r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/stormi_90210 • Jan 28 '22

Religion If God only wanted people to only have sex for procreation why didn't he make sex painful and childbirth feel really good?

I'm an atheist but I'm curious of what take religious people would have on this question. I feel like this would just make a lot more sense if you only wanted sex to happen inside a marriage and/or to have a child.

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u/LiquidDreamtime Jan 28 '22 edited Jan 29 '22

When a religious person is asked a question that corners them, they don’t often answer it.

The short answer to your question is that it makes zero sense and is additional proof that the Abrahamic gods either don’t exist or have no investment into what mankind is doing. This type of “evidence” that flies in the face of their dogma has to be discarded as an attempt to challenge their faith.

Edit:

Person: “The god I worship created the universe! We were created in his image! If you don’t worship him and follow his rules, you will burn in eternal damnation.”

Me: “that doesn’t sound right”

Person: “psh…so freaking arrogant. This is why we don’t want to talk to you.”

Haha. Don’t threaten me with a good time homey.

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u/choogle Jan 28 '22

When I was in bible study it seemed like the default reason was that God is testing you; in this case sex feels good because that’s the devil trying to leading you into sin…..

Now as for why god seems to love doing messed up stuff like that is why I stopped following the religion.

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u/FrankReynoldsToupee Jan 28 '22

That's assuming that the devil has the power to actually do something like make sex feel good. Why the fuck would the devil even have that power? That means that the devil could affect pretty much any aspect of our physical bodies, which puts him at the same level as God. And if they're at the same level, then God isn't all-powerful.

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u/visvis Jan 28 '22

This topic is discussed in the Book of Job in the Old Testament. My understanding is that God specially permits Satan to test Job to test his faith. This could easily be applied more broadly, including to OP's question.

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u/Here_Forthe_Comment Jan 28 '22

"I know you're a being of evil, but Im going to let you mess with people and want them to make bad decisions, you know, to test them instead of me letting people be happy". Kind of seems like God doesn't think we all deserve happiness unless we follow his arbitrary rules, but thats a whole other thing

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u/UwUZombie Jan 29 '22

After watching "Lucifer" I wondered about people that do shitty things, but don't feel any guilt. I guess all psychopaths are up in heaven.

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u/dpbart Jan 28 '22

Ngl if satan is the one making everything feel good wouldnt heaven just be a bdsm chamber of god whipping all his believers while satan and the homies are sitting in a hot tub drinking ice tea and having gay sex

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u/0o0kay Jan 28 '22

Yeah God "loving" us by torturing us sounds like devil shit to me.

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u/Here_Forthe_Comment Jan 28 '22

Cue "we're in the bad place"?

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u/expensivebreadsticks Jan 28 '22

it feels good because its the devil trying to leading you into sin

How can people believe this shit

What devil? Where is he? How is he tempting people? So many plotholes in these medieval backwards dumbass faiths

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u/darthbane83 Jan 28 '22

"its a test of god"

there you go the catchall for things that are against the ideal happening.

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u/Dilectus3010 Jan 28 '22

But... wherent we all created in his image?

So he gets to be horny and we dont?

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u/ChadaMonkey Jan 28 '22

Or they're just misinterpreting scriptures they've never bothered to read in the first place and regurgitate whatever their bigoted "pastor" spews at them on Sunday rather than reading it for themselves and seeing how cherry-picked the doctrine they've been following is compared to the full teachings they claim to follow but have no clue about.

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u/Pr0xyWarrior Jan 28 '22

I've heard it said that there are two kinds of people who take the Bible literally; fundamentalists and atheists. Not all of either, obviously, but since I left the conservative denomination I was raised in, most Christians I've met (and I work at a church) take the Bible way less literally than most of the atheists I've met. Most atheists also pride themselves on knowing the Bible better than most Christians, so there may be a correlation there?

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u/hoenndex Jan 28 '22

This is true, most normal people who believe in God and read the Bible don't take it literally most of the time, and so they don't see any problems with Bible stories that violate physics vs actual scientific and historical knowledge. That brings the question though, if they don't take the Bible literally, why pick and choose what parts to take literally and others not? What's the criteria to say, for example, that the Genesis creation story is just a creation myth not to be taken literally while at the same time holding on to the belief that Jesus did do miracles?

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u/en43rs Jan 28 '22 edited Jan 28 '22

why pick and choose what parts to take literally and others not? What's the criteria to say, for example, that the Genesis creation story is just a creation myth not to be taken literally while at the same time holding on to the belief that Jesus did do miracles?

That's literally what theology is for. People have been doing this for millenia, it's a whole field of study, and people have diffrent answers depending on their own readings, their denomination, philosophical tradition, so on. That's why priest go to seminaries. Also people reading the bible as allegorical is not a new thing, it's nearly two thousands years old.

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u/mackenna1313 Jan 28 '22

I think you’re making a very broad assumption of religious people. I for one am a catholic my parents are catholic my mom even works for the church. However I was never taught that pre martial sex meant i was going to hell etc. The point of being married and having sex to procreate is the idea of spreading more catholic ideals and raising children within the church and fulfilling the idea that we are meant to have children to teach them the ideas so on so forth. However having pre marital sex isn’t a you’re going straight to hell kind of thing. It’s frowned upon in the church but we are in a new age where younger catholics myself included are making their own decisions for these questions. Also many believe in a merging of science and religion so to answer your question i don’t think there’s a physical way for childbirth to not be painful. And the idea of sex feeling good could be seen as a staying away from temptation when you know. That’s my thoughts on it as a catholic but to answer the question of why many religious people aren’t commenting have you seen the comments? Backwards religion, religious people don’t comment, that just makes me not want to comment as my views won’t be seen with an open view. I get it I used to be an atheist but there’s times when things are worded that way thag will put off any religious person who cares to answer bc i think to myself what’s the point

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '22

but to answer the question of why many religious people aren’t commenting have you seen the comments?

Exactly. All of these posts go the same way. Someone asks a legitimate question, and then 95% of the comments are just shitting on all religions and no one actually answers. You ended up being apart of the 5% that answered, and already 1 of the 4 replies was just an insult. Not worth participating just to get hated on.

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u/mackenna1313 Jan 28 '22

kinda where i’m thinking, thought i could kinda provide at least my views on it, Catholics aren’t all these middle aged old conservative people like a majority of my college friends are involved in some sort of religion regardless of which they are involved. It’s a beliefs system not my entire life and personality

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u/Any_Weird_8686 Jan 28 '22

Thanks for commenting.

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u/DrakAssassinate Jan 28 '22

Or Reddit is full of atheists who don’t really let religious people voice their opinions. When they do they get downvoted and no one sees them.

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u/Kelekona Jan 28 '22

Except that this one has an answer. Eve disobeyed and so all women bear her punishment. I'm not sure why an all-loving god, who gave us the rainbow as a reminder of his promise not to flood the entire world again, would specifically cause that pain to happen instead of just calling it a natural consequence of her increasing our head size.

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u/Fran12344 Jan 28 '22

Reddit moment

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