Wow, Kosta, concise and to the point, as always. Amazing rebuttals.
If there’s anything to add, give me a ping.
YHAOS’ earlier lengthy post about how one particular religion is supposedly the only one that allowed humans to progress is basically and thoroughly debunked by the reality that other areas of the world following that religion for a longer period than Europe hasn’t experienced the same progress). Additionally, if countries like Japan can progress without adopting the religion, then it implies that progress is contingent upon methods more than beliefs.
If there’s anything specific to discuss, let me know. The threads are long and I was (and somewhat still am) tied up with an abnormally tedious workload.
The teaching that matrimony is a sacrament gives to a religious clergy the power to judge the lawfulness of marriages and power of ecclesiastical censure for divorce.
The government of men's external actions by religion, pretending the change of nature in their consecrations cannot be esteemed a work extraordinary, it is no other than a conjuration or incantation, whereby they would have men to believe an alteration of nature that is contrary to the testimony of sight and of all the rest of the senses.
The idea "thou shalt marry and be given in marriage" is corrupt and degenerate, which is an impossible immortality of a kind, but not of the persons of men.
Ecclesiastics would have men believe they are not worthy to be counted amongst them that shall obtain the next world, or absolute resurrection from the dead, as inmates of the world; and to the end only to receive condign punishment for their contumacy of monogamy as opposed to the freedom of the polygamy found in nature.
Dawkins and his ilk ignore the greater premise and scientific fact that mammals can only evolve heterosexually.
And whether either of the philosophical combatants like it or not, this idea is supported by the book of Genesis and is an absolute law found in nature.
There has never been one case of a hermaphrodite (genotype) mammal ever recorded.