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For instance, in China it is a common practice to drown infant girls. Boys are the preferred children. Why is this wrong?

Believe it or not, HV, even we atheists agree with you christians that yes, drowning newborn girls is wrong. We are all adults and can, believe it or not, discern right from wrong with out the bible telling us so. (then again, the bible tells me this: Deuteronomy 21:18-21 - "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son.... bring him unto the elders of his city.... And all the men of the city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you..."And this, "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." - Psalm 137:9 But that's "out of context," of course.)

Christians have that innate ability to pick and choose like none other (well, and the Islamic terrorists that miss that part in the Qu'ran about how killing innocents is pretty much the worst thing one can do.

"Believe it or not, HV, even we atheists agree with you christians that yes, drowning newborn girls is wrong."

Yeah, and you think it's wrong because you grew up in a Christian country. But if you were living in China you wouldn't. Or the Muslim world.

Or maybe you missed that story recently out of the middle east where two brothers strangled their 16-year old sister with a garden hose after she had an out-of-wedlock affair with an older man. The brothers got three months in prison, each.