Karzkin

inb4 Goodwin's Law: the nazis made a link between cigarettes and lung cancer, had laws against smoking in public, promoted health education, etc. That doesn't make fascism or the nazis ...

To the first question: the latter. To the second: the former. Read Christopher Hitchens' book God is not great for more information. In relation to this thread though, there will ...

I think we should avoid the attitude of psychological difference = damage. Yes, gender neutral kids or kids who are raised without regard to gender might be different to kids ...

Now why would we agree to that? Plenty of us here (and other smart people) think that's true.

Again, that's a problem with jerks who think it's ok to make fun of how someone dresses, and other jerks who struggle to keep it in their pants. Not a ...

If the boys can't control themselves that's a problem with the boys, not the girls. If boys are so easily distracted maybe they should just stay inside until they're 30 ...

My bad, I didn't know that. That raises some pretty troubling questions about the Irish government, but that's a story for another thread.

A whole lot of things about church doctrine that make no sense? Who would have seen that coming? So I think that the Pope is a powerful leader of a ...

Stells, it wasn't until 1870 that the doctrine of papal infallibility was made official, before that it was essentially a rule of thumb. But that raises more questions. Papal infallibility ...

I'm not sure punishments should be harsher. By and large, the crimes of underage drinking/smoking/etc. are victimless (apart from the perpetrator obviously). Like a lot of social problems the solution

Hang on, we're looking to the bible for examples of good parenting? For serious? Abraham, Lot, Jephthah, Saul, and even god all set pretty bad examples.

I don't know about all you guys but it's pretty damn easy to change your name in Australia. Fill out one 2-page form, pay $40, done. No sweat.

I'm not nor ever have been a catholic, so I guess I'm not that hip to this topic, but from some quick research I can answer the first question. From ...

A cursory scroll through your Facebook feeds over the last few days would probably have shown you this or something similar. While it's great and all, what I want to ...

I dunno, it's not that hard to make people call you your preferred name if you're persistent and people are respectful of your choice. I have a friend whose name ...