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Recent content by TricksterWolf

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    Is premarital sex wrong?

    That's silly. "Punish" means "teach a lesson". Eternal "punishment" doesn't change someone's behavior, because there's no further opportunity for them to act. It sounds like you're saying that when bad things happen, it's God "punishing" people to "teach them" to change their ways. But God...
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    Is premarital sex wrong?

    If you can't pick and choose the laws in the OT, you're in a world of trouble. You should be allowing slavery, stoning your children for disobedience, and punishing people who practice crop rotation. For starters. Nobody in the entire world practices all of the laws in the OT. Trickster
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    throwing away-experimenting with fertilized eggs

    Someone with mental retardation is far from "a vegetable". Also, any mandatory sterilization would be based on IQ tests, which (for tests normed in America) largely favor sterilization of minorities and the poor. Historically, the deaf, blind, and the mentally ill were also sterilized...
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    Forcing your beliefs on others

    Not true. Speaking one's mind isn't intolerance, and you are not intolerant for speaking your mind. Enforcing laws that would shut someone up completely, or to prevent them from the right to engage in a voluntary contract with another party, is intolerant. Advocating such activity is also...
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    Age Old Debate: Right and Wrong

    People who do what you are doing are very likely to not be prejudiced toward others of different beliefs. I was mentored in graduate school by a man who was a world expert in studying prejudice and discrimination. There are surprisingly few correlates with prejudice. An interest in exploring...
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    For Gays, a Loud New Foe

    Ah, but I do know that. The fact that "wicked" has multiple meanings doesn't lessen the shock impact the word has and its association with "evil" and "cruel". Using words with morally corrupt connotations like "wicked" paints an inaccurate picture of the people you're discussing. Don't...
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    Tolerant or Respect

    And in the Bible, God tells the Jews to kill unbelievers, take their land, enslave their peoples, and rape the women. People choose what to focus on in religion, and what to explain away as unimportant. Some Muslims are violent, and others are peaceful. Some Christians are violent (look at...
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    When a person becomes a person (Abortion)

    It isn't a hypothesis; it can't be proven or disproven. :) It's just a qualification: the lines we draw are arbitrary, and are made to make us feel better about the world we live in and our decisions. Yet, "saying" does not create truth. All we are left with are labels. Likewise: A fetus...
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    Forcing your beliefs on others

    Lesbians can be conveniently ignored whenever a poster is ranting about gays. They're generally an afterthought. They don't fit any of the "sodomy" or "AIDS" or "short-term relationships" or "bad parent" myths, either; lesbian relationships are generally safer, saner, longer, less...
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    Forcing your beliefs on others

    You'll also be surprised to find there are a large number of gay couples who have sex but do not engage in sodomy. Straight people always seem to "know" what goes on in the bedroom of gays. Such colorful imaginations. :) Trickster
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    When a person becomes a person (Abortion)

    I touched it yesterday. I repped it, in fact. Your post was the most insightful and well-argued one on the entire forum. This, of course, is why it is ignored. It's too hard to argue against. Trickster
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    When a person becomes a person (Abortion)

    You misconstrue my argument. I don't draw the line anywhere. I'm arguing that any choice to draw a line between "disposable" and "baby" is an arbitrary one, and ethically unrealistic. Conception is a popular choice for such a line because it is a defining moment in the development of a child...
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    Is premarital sex wrong?

    I think the opposite is scary. :) People worry about letting people "do as they please", but guess what? That's already the way the Universe works! Each of us is free to do anything we want; and our neighbor is free to respond as well. I think when you let people do as they please, they...
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    What is your favorite non christian religion?

    I assumed so. My boyfriend looks cute in a dress and prefers being a girl online, but he's not a transsexual at all in real life. :) Trickster
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    Tolerant or Respect

    The psychologist in T.S. Eliot's "The Dinner Party" recognized: "Half of the evil in this world is caused by people caught up in the endless quest to think well of themselves." Trickster
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