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    Do you really care about teens' lives?

    It does, actually. There are families who would become homeless and/or have their younger children taken away if their teens couldn't contribute to the functioning and finances of the household, which often requires driving. Unless you live your life without ever getting into a motor vehicle...
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    Can a Christian support pro-choice? Poll

    The thing is, if you apply this logic to every issue of life, you're left with very few Christians, at least in the United States. Most everyone is "pro-life" in one way or another, but not across the board.
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    Your views on parental chastening and discipline

    Oh, make no mistake, I can see it. I'm just disagreeing with your apparent habit of turning those suspicions into assumptions and pushing every unrelated statement into one of two political boxes. I personally try to do my best not to focus on that. I don't see what can be gained by having such...
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    Ex-Christians masquerading as Christians on CF

    There are certainly people who I hope are trolling, but I know that there are all sorts in the world, so no, it's rare that I actually draw that conclusion.
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    Your views on parental chastening and discipline

    I don't see anything about politics. I'm not sure what you're commenting on, unless this was just meant to be a general observation of public discourse.
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    Your views on parental chastening and discipline

    I was actually thinking that about your own views. I can't fathom how someone could look at all the progress humanity has made in every single aspect of life, or even just all the goals we've met and knowledge we've gained in your lifetime, and think that society is going down the drain because...
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    Your views on parental chastening and discipline

    So what you're saying is that you want people to be spanked to be conditioned into having the same view of morality and politics as yourself? Setting aside the fact that many parents disagree with you and would use spanking to teach the opposite, were they to spank. Not to mention the same...
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    Your views on parental chastening and discipline

    I'm not aware of the existence of this decline, and you haven't given any sources. That's what I was asking for. Some sort of explanation so I can understand the reasoning behind an alternate viewpoint. Not an expanded statement of your opinion. It was a genuine question.
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    Your views on parental chastening and discipline

    Oh. I suppose I don't understand what you mean, then. I don't see the basis for what you're saying. What are your sources for this? Most of the statistics that I'm familiar with are highly encouraging, the exception being those that can be attributed to the economy and failed policy.
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    Your views on parental chastening and discipline

    I'm not sure what you mean here. Could you describe that in psychological terms? Are you referring to the way in which the shock of a blunt impact can potentially help someone who is suffering from a fit of hysterics?
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    Is atheism the World religion?

    And you just said that evolution is false and a lie. So do you really want to go there? Encouraging people to use one thing a person says to discredit everything they say?
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    Meeting a lot of single women on some kind of psych med

    Please don't. Just break up with the person if you feel tempted to start saying things like "You just need to pray harder" and "You're sinning by giving in to it," or to pretend that you know more about their diagnosis and treatment plan than they do. That's cruel, dangerous, and incorrect.
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    Meeting a lot of single women on some kind of psych med

    No one is morally obligated to date people who are facing certain challenges, but as you've discovered, your options are going to be fairly limited if you decide that this is a deal-breaker for you. I don't have the stats on hand, but I recall that the majority of Americans now face some form of...
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    The benefits of platonic relationships

    I'd be curious to know what people that person is thinking of. As far as I know, the stats show that people in countries such as the U.S. and UK are waiting longer than ever, and sometimes don't go for that legal status at all. Marriage is no longer a sure step in a relationship. And the divorce...
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    Gender roles and money

    Goodness, I hope no boy over the age of 12 thinks that way. That would signal an alarming lack of personal responsibility and a sense of entitlement that really should have disappeared during childhood development. Teach your children that the moral way to get ahead in life is not by putting...
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    Christianity in old television

    I haven't seen all of these, but do they really mention and promote Christianity all that often? I'm especially wondering about Star Trek...
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    Thoughts on feminism?

    Sure. There are going to be people in both groups who say that you're not a true Christian or a true feminist, but that's the case for every feminist and every Christian, even if a person is only one or the other. For pretty much every single belief, there is someone out there who would say...
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    Hollywood's gods

    I love a good reminder of why I favor quantitative data with properly defined variables. None of this it feeeeelllss like I'm right...