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talkpoliticsIn the Jesus legend the hero speaks of a virtual family as a greater state of being than a physical family. There are institutions in society today that promote virtual sibling-hood. Marriage is promoted as a form of virtual sibling relationship. People who profess to a faith in this hero claim to worship an eternal parent, albeit one without a partner. Some of them claim that they have experienced a second, virtual birth into an eternal abode.
As a test for these claims, we propose a simple interaction. Do they accept the proposition that there is no human life without birth? (Consider a c-section to be birth by an alternate route.) This one is usually easy for them to agree with. Is there no human birth without a human mother? This, too, is not difficult to accept. What about the proposition that there is no spiritual life without spiritual birth? This has nothing dangerous in it with which to disagree. Finally, can there be spiritual birth without a spiritual mother? This is where things get sticky. Can the spiritual charlatans identify the spiritual mother of their beloved icon? I have yet to hear a rational reply to this challenge.
Marriage is an essential aspect of slavery. Parents often control their children to usher them into the legal bondage of the chattel relationship. In California the partner who receives the greater income become the property of the partner with the lesser income. In societies where other forms of slavery are legal, the slave owner controls the sexuality of the slave.
People who live outside of the strict control of judicial sex are said to be fornicators and adulterers. They are outcast from the circle of the pious. In more rigid cultures they are stoned to death. In America illicit sex results only in a virtual stoning. (This will probably change once the Tea Party is in firm control.)
In the Jesus legend the hero is quoted as saying that people in the resurrection do not marry nor are given away by their parents to be married. The assumption on the part of the charlatans is that these people will abstain from sex altogether. After all, sexual practice would violate the Law. It would be considered fornication or adultery.
Can you think of any form of sexual activity, besides abstinence, that could be considered angelic?
As a test for these claims, we propose a simple interaction. Do they accept the proposition that there is no human life without birth? (Consider a c-section to be birth by an alternate route.) This one is usually easy for them to agree with. Is there no human birth without a human mother? This, too, is not difficult to accept. What about the proposition that there is no spiritual life without spiritual birth? This has nothing dangerous in it with which to disagree. Finally, can there be spiritual birth without a spiritual mother? This is where things get sticky. Can the spiritual charlatans identify the spiritual mother of their beloved icon? I have yet to hear a rational reply to this challenge.
Marriage is an essential aspect of slavery. Parents often control their children to usher them into the legal bondage of the chattel relationship. In California the partner who receives the greater income become the property of the partner with the lesser income. In societies where other forms of slavery are legal, the slave owner controls the sexuality of the slave.
People who live outside of the strict control of judicial sex are said to be fornicators and adulterers. They are outcast from the circle of the pious. In more rigid cultures they are stoned to death. In America illicit sex results only in a virtual stoning. (This will probably change once the Tea Party is in firm control.)
In the Jesus legend the hero is quoted as saying that people in the resurrection do not marry nor are given away by their parents to be married. The assumption on the part of the charlatans is that these people will abstain from sex altogether. After all, sexual practice would violate the Law. It would be considered fornication or adultery.
Can you think of any form of sexual activity, besides abstinence, that could be considered angelic?
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