Episode 167. From Occam to Galileo, weird dreams to white lies, why do all roads lead back to Onan?

Episode 167. From Occam to Galileo, weird dreams to white lies, why do all roads lead back to Onan?Craig and Jonah discuss the challenges and demands of parenting, balancing work and family, and how tough it is to be a good husband and father during the best of times. They discuss how abstinence and less intimacy, which results in PMAS (post marital act syndrome) makes these responsibilities more difficult.Jonah is visited in a dream by Craig, who tells everyone to go to confession if you fall in to solo sin. Frequent confession, whether you struggle with sexual sins of lust, masturbation, or porn or not, is just a good practice for Catholic men and women. A recent YouTube short when “viral” by our meager standards, and led to some very nice discussions and invitations for interviews for people to discuss their stories and lived experiences. https://youtube.com/shorts/qDYSERtJkVU?si=O3YYAwZr-pAVeswBCraig puts on his heretic hat for a moment and engage in some speculative theology as to what God really does and really doesn’t care about when it comes to sexual morality. Occam’s razor: “This philosophical razor advocates that when presented with competing hypotheses about the same prediction, one should prefer the one that requires the fewest assumptions[3] and that this is not meant to be a way of choosing between hypotheses that make different predictions.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razorDoes man and the Church’s past struggles with fitting our experience and observations in to an earth centered universe, bear any resemblance to the seeming complexity of the traditional nothings of man, sex, and concupiscence? Jonah is visited in a dream by the ghost of Craig, who tells everyone to go to confession if you fall in to solo sin.A recent YouTube short when “viral” by our meager standards, and led to some very nice discussions and invitations for interviews for people to discuss their stories and lived experiences. https://youtube.com/shorts/qDYSERtJkVU?si=O3YYAwZr-pAVeswB"2352 By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. "Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action." "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose." For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved."To form an equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability."#catholicpodcast #onan #onanfans #oldtestament #unchartedcatholicman #nfp #naturalfamilyplanning #marriage #catholicmarriage #abstinence #theologyofthebody #catechism #catholiccatechism #humanaevitae #contraception #chastity #faithfullness #catholic