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No such thing as a god and life ends when you die?
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No such thing as a god and life ends when you die?
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There is such an entity as a God, but only one and you don't die but live in eternal bliss in heaven or burn in hell?
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There is such an entity as a God, but only one and you don't die but live in eternal bliss in heaven or burn in hell?
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There are many gods and you don't die but continue in alternate cycles of the spirit world and the matierial world?
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There are many gods and you don't die but continue in alternate cycles of the spirit world and the matierial world?
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Post by Ugly Dougly » Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:44 pm

Crom was their chief, and he lived on a great mountain, whence he sent forth dooms and death. It was useless to call on Crom, because he was a gloomy, savage god, and he hated weaklings. But he gave a man courage at birth, and the will and might to kill his enemies, which, in the Cimmerian's mind, was all any god should be expected to do.
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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:38 am

"Tensions can emerge when one parent takes a turn toward fundamentalism. In 2006, the United States Supreme Court let stand a decision by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania that permitted Stanley Shepp to tell his 14-year-old daughter about polygamy.
Mr. Shepp and his former wife, Tracey Roberts, were Mormons living in York, Pa., when they married. But Mr. Shepp espoused polygamy as a tenet of their faith.
Ms. Roberts contends that Mr. Shepp spoke to one of her daughters from a previous marriage about marrying him, which he denies. She left Mr. Shepp and has primary custody of their daughter. He was excommunicated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for his polygamist views and is now part of a Mormon fundamentalist movement in Utah.

Mr. Shepp petitioned for better-defined custody rights for his daughter, but Ms. Roberts objected because he had exposed the child to polygamist Mormon communities. The court upheld Mr. Shepp’s right to teach his daughter about polygamy, saying it could not find evidence that such teaching harmed her physical or mental health..."

Our courts are basing child custody on religion. If judges can’t see what happens in polygamy then Religion should never be the basis of custody! Here is the full article in the times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/us/13 ... =2&_r=1&hp

Case in point is Fundamental Mormonism. Which causes dysfunction people to enter the general population in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of young men from their communities because a bunch of old fucking men want to fuck little girls. These boys are most likely to be jailed for stealing and drug use. Look at the welfare records of a community called Colorado City, AZ or York, PA. Look at the criminal records of local cities like Saint George, Utah and Philadelphia, PA!

York, PA???????? I think I see something going on now!

Just glad that Romney didn’t get elected it would have been like voting Joe Smith for president and we know what he did to steal money from land owners of his time!

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Post by terlingua » Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:08 am

None of the above.

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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:18 pm

Terlinqua, read "Under the Banner of Heaven" you will be amazed what you will find out!

As far as the expelled boys of mormonism, it as well as the pedophilia that takes place is all very sad.

With all the Mormons in the FBI, this goes on and on and on!

The facts are there! Read the book!

Free yourselve and join Scientology.

Send me $500.00 and you shall be saved!

(PM me and give me bank routing numbers and account and I'll sent you enlightenment!)

Be saved or be a wholesale whore!

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Post by can't sit still » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:30 pm

"Be saved or be a wholesale whore! " Well, if you put it like that, it's a pretty easy decision. Being saved always seems to involve some kind of loss. :( I vote for whoring 8)



>> A Conservative Muslim was seated next to an Australian on a flight
>> from London to Melbourne, Australia.
>>
>> After the plane was airborne, drink orders were taken.The Aussie asked
>> for a rum and coke, which was brought and placed before him.
>>
>> The flight attendant then asked the Muslim if he would like a drink.
>> He replied in disgust, "I'd rather be savagely raped by a dozen whores
>> than let liquor touch my lips."
>>
>> The Aussie then handed his drink back to the attendant and said, "Me
>> too. I didn't know we had a choice".
>
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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:39 pm

can't sit still wrote:"Be saved or be a wholesale whore! " Well, if you put it like that, it's a pretty easy decision. Being saved always seems to involve some kind of loss. :( I vote for whoring 8)



>> A Conservative Muslim was seated next to an Australian on a flight
>> from London to Melbourne, Australia.
>>
>> After the plane was airborne, drink orders were taken.The Aussie asked
>> for a rum and coke, which was brought and placed before him.
>>
>> The flight attendant then asked the Muslim if he would like a drink.
>> He replied in disgust, "I'd rather be savagely raped by a dozen whores
>> than let liquor touch my lips."
>>
>> The Aussie then handed his drink back to the attendant and said, "Me
>> too. I didn't know we had a choice".
>
You slut!




























































Keep them jokes coming!

