Truly Madly Purely Jimmy (Carter)

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Christine O’Donnell has accomplished the impossible: She’s made Jimmy Carter look like a libertine.
The last time the phrase “lust in your heart” swept through American politics was in 1976 when Carter admitted to Playboy that, while he had always been faithful to soul (and sole) mate Rosalynn, he had committed adultery in his heart.

“I dropped 15 percentage points, and I almost lost the election,” Carter, about to turn 86, recalled in a chat during his book tour in Manhattan this week, adding with some wry hyperbole: “It was the most copies of Playboy ever sold.”

O’Donnell’s stance on the auto-erotic is auto-idiotic. “The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery,” she once said. “So you can’t masturbate without lust.”

Carter, who liked to recite the Bible in Spanish with Rosalynn just for fun, told me that while the Old Testament story of Onan warns against wasting thy seed on the ground, he doesn’t agree with O’Donnell.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/opinion/22dowd.html?ref=opinion

[RandomThoughts]

1. It is possible that verse is not about sex.

It would apply to where you share thoughts and concepts also.

Since 'baby' is also a thought or idea in metaphor.

I sometimes think on that, although I feel that good seed will find root anywhere, it just might take more time and care in some cases. In other words if the soil is tilled and handled with loving care, a sand or rock can become good soil. So maybe it is both finding good soil for seeds, and also trying to care for the ground to also nurture ground into good soil.

Maybe even a little compost or fertilizer at times :)

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2. "The Bible says" a whole bunch of absolute shit.

Anyone starting their policies with "The Bible says" is wrong and not to be trusted.