St Onan's

St Onan's is a thriving and well-subscribed theological college in the town of Ham-on-Rye. The name has, er, associations in some phases of the multiverse (see below). Which leads to the interesting question of what sort of theology this singular seminary teaches, and how on the Discworld Onan got his sainthood. Jackson Fieldfair, a student who is now Bishop of Quirm, is said to have taken his mallet in both hands and given the ball a gentle tap... hold on, that's the origin of crockett...

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in the Bible, Onan is struck dead by the merciful LORD for "spilling his seed on the ground", an action taken by generations of theological commentators to be masturbation. (A sympathetic and open-minded reading of the source text might suggest that the real offence is Onan's use of the withdrawal method as contraception.) However, the "sin of Onan" is forever associated with masturbation.