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14. They all say no, because they're apologists. It's their job.
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 08:54 PM
Dec 2014

And there are relatively few of them, compared to the number who are asking.

And why are so many asking? Because either they believe it, or they were told it by someone who did. (Are apologists trolling their own questions?) I have heard enough street preachers tell a crowd "you're all a product of sin!" to not get the message. I only need a couple to establish my point. (Remember "There are those...." All I need is a few, who think all sex is sinful, to establish my point. You are claiming a zero, save for a few Shakers.)

Religions, as you might have noticed, have no aversion to having it both ways. They want you to multiply, and they take credit for that, as if they invented it. But they still want to heap on the guilt for your expression of natural urges. When, do you think, "original sin" is inherited? What act initiates it?

Since the supreme being neither procreates nor defecates, I expect that he/she would be pretty disgusted with the whole thing. I, OTOH, find it rather wholesome.

--imm


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