Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site akgua.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!akgua!rjb From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob]) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.religion Subject: Re: Re: Its a bad law Message-ID: <1190@akgua.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 07:49:13 EST Article-I.D.: akgua.1190 Posted: Thu Jan 17 07:49:13 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 06:37:20 EST References: <266@mhuxj.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Technologies/Bell Labs, Atlanta Lines: 12 Xref: watmath net.flame:7836 net.religion:5315 You miss the entire point of the Law Onan broke. He broke the Law of continuing his brother's family name through having a male descendent. It was his obligation to his brother's family to do this. For reasons we do not know, he performed 'coitus interruptus'. That is why he got dealt with so harshly. (to our way of thinking) Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}