At first they offered a small wooden hut on a barren plain where it rained non-stop for six months and then baked the rest with only the companionship of an aged goat, but there were few takers.
[QUOTE=Kimstu;18903601Modern western culture and spirituality, of course, have been heavily influenced by Christian thought, which is why the idea of sex in heaven seems so shocking and almost perverse even to many people nowadays who don’t consider themselves Christian.[/QUOTE]
I’ve been around christians my whole life and never once heard any suggestion there was no sex in Heaven. Marriage, no because that is attachment, but sex is fine. In fact, since the 1890s christians in the West don’t get bothered about sex, nor condemnatory. Maybe it’s different in America.
For what is worth Buddhism is pretty clear that theres no sex in Heaven. If you are obsessed by sex and “cling” to it, then you’ll get reborn as a lower animal like a goat or a rabbit that gets to do sex all day long. This is Tibetan Buddhism as represented in the Tibetan Book of the Dead anyway. YMMV with other branches of Buddhism, not much is constant with them all
According to the Tibetan Book of the Dead all you have to do is focus on sexual imagery in your mind in your dying moments and it will happen automatically. May not be a goat but it will some animal that is focused primarily on copulation.
Goat schmoat. Come back a healthy Triple Crown winning stallion. Three years of racing and then a lifetime of pampering in a stable fancier than 98% of America’s housing, having the finest females of your species regularly brought to you.
You can smirk all you want but what they get offered is multiple houris who are “young women of firm breast” or similar. They might be being lied to but at least the Quran is clear they are being offered young firm women, not virgin pudgy gamers.
“The” Jewish writing on Paradise (“gan Eden”) does no such thing. Over two millennia of freely allowed creative exploration revealing a certain strain with one of very very few “proof texts” with the authority, such as it is, of Midrash, does not an eschatological principle make.
It is well known that descriptions of life/whatever in the world to come are in themselves, if not deprecated, a minor endeavor in normative Judaism. A waste of time, essentially.
:dubious: So? My point is merely that such descriptions in Jewish theological writings do not reject the notion of sex in the afterlife for the souls of the righteous. I’m not trying to claim that this is a crucial issue in mainstream Jewish doctrine.
Similarly, I doubt that the question of exactly what kind or how many celestial beings the souls of the righteous get to have sex with in the afterlife is a crucial issue in mainstream Muslim doctrine. So it’s rather puzzling to note how obsessed many non-Muslims seem to be with that question.
An online resource said women get 72 metrosexual jinn to feed then non-fattening bonbons, and either tell them what happened that day on their soaps, or just listens contentedly to the faithful woman’s feelings, according to her whim. (The houris are supposed to be able to restore their virginity at the man’s whim.)
That online reference didn’t quote a source, but I think its an awesome description of heaven, even better the our master’s contrast of the Native American Happy Hunting Grounds vs the Christian Happy Harping Grounds.
Oh great! Seventy-two fumblers who will be so excited they won’t last more than two minutes each, with skin so transparent I can see all the SEXY marrow.
