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Yes, I do, because a Bronze Age book doesn't cloud my judgement. It's not the entire solution, but it will help. What is counter-productive is your Church campaigning against birth control in areas effected by severe poverty and over-population. Are you so ignorant as to make an absolute...

lib·er·ty (lbr-t) n. pl. lib·er·ties 1. a. The condition of being free from restriction or control. b. The right and power to act, believe, or express oneself in a manner of one's own choosing. c. The condition of being physically and legally free from confinement, servitude, or forced...

It's probably because the infallible bigoted despot that holds his leash says that same-sex marriage is bad, ergo, same-sex marriage is bad. See the logic?

He already said the inverse: Name Taken, while you incessantly repeat that heterosexual unions offer existence, (as if as soon as same sex marriage is offered, absolutely everybody is going gay, because it will be, like, 'in') you fail to realise that we are close to a population crisis. By...

It doesn't matter if a person is completely predisposed to homosexuality or not. It is the barricading of people from a social norm because of a life choice, which does not effect anybody but two consenting adults. Similar to a non-Christian theocracy declaring that there is one true God, and...

+1. Would you care responding to mine Name_Taken, or are you just going to ignore it? (And possibly this one too...)

No, not at all. Many children are indoctrinated (read: brainwashed), into half-believing their parents religious positions. What results are generations of people who say they are of a particular denomination, yet they have not read any of the positions of the denominations they belong to. I...

Wow, didn't see that he wanted a theocracy. Rather than this disgusting secular society (or half-secular at the moment) where everyones morals are so distorted... That way, Name_Taken, you could go back to just burning us heretics for pointing out simple fallacies in your holy book!

No, Name_Taken, the onus of proof lies on YOU, as you are the one trying to change societies idea of morality to better impress your magical sky daddy. We don't and shouldn't change our way of living to impress gods that may or may not exist. Why do Christians get preference in deciding whether...

Personal intolerance is a right. If you happen to run a business, then intolerance is no longer a right, it is then considered prejudice. Sin in whos eyes? The Church's? It's about time you realised (because you've been pulling that card the entire thread) that not everybody has your same idea...

Discrimination is not a right. Employees should not be turned away on the basis of who they have sex with at home, but solely on the basis of what they can bring to the Church as an employee. Being homosexual does not hinder them in performing the jobs that would be available to them at the...

Learn to spell/punctuate. Islam is a violent religion. So is Christianity. The fact is, that regardless of whether the Koran interpreted one way is peaceful, Muslims use the Koran and its teachings to instill an attitude of hatred in young men, sometimes women, towards Western cultures...

You judge people from the current 'status quo' of morality in society. I think with moral relativism, it makes perfect sense to judge whether a given act is good or bad, by societies current standards. While yes, you can go back in the past and start judging people according to your era's...

The problem with that, is he is assuming there is a moral law. Morality is no law. Morality is merely a general reflection of societies views at the present time. To say morality is a constant is to deny the fact that moral attitudes DO change. And they do. The Bible, apparently the word of God...

Many people are also gay and/or support gays right to marry. And the proportion of the population who holds such views is entitled to some extent to see this translated into law. What rights are you talking about? Humans did not have a set of universally recognised rights before human rights...

No, but they try to take credit for them...

+1. If you want to use the Bible, or God for that matter, to try and argue against the pro-choice movement that covers homosexuality, euthanasia and abortion, then the onus is on YOU to provide proof or substantial evidence that this God exists. We are a secular society, and we should not be...

This is what I'm saying Bodhamilla - you've taken a lot of religions and bunched them together, stripped them down to the bare bones (i.e. heaven and hell), and then tried to find motivations for their respective deities creation of the universe. While I see your point in how it's often really...

I'm sorry Bodhimilla, but you do sound VERY bitter in tone. You give me the very unfortunate impression, that not only have you not read some of the great books on this EXACT topic, but you don't want to. I suppose since you've seen some TV interviews with Dawkins and evangelists, you know all...

I absolutely agree, although I don't think overlap is the best word, because it implies ALL of religion. The problem is science, and human discovery, will probably never be able to disprove the deistic concept, and religious nutjobs will always jump in and say, we cannot disprove it, ergo, god...