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Exactly, sex forms a bond between two people as well as possible conception. It's no more immoral to practise abstinence and forgo the bonding part of sex than to use contraception to stop the conceptive part. As Belk has said, biology has nothing to do with morality. The biological purpose of...

As Beechwell has said, a frontal lobotomy doesn't turn someone into a complete nonresponsive vegetable. And I think deliberately causing someone to become completely brain dead is pretty much as bad as murder. And a sperm and an egg can become a newly-fertilized foetus, which can become a two...

There is also a line of thought that beautiful people develop a sense of entitlement, which makes them hard to deal with. The craziest line of thought is this far-out theory that every person is an individual, and that what a person looks like isn't necessarily a reliable indicator of what their...

As long as they employ that bell-end Delingpole, they are. A quick browse through this list of tripe makes my blood boil: James Delingpole – Telegraph Blogs What a self-reighteous, arrogant prat! And have you ever read his "365 ways to drive a liberal crazy"? Possibly the worst book I...

It's not the heart that makes someone human, it's the brain and the rest of the nervous system. Without them, a foetus isn't a person, it's just something with the potential to become a person. If someone was so severaly brain damaged that they had the cognitive function of an 8-week foetus, I...

Although you couldn't ask a lot of foetuses if they wanted to be aborted, because before the second trimester, they have the nervous system of a turnip.

God Hates Shrimp Unnatural!

Human beings are animals. Elephants are big animals, tigers are stripey animals, we're intelligent animals.

Of course, but it should generally be more of a "filter", as you say. Someone who just goes for physical attraction at the expense of any personality traits will probably not have any long-lasting healthy relationships. It would be a pretty ugly girl who couldn't be more than redeemed by having...

But why would an all-knowing and perfect God not have just instigated the perfect moral laws from the beginning? Which set of laws is the perfectly moral one? And why would God ever give mankind a set of laws that weren't moral, and then change it at a later date? It's easy to make any theory...

Well, looks like that's me out!

What we always seemed to notice was that girls did a lot better in subjects where you had to "learn things off", and were a lot more comfortable with subjects where you could do this, and the main component of doing well was to work very hard at tedious tasks. Guys seemed to do better, and...

I don't think anyone who prays sincerely can be counted an atheist any longer. Although I think the whole concept of prayer is a little silly, given some peoples' inteerpretation of God. They say that if we're suffering, it's God's plan, and God wouldn't inflict any suffering unless it was...

Indians are not Arabs. India doesn't even border Arab territory. And you can't help who you're attracted to, but I would be very surprised if anyone, especially a man, was completely unattracted to every member of every race apart from his own. Anyone who says that is probably racist in some...

Taxes are in place for the good of society, just like the laws against murder, theft, rape, and arson. Just because you don't personally agree with them doesn't mean they constitute slavery.

The science in both Expelled and AIG is complete muck, and relies on logical fallacies and personal attacks, the wikipedia page has an extensive list of things wrong with Expelled, in particular. Also, where does the issue of Cain marrying his sister leave those who believe in moral absolutes?

I do, but apparently those people who say it's taking conception out of God's hands don't.

In before me! This is the same God who supposedly covered the entire surface of the earth with water, I think he'd probably be able to break a bit of rubber if he wanted to.

You're making a baseless assertion here. I could say that abstinence is immoral because a fundamental purpose of sex is to form a closer bond between two lovers. Heck, I could say that abstinence is immoral because sex is amazing, and a fundamental purpose of humans is to have a good time. You...

Oh, dad, you silly man!