"She asks, "How long shall men die?" Jesus answers, "As long as you women bear children". Writers like Julius Cassianus take this as an implicit injunction to defeat death by ceasing from procreation. Clement resorts to allegorical explanation. By "as long as women bear children" the Lord meant "as long as desires are active"."
— Antinatalism

January 1, 1970

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Description: the dialogue of Jesus Christ with Salome from Greek Gospel of the Egyptians. (The further part of the dialogue: Salome: "I have done well, then, in not bearing children?" Jesus: "Every plant eat thou, but that which hath bitterness eat not. I have come to destroy the works of the female.")