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Omnivorous Member  Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 7.5 |
But these other religions get all the same support and tax breaks and rights as Christianity. I'm just surprised there is no objection to this. Excellent point. One also wonders why the throng is not at the gate to dissolve divorce courts--those petitioners are seeking to make the rest of us (the State) subsidize an activity rejected by many (at least in theory  ). Perhaps these are among the "other sins...that are also being supported by the nation that shouldn't be" that Faith mentions. God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, ”Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.’ --Ann Coulter, Fox-TV: Hannity & Colmes, 20 Jun 01 Save lives! Click here!Join the World Community Grid with Team EvC! ---------------------------------------
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 7.5 |
Faith writes: A "few millennia" is three or four wouldn't you say? Well the planet goes back six, and marriage as well -- back to Eden Adam and Eve got married?!  Did they have a church wedding or a civil ceremony? Did they need permission from the government?
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 7.5 |
I said that marriage is done in different ways, by different customs in different places. Okay. But I'm genuinely curious--what form did Adam & Eve's marriage take? Were they made married at the moment of Eve's creation, at their expulsion from the Garden, or somewhere in between, say, rolling in the holy clover? I had always assumed they were sexually innocent (i.e., inactive) in the Garden (though Milton seems to disagree) since they didn't even know they were naked. If you don't mind my asking, Faith, what's your marriage history? To paraphrase Father Sarducci on the Pope, do you want to make-a the rules when you don't play-a the game?
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 7.5 |
Thanks for the thoughts on Edenic marriage. It's difficult to know what a believer will declare to be symbolic, you see.
Faith writes: Just this morning, on the absolute morality thread, recognizing anew the rampant subjectivism in our world these days, I made a decision to completely ignore all personal questions Gee, I must be physic! What amazing timing! Still fair enough, I suppose--except that your supporting arguments are generally rooted in your subjective experience of a personal God.
It's nothing but a sanctified ad hominem. If you can't make your point on the argument itself it can't be made. Oh, I think I can make my points without ad hominem fallacies, m'lady--do you not? (SANCTIFY MY FALLACY! may soon appear on a bumper sticker near you...) Hypocrisy, along with other self-indulgences, hides best among abstract arguments that eschew personal testimony and example. We weren't really having a debate here, but I think you've answered my question well enough. God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, ”Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.’ --Ann Coulter, Fox-TV: Hannity & Colmes, 20 Jun 01 Save lives! Click here!Join the World Community Grid with Team EvC! ---------------------------------------
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