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VVV Being a former angel, the Devil doesn't believe in God, he knows he exists. James 2:19 (NIV) You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe ...

Ok before we start throwing the terms "sexist" around, can we at least work through why we hold it to be such negative term. It's because it's unjustified prejudice. Why ...

Karz Ok Rubric, so who decides which relationships are acceptable/privileged, and on what grounds? I think the system is often reactive, which is to say unintentional. We can try to ...

Wherethewindgoes Indeed. Does the fact that it can be interpreted (/picked through) in many ways/for one's own interest or preconceived notions take away its value as instructions on how to ...

Ok, I understand a bit better now. So it's a question of which relationships are socially acceptable and which are not? Essentially, yes. It's also a little more than that. ...

Enema, always a pleasure. As in; "People are complicated", there the solution that I proposed is naive. Your solution is essentially "get rid of religion". I'm sorry, but this seems ...

Hang on Rubric, how would a polygamous or same sex marriage have any effect on monogamous heterosexual marriages, even if they are legally the same thing with all the same ...

Why should we care when it doesn't affect us. There is no zero sum game. Those who choose to dwell in ignorance of gross violaions of human rights, or who ...

Really? You don't know how the Israelis kicked out the Palestinians out of their land? Rape, murder, blackmail, bribery, and they even forced them to sell their land! I dispute ...

After years of humiliation and acts of outright indignity, one man comes forwards and says "Let's split down the house in two." Just to clarify, which pre-1948 acts of outright ...

Isn't that pretty much what they did in 1948?

And as to it changing the preciousness of marriage. Nooooo. Your marriage is worth bugger all if it is so drastically altered by other people's relationships. Maybe people make less ...

Either make it a united country, or divide it by states, without taking in concern the religious inclinations that haunt each location to be valuable, for absolutely nonsensical reasons. I ...

First of all I think that for the heterosexual football player to automatically assume that the gay man is attracted to him is rather egotistical No, because there's no automatic ...

It's an unorthodox definition, but I think "proud" is often used as an antonym for "ashamed" or "embarrassed". Thus, as a caucasian, I might identify myself as such, and proudly, ...