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Recent content by StartToday

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    Abortion is wrong!

    That's where I stopped reading. :D
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    Mothers Spiritually Active; Fathers Lag Behind

    I find this to be generally true. As a child, none of my male adult relatives (father, grandfather, uncles) went to church, or really spoke about god at all. So I always felt like religious belief was a feminine thing. What does Mary Magdalene have to do with this, though? She's the reason...
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    Sanctity of Life

    No... it shouldn't be. Because then there would be a monopoly. Being the only company on the market with super kidneys, the company with the patent would be able to charge outrageous prices. Let's say that there is a lab out there somewhere where a group of biochemists want to make these super...
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    Sanctity of Life

    It used to be illegal for the US patent department to grant a patent to anything that is alive. Using the argument that micro organisms look more like chemicals than like animals, GE patented its own altered microorganisms. And now patents are being passed on lab mice and whatnot.
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    Sanctity of Life

    Living things can currently be patented. Today it's mirco organisms. But soon it will be modified DNA. And then small things, like insects. Then genetically modified brands of animals, for use in food industries. And sooner or later they will get past the law banning the patent of human beings...
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    If Marriage is for Babies, Then Have Them!

    Because there is no separation of church and state. There is no reason, aside from "cause the Bible says so", that gay marriage should be illegal. If Christians enforce the law against gay marriage because that's what their religion calls for, then Mormons should be able to have 12 wives...
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    Questions About the Old Testament

    So... any of those people who disobeyed him were forced (cursed) to eat their children? ... Okay. Well. Okay then. I don't know what to say about all this.
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    Questions About the Old Testament

    Okay, so I came across these two quotes: "And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the lord thy god hath given thee." Deuteronomy 28:53 "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." Psalm 137:9...
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    Capitalism- Good or Bad?

    A just wage would be one where the people making the product to be sold are not being factored in as part of the costs of production. If they are, they must be paid a small wage so that the retail price (which is a multiple of the total cost of production) will make a profit for the owner. If...
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    John Kerry, Unplugged

    I heard just the opposite on the news the other day (CNN- I suppose that's "liberal media"). Gas emissions went UP during Bush's first term. The 18% reduction is based on the amount that they assume will be in the air in 2012, not 18% less of today's greenhouse gases. This always happens- when...
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    Capitalism- Good or Bad?

    By capitalise I mean the lower and middle classes generally hold positions which require much more physical labor or concentration on mundane tasks, and they should be paid more than they are. The man who owns the machines at the factory deserves money, sure. But does he deserve so much that the...
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    Capitalism- Good or Bad?

    Do you think capitalism is the best available economic system (as in it is the fairest, most productive, etc?). If another system came along that didn't capitalise on the lower and middle classes, would you support it? I am asking because of a conversation I recently had with a friend who...
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    Teaching kids about hell?

    Great idea robinsegg- that's exactly how I would do it if I were so inclined as to raise any kids I might have religiously.
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    What Isn't Okay Sexually?

    Incest is morally wrong (at least it is to me), but if god created Adam, and then Eve, and they populated the earth... that means that their children married each other and had inbred children. So if that is okay in the bible, why do christians follow the secular belief that it is wrong?
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    Teaching kids about hell?

    It's child abuse, but it's a parent's right to use religion to scare the mess out of their kids. Hell is why I clung to belief, and its why I don't believe now- because it seems like hell is just a way to get people to ignore all of the other gaping holes in Christianity, and just accept it. I...