and the co-author of The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense, Why Truth Matters, and Does God Hate Women?
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Rodney Nelson
January 6, 2013 at 3:33 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
The Islamic afterlife always struck me as being the wishful thinking of a 15 year old male virgin.
Improbable Joe
January 6, 2013 at 3:42 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
… and considering the folks that those fairy tales were created to motivate, it is absolutely no surprise is it?
Ophelia Benson
January 6, 2013 at 3:59 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yes the whole “multiple [female] virgins” (leaving the raisins aside for purposes of argument) is a bit of a giveaway, isn’t it. It’s not about lashings of sex for all, it’s about lashings of sex for males and tiny fractions of sex for females. Funny, in a way.
Marcus Ranum
January 8, 2013 at 6:14 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
So I guess that if there’s sex in the afterlife it’s not REALLY about reproduction. Looks like an own-goal from the creos.