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Correlation does not equal causation. Being religious doesn't cause the belief that fapping is wrong. Being Christian causes it. Being Christian also causes being religious, but not the other way around. So it's a common cause leading to correlation, not an actual causal relationship. And it isn't a logical deduction either.
OP should have been studying philosophy instead of fapping, maybe then he wouldn't make logical mistakes which inadvertently erase the diversity of religious experiences.
Ok, which religion is masturbation positive though? Islam, Judaism, Buddism, ... ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_on_masturbation
This is a tiny fraction of the religions that sometimes or always allow masturbation. I'm not seeing any indigenous American, Australian, or Austronesian religions in this article.
TIL, thanks for the link and excerpt.
Thanks for keeping an open mind. A lot of people are taught from childhood that Abrahamism is representative of all religion, and they stick to that even when the truth is in front of their face. This state of affairs was manufactured, it didn't used to be like this. People used to be a lot more accepting of religions they didn't understand. In fact, before the Roman Empire, most people believed in the gods of every religion, and that was normal. And I can also assure you the ancient Greeks didn't have Christian reservations about sexual pleasure. They had their own set of rules, but it was a different set.
Looks at Zeus
Unitarian-Universalists don't have a problem at all with masturbation, and they encourage you to explore and accept your body. That sounds pretty masturbation positive to me!