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Post by can't sit still » Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:15 pm

"You slut" Why thank you Zeus!!



Subject: Vasectomy, Southern Style

After their 11th child, an Alabama couple decided enough was enough,
as they could not afford a larger bed.

So the husband went to his veterinarian and told him that he and his
cousin didn't want to have any more children.

The doctor told him that there was a procedure called a vasectomy that
could fix the problem but that it was expensive. "A less costly
alternative," said the doctor, "is to go home, get a cherry bomb
(fireworks are legal in Alabama), light it, put it in a beer can, then
hold the can up to your ear and count to 10."

The Alabamian said to the doctor, "I may not be the smartest tool in
the shed, but I don't see how putting a cherry bomb in a beer can next
to my ear is going to help me."

"Trust me," said the doctor.

So the man went home, lit a cherry bomb and put it in a beer can. He
held the can up to his ear and began to count!





"1"





"2"





"3"





"4"





"5"





At which point he paused, placed the beer can between his legs and
continued counting on his other hand.





This procedure also works in Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana ,
Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, West Virginia and Washington, D.C.
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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:57 pm

Can't sit Still, your jokes are wonderful, but I must speak out on Mormon fundamentalist groups especially with the raid on the “Yearning For Zion Ranchâ€

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Post by can't sit still » Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:28 pm

Zeus, I agree that the LDS is a giant corporation. The whole polygamy thing seems more trouble than it's worth. It seems that it would be easier to just be a group of swingers and not formalise plural marriages.
Unfortunately, it appears that religions evolve from minimal control to maximum control.

As far as legal weed, i doubt it. Way back when, refer was legal. I think that the PTB decided that weed was just too hard to tax. It's difficult for the average person to make good booze. Pot, on the other hand is very easy to cultivate.
I believe that it's just a question of which is easiest to tax.

I'm not anti-social. It's just that power attracts corruption. It seems that you can't get more than 10 people together without some SOB coming along to figure a way to fuck them.
Historicly, there have been good governments and good leaders. I just haven't seen any lately.
Mass-media has perfected the nechanisms of control. Apparently, mass-media think that Clinton and McCain would be good for the country.
It looks like we've had our souls ripped out to the point that we'll put up with anything without revolt.
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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:44 pm

Jesus found! We are saved!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world ... ne.html?hp

Ok, Jes, let do a retake, but this time more walking on water like it solid and don't smile into the camera. You're serious and you got this divine mission.

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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:05 pm

Hey people, Judaism, Christianity and Islam is a fucking lie.

So fuck me "Anti-roman-militant" Jesus up the ass if you can hear or read this:

"In Scranton, Pa., every Catholic attending Mass this weekend will hear a special homily about the election next month: Bishop Joseph Martino has ordered every priest in the diocese to read a letter warning that voting for a supporter of abortion rights amounts to endorsing “homicide.â€

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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:05 am

When is the government going to step in and remove the tax exemption from false religions such as religion of the barbarian romans and other pop religions when they come out with statements such as this!

http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dl ... 1/81019004

This asshole spoke at a meeting using his God-Given-Title (which was given to him by the spokesman of god, "The Pope")

If this is not a violation of the IRS, then what is?

Judaism, Christianity and Islam are based on myths of jewish history.

Barbarians All!

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Post by can't sit still » Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:00 pm

Zeus, physically, we're all animals. What makes a barbarian ? What makes a non-barbarian? As just a spur-of-the-moment thought, I think that the difference is ; A non-barbarian holds on very tightly to the thin veneer of civilization that separates us from the animals. A barbarian permits and sometimes desires to let loose of that veneer. The resulting mayhem gratifies his animal nature :twisted:
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Post by Elderberry » Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:09 pm

AIIZ, I couldn't agree with you more--especially on NO TAX EXEMPTION for any religious group.

