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View Poll Results: should religious people force their values of morality on the Olympics? | |
Olympics and virginity.
|     | 1 | 2.70% | |
Olympics and chastity.
|    | 0 | 0% | |
Olympics and abstinence.
|    | 0 | 0% | |
Olympics and Monogamy.
|    | 0 | 0% | |
all of the above.
|    | 3 | 8.11% | |
don't force values of morality on the Olympics.
|    | 33 | 89.19% |
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4th August 2012, 07:50 PM
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dir="ltr"> With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things and evil people to do good things, that takes religion. |
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So not passing out free condoms would be considered imposing Christian morality? I don't use condems, but if I did I wouldn't be getting them for free. I would have to pay for them. Is morality being forced on me? Or take the opposite scenario. The athletes are not getting free Bibles. Is a materialistic, atheistic philosophy being forced on them?
Why? Are they being forced to use the condoms?
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The Dragon is reborn. Originally Posted by Robert Jordan The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come to pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
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Ahhh...And my weakness is revealed. At the risk of having to turn in my fantasy nerd credentials I have to admit that I cannot stand LotR. Tolkien's writing style is like chewing foil. I can respect him for effectively starting the genre I love, but others have worked within it so much better.
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9th August 2012, 08:57 AM
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Reps: 19,065,056,389,069,520 (power: 19,065,056,389,076) | | Originally Posted by spartacus1984 it is the duty of all good people to impose their will on the wicked. because  religious people shouldn't be allowed to force their values on young people at the Olympics.
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Reps: 579,898,448,780,102,144 (power: 579,898,448,780,134) | | Originally Posted by IzzyPop Ahhh...And my weakness is revealed. At the risk of having to turn in my fantasy nerd credentials I have to admit that I cannot stand LotR. Tolkien's writing style is like chewing foil.
The quote in question is from the movie version of LOTR, not the novel.  eudaimonia,
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And you will almost never hear me utter these words, but imo, the movies were far better than the books in this case. I'm like Izzy, Tolkien's writing is.. ugh.
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To each his own. I personally enjoy Tolkien's writing style, and I happen to like the Peter Jackson films as well. eudaimonia,
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Reps: 19,065,056,389,069,520 (power: 19,065,056,389,076) | | Originally Posted by spartacus1984 why shouldn't good people impose their will on the wicked? i don't think that virginity is really important. and
i don't feel that virginity is really important. and
i don't see that virginity is really important. and i don't believe that virginity is really important. because virginity doesn't sound really important to me. that is why religious people shouldn't be allowed to force their values on young people at the Olympics?
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