Recent content by feral

I'm a big fan of Harry Potter and have been for a very long time. I respect Daniel Radcliffe for "coming out" atheist and I agree with him about Richard Dawkins - I watch anything he does, too. But it doesn't affect whether or not I'd see the new HP movie. I'd see it if he had announced he was a...

I think American children are given a really weird outlook on sex, like you can't talk about the practical issues involved in sexual relationships but artificial titillation is available and encouraged 24/7, and you wouldn't objectively discuss birth control or anatomy but you can make lots of...

If you're 18+ and foolish enough to use snakes as some kind of test of faith then yes, by all means, handle snakes - though of course I would expect the church to sign some kind of contract in advance offering full payment of any medical bills accrued before they taught or encouraged the...

As long as co-ed living arrangements remain optional, and no one is forced to live with someone of the opposite sex, I don't see a problem with that. Students over the age of 18 can easily share an off-campus apartment; if the school wants to attract students to its own housing, it needs to be...

Nice to see the website getting some publicity. I really do find all the anti-HP hype amusing. I worked at a bookstore when books 1 and 2 were out. There were extremely popular and I dismissed them as overly mass market, and didn't bother to read them figuring they were just children's books...

The thing that frustrates me about so many of these complaints is that the very people who are complaining about being marginalized due to race are doing everything in their power to self-segregate, to set themselves apart, to be seen first and foremost by "race" and judged primarily for the...

I think one of the main reasons something like "white pride" has been frowned on is because, in addition to its usage in things like the KKK and Hitler's notion of Aryan goodness, there is no "white" anything. There is no commonality between those lumped together as "white". What have the French...

Seizing land in order to create a memorial is a really ridiculous concept. I can't see how that would have been beneficial to anybody. And, flight 93, it's sad what happened and I can understand the families wanting to memorialize their dead, but I'm getting sick of the way the term "hero" is...

I don't think we are at war with Muslim extremists. People, I have no problem with. It's the ideas and worldviews that I disagree with. As to who started it, let's leave that concept to the five year old's having slapping wars in the backseat of mom's car, yeah? I've probably read half. I do...

That is really disgusting. Still, I'm not so sure the attitude of giving the "punk" what he "deserves" is the right response. A kid who steals $10 in candy from a convenience store or who spray paints the neighbour's garage is a punk who deserves a severe reprimand, maybe fines or some volunteer...

Yet another reason to stay away from conservative churches. If the message doesn't bore you to death, the congregation is packing heat. :P

If by "sexual perversion" you refer to homosexuality, then yes, I do consider that perfectly healthy and normal. I don't happen to engage in it myself, but I do not believe consensual sex to be perverse. The APA does not consider it a perversion or mental disorder - what is your basis for doing...

I had to put my cat Ithaca down in January, after having her for ten years. I still cry about her, at least every week - it's never entered my mind that she's of lesser importance to me than the human beings I know as friends or family. It sounds funny, but I miss her more than the people I know...

In the six years that I've participated on this forum, I have seen a lot of stories come in from WND. Some are decidedly slanted in order to make it appear that persecution of Christians is occurring in a country with a Christian majority. I've learned that as a source they consistently slant...

I'm not sure how this perspective was attained. Homosexuality doesn't have anything to do with your religion. Homosexuality's main impact is on the lgbt community and their friends and loved ones. If Christian people are trying to prohibit people from leading their lives and making independent...