Dear Richie

Have you been yanking our collective chains? You naughty boy.

When all is said and all is done, most threads devolve into a form of anarchy. I guess this is where we are now.

I think we have thoroughly thrashed why gay marriage is good for straight women, for the same reasons that it is good indigenous Australians were granted the vote in 1967, slavery is illegal, children are no longer sent to work in coal mines and many other infringements of the well-being and respect of all members of the human race have (and continue to be) eradicated as we move to a more equitable and just society.

No Severin, I am trying to get you to use your brain for more than keeping your ears apart. Hot can give to cold but cold has to plug into power to get hot. The greater always blesses the lesser. In the old testament we had the law and the paradyme of good and evil. In the new testament Jesus introduced a new paradyme (grace and truth) but to get it, you have to change your mind. The old paradyme always fails because it is man made. The new works because the greater blesses the lesser for God "IS" the power source.
Regards Richie10

Dear Richie

Bearing in mind what R0bert had to say about "number 2's, you wanna be sure your god is "on the job" 24/7 as far as keeping things from floating into space is concerned.

As for using my brain, I do it very well, very consistently and all the time - which cannot be said of religious fundys whose thinking starts with the OT and ends with the NT.

The new paradigm is man-made, too. A compilation of the most favoured stories at the time; stories favoured because the were written to fulfil the OT prophecies.