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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:26 pm

can't sit still wrote:Zeus, physically, we're all animals. What makes a barbarian ? What makes a non-barbarian? As just a spur-of-the-moment thought, I think that the difference is ; A non-barbarian holds on very tightly to the thin veneer of civilization that separates us from the animals. A barbarian permits and sometimes desires to let loose of that veneer. The resulting mayhem gratifies his animal nature :twisted:
Why barbarian (a Greek word) basically means: Them, others, all people or things not Greek!

"Barbarian" is a pejorative term for an uncivilized person, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos perceived as having an inferior level of civilization, or in an individual reference to a brutal, cruel, warlike, insensitive person whose behaviour is unacceptable in the society of the speaker.[1] Barbarians are considered distinct from savages in that they are perceived as being willfully ignorant, choosing to preserve their way of life despite contact with more civilized societies (e.g. the ancient Greek-speaking peoples often considered any ethnic group unwilling to accept their culture as barbarian).

All religions should pay taxes if they ask for Tithing. That includes federal taxes period! Especially those evangelical religions. Its not enough to make them pay estate taxes, but also windfall taxes!

Make god give a cut to society to make up for all the ills that they create! I could list them most of them, but it's sunday so I'm god a break.

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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:57 pm

help, I'm marooned on the planet of the apes!

Bill White is an ape stopping the advancement of the apes.

Bill White must be I#*R

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_White_(neo-nazi)

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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:01 am

the gods are watching!

They haven't given up on us now that Obama is here!

do the thing

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Post by Ugly Dougly » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:39 am

Apollonaris Zeus wrote:
can't sit still wrote:Zeus, physically, we're all animals. What makes a barbarian ? What makes a non-barbarian? As just a spur-of-the-moment thought, I think that the difference is ; A non-barbarian holds on very tightly to the thin veneer of civilization that separates us from the animals. A barbarian permits and sometimes desires to let loose of that veneer. The resulting mayhem gratifies his animal nature :twisted:
Why barbarian (a Greek word) basically means: Them, others, all people or things not Greek!

"Barbarian" is a pejorative term for an uncivilized person, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos perceived as having an inferior level of civilization, or in an individual reference to a brutal, cruel, warlike, insensitive person whose behaviour is unacceptable in the society of the speaker.[1] Barbarians are considered distinct from savages in that they are perceived as being willfully ignorant, choosing to preserve their way of life despite contact with more civilized societies (e.g. the ancient Greek-speaking peoples often considered any ethnic group unwilling to accept their culture as barbarian).

All religions should pay taxes if they ask for Tithing. That includes federal taxes period! Especially those evangelical religions. Its not enough to make them pay estate taxes, but also windfall taxes!

Make god give a cut to society to make up for all the ills that they create! I could list them most of them, but it's sunday so I'm god a break.
Crom will punish you for your hurtful words. :(

To the desert with them! A week in the searing heat will straighten them out...

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Post by ygmir » Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:01 am

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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:24 pm

Ugly Dougly wrote:
Apollonaris Zeus wrote:
can't sit still wrote:Zeus, physically, we're all animals. What makes a barbarian ? What makes a non-barbarian? As just a spur-of-the-moment thought, I think that the difference is ; A non-barbarian holds on very tightly to the thin veneer of civilization that separates us from the animals. A barbarian permits and sometimes desires to let loose of that veneer. The resulting mayhem gratifies his animal nature :twisted:
Why barbarian (a Greek word) basically means: Them, others, all people or things not Greek!

"Barbarian" is a pejorative term for an uncivilized person, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos perceived as having an inferior level of civilization, or in an individual reference to a brutal, cruel, warlike, insensitive person whose behaviour is unacceptable in the society of the speaker.[1] Barbarians are considered distinct from savages in that they are perceived as being willfully ignorant, choosing to preserve their way of life despite contact with more civilized societies (e.g. the ancient Greek-speaking peoples often considered any ethnic group unwilling to accept their culture as barbarian).

All religions should pay taxes if they ask for Tithing. That includes federal taxes period! Especially those evangelical religions. Its not enough to make them pay estate taxes, but also windfall taxes!

Make god give a cut to society to make up for all the ills that they create! I could list them most of them, but it's sunday so I'm god a break.
Crom will punish you for your hurtful words. :(

To the desert with them! A week in the searing heat will straighten them out...
ON what part offened the great god?

