Unlimited Sexual License: The Atheist Idea Of Freedom
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[snip] Can anything bring us to our senses? The evangelical Christians present some hope. Although their numbers are relatively modest, their religion is solid and their high vision of America conforms with what the earliest settlers and the Founding Fathers had in mind.
Funny, that, seeing that many of the FF were openly contemptuous wrt Christianity. — "Christians, it is needless to say, utterly detest each other. They slander each other constantly with the vilest forms of abuse and cannot come to any sort of agreement in their teachings. Each sect brands its own, fills the head of its own with deceitful nonsense, and makes perfect little pigs of those it wins over to its side." – Celsus On the True Doctrine, translated by R. Joseph Hoffman, Oxford University Press, 1987 (random sig, produced by SigChanger) rukbat at verizon dot net
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Free At Last Thomas C. Reeves Mr. Reeves is the author of A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy. His latest book is America’s Bishop: The Life and Times of Fulton J. Sheen (Encounter, 2001). He’s a Senior Fellow of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. Sunday, August 29, 2004
When I married my present wife, I received a limited sexual license. Now it seems to have expired. — Freedom of thought entails no "Intellectual Property".
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I guess this explains why Catholic priests have a rate of HIV infection three times higher than the general public in the US.
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[snip] Can anything bring us to our senses? The evangelical Christians present some hope. Although their numbers are relatively modest, their religion is solid and their high vision of America conforms with what the earliest settlers and the Founding Fathers had in mind.
Hmm. The out of wedlock pregnancy rate was not insignificant among our early settlers. But, setting that aside for the moment; the answer is ‘yes’. Evangelical Christians can do something to counter this trend. Don’t have sex. In fact, in order to make up for the increasing amount of sex that the rest of us are having, don’t even have it within the institution of marriage. In the final analysis, it’ll all average out just fine. — "Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes." (If you can read this, you’re overeducated.)
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@stopspam.net: You need a *license* to have sex??? When did this law pass?
Just give the control freaks in the GOP time – pretty soon you will need their approval to do ANYTHING. Mitchell Holman "There ought to be limits to freedom." George Bush, while trying to shut down a website doing a parody of him, 1999.
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You need a *license* to have sex??? When did this law pass?
Duh! How else would the Government be able to tax it? — "By this logic, teaching anti-discrimination against ethnic minorities is going to turn white people black." –OrangeSFO on rec.gambling.poker
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You need a *license* to have sex??? When did this law pass?
Mines expired from lack of use! :(
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Free At Last Thomas C. Reeves Mr. Reeves is the author of A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy. His latest book is America’s Bishop: The Life and Times of Fulton J. Sheen (Encounter, 2001). He’s a Senior Fellow of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. Sunday, August 29, 2004 In Great Britain, the rates of sexually transmitted infections rose again last year. The number of infections—708,083—was 4% higher than in 2002. This data does not include HIV infections, also soaring in number. Throughout Europe, since the mid-1990s, sexually transmitted diseases have been on the rise. The data, it seems clear, reflect something that goes beyond medicine. The churches in Europe are largely dead, and most intellectuals, politicians, and judges are militant secularists. Free at last from almost all moral restrictions, the majority of Europeans are doing as they please. And this inevitably means casual sex. The message most often encountered in modern life in the West is sexual license. The media, which dominate our lives, are the major transmitters of this call for the abandonment of all traditional moral strictures and the plunge into hedonism and narcissism. The Left’s response to sexual disease: Use condoms. Have your fun but do it responsibly. The Right’s response: Don’t do it. That’s a message very few want to hear any more. "Why not?" is the question without an appealing answer in our time. While the United States remains the most Christian nation in the West, it too is succumbing to the siren call. Our television commercials, for example, have sent our young people into bars to meet one another for the purpose of sex.
How dare they? Our teachers and professors snicker at "outdated" moral teaching and ban Christian study and prayer. Judges have seen to it that we can have sex education in the schools but not religious instruction, flavored condoms but not the New Testament.
That’s because the New Testament only comes in Original flavor, not grape. The Pfizer company runs vulgar full-page newspaper and television ads urging men of all ages to buy Viagra, wear condoms, and have fun, presumably with as many women (or men) as possible.
Have fun? What’s the world coming to? Living together without marriage is now routine in this country. And so is having children out of wedlock. Why not? We are free at last. The porn industry makes more than $15 billion a year—more than major league, football, baseball, and basketball combined. Americans spend about half a billion dollars each year on X-rated pay-for-view movies alone, and the profits are soaring. Any child can obtain pornography by pressing a few keys on a computer. It is modern and "cool" to indulge in everything sexual. The devastating impact of this recklessness on the individual’s personal happiness and marriage, not to mention the soul and the eternal consequences of sin, goes largely unheeded in elite circles.
Damn, those elitists are flushing America down the tubes. The Left, in its fury to honor all sexual activity and wreck the traditional family, is brimming over with self-confidence these days. All that remains to take care of are a few pockets of Red State "right-wing extremists." Victory in the presidential election should carry the day, as it will lead to a "progressive" Supreme Court eager to knock out the last barriers to true individual freedom.
Those last barriers are a bitch! Can anything bring us to our senses?
Probably. The evangelical Christians present some hope. Although their numbers are relatively modest, their religion is solid and their high vision of America conforms with what the earliest settlers and the Founding Fathers had in mind. The Catholic Church, with its 65 million members, could be a major force for moral renewal, but its top clergy are unwilling, for a variety of reasons, to use their authority. The Republican Party could do much to alter the slide into decadence if it could concentrate more on its moral proclamations and less on cheap labor and tax advantages for the wealthy. Inspired leaders of the resistance are in short supply everywhere.
Raise the salary. Unless we in the West can find ways to come out of our moral stupor, we face great troubles ahead. After Americans have aborted, say, 100 million babies, and the divorce rate is 85%, and the prisons and mental hospitals are overflowing, and AIDS and related diseases have ravaged our population, what will we have to offer ourselves or the rest of the world beyond decay? Tooth decay. When we face our zealous enemies on the battlefield, we will invite them to an orgy. And we will be helpless. Ignorance of history always has consequences.
Hey dudes, orgy over this way! Rat-a-tat-tat. Kaboom! — Freedom of thought entails no "Intellectual Property".
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You need a *license* to have sex??? When did this law pass? — MarkA (still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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You need a *license* to have sex??? When did this law pass?
Send me USD 50, and you’ll get all the documentation for a restricted licence. GBP 750 for an unrestricted licence. I must however point out that the biometric measures and photographs required may have a certain resale value which you may be able to offset against the initial cost. — "Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You." – Attrib: Pauline Reage. Inexpensive VHS & other video to CD/DVD conversion? See: <http://www.Video2CD.com. 35.00 gets your video on DVD. all posts to this email address are automatically deleted without being read. ** atheist poster child #1 ** #442.
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While the United States remains the most Christian nation in the West, it too is succumbing to the siren call. Our television commercials, for example, have sent our young people into bars to meet one another for the purpose of sex. Our teachers and professors snicker at "outdated" moral teaching and ban Christian study and prayer. Judges have seen to it that we can have sex education in the schools but not religious instruction, flavored condoms but not the New Testament. The Pfizer company runs vulgar full-page newspaper and television ads urging men of all ages to buy Viagra, wear condoms, and have fun, presumably with as many women (or men) as possible.
You say that like it’s a bad thing. Must suck to be you.
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Free At Last Thomas C. Reeves
Piss off Spammer, and pander your lies to someone that will believe your shit. <plonk — -Donald in Austin AA #2104 Apatriot #22 Atheist FF/EMT ….and ordained minister Stork pin recipient: May 1, 2003 -Madelyn
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Free At Last Thomas C. Reeves Mr. Reeves is the author of A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy. His latest book is America’s Bishop: The Life and Times of Fulton J. Sheen (Encounter, 2001). He’s a Senior Fellow of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. Sunday, August 29, 2004 In Great Britain, the rates of sexually transmitted infections rose again last year. The number of infections