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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:14 pm

Well its passover and easter once again Woopee

OK I won't over doo it but there are some holes in the concept of passover that the torah just doesn't jibe.

OK lets just forget the magic stuff of the torah, like the river of blood, staff of Noah changing into a snake, the frogs, locust and first born dying stuff since that stuff just doesn't happen.

So what really did happen? How did a weak old man called Noah get the release of the slave jews.

Unless, they weren't really slaves like the black slaves but more like the slaves of Rome which had some rights. The right to buy their freedom.

If you reexamine this situation, then certain events seem to jive. Though they don't read like the story in the torah, they do make sense. Since the powerful wouldn't let slaves just go. The right to purchase their freedom makes sense, when you take in account on mount where Noah receives the 10 commandments and returns to see his followers praising a cow made of gold. Yes, gold. where do ex-slave Jews get gold. They only get gold if they were employed or where compensated slaves a type of indentured slavery.

So the truth may be that Noah negotiated a payment for their freedom or that their employment had ended!

It's not an exciting read of course, but maybe that is why it's called, "passover" pass over the gold and you can go free!

hehehe!

Now the Christians were jealous of the jews since they had passover so they created easter. Which sounds more like rewriting the story of Hades and Persphones rising to the earth in a metaphor of the spring planting season to Jesus rising to heaven. This would an association that the romans would fully be comfortable with.

Have you ever wondered that these scenarios might have been the real truth to these religions.

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Post by Monkeypoo » Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:38 pm

The Christians stole Easter from the Pagans.

Oestre/Easter: The name Easter derived from the Saxon Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). The ancient Saxons in Northern Europe worshipped the Goddess Oestre at the time of the Spring Equinox. The Goddess Easter represents the sunrise, spring-time and fertility, the renewal of life. Pagan Anglo-Saxons made offerings of colored eggs to her at the Vernal Equinox. They placed them at graves especially, probably as a charm of rebirth. (Egyptians and Greeks were also known to place eggs at gravesites). Only later did the Christians pilfer the name for themselves and graft their religion onto a pagan celebration.

http://www.nobeliefs.com/easter.htm

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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:33 am

So we know where the egg went, but were did the body go?

And were did the gold come from?

Oh such lies we tell our children!

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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:11 pm

Apollonaris Zeus wrote:Well its passover and easter once again Woopee

OK I won't over doo it but there are some holes in the concept of passover that the torah just doesn't jibe.

OK lets just forget the magic stuff of the torah, like the river of blood, staff of Noah changing into a snake, the frogs, locust and first born dying stuff since that stuff just doesn't happen.

AIIZ
Ooops, that wasn't Noah, Moses! That's what happens when you haven't watched the 10 commandments for a while!

Remember it might not had been a plague, but a poisoning on the night when all jews were to mark their homes so god would know who the good people were and the evil one where to die. Yep, a God needs to know who to wack and who not to wack!

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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:27 am

wow, I just saw that history channel on Moses and the jews journey to the promise land.

What a bastard Moses was! Murderer, thief, broke agreements, stole lands from countries that even help them and broke truces even employed massive GENOCIDE!

I guess that the reason there is NO god that guide or watch over the jews.

Never was! What God would help liers and theives and genocidal warring maniacs

Same for the Christain and Muslims.

Sad and they go and rewrite their histories and say, "God Made Me Do It!"

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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:42 pm

So where do we go from here.

several genocides occured. No more should occur.

No gods have promised only man has taketh!

And if you were a God what would your resolution be before you start the Apocalypse. What would be fair for all those past and present?

Though I am not a God, but a voice on Eplaya-

To Live and Let Live!

To Share and Let Share!

To Compromise! None gets all they want!

Two States in accord with Oslo Agreement!

The division of Jerusalem!

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Post by can't sit still » Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:13 pm

"If somebody asks if you if you're a god, YOU SAY YES!!!" Dan Ackroyd
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Post by ygmir » Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:43 pm

Monkeypoo wrote:The Christians stole Easter from the Pagans.

Oestre/Easter: The name Easter derived from the Saxon Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). The ancient Saxons in Northern Europe worshipped the Goddess Oestre at the time of the Spring Equinox. The Goddess Easter represents the sunrise, spring-time and fertility, the renewal of life. Pagan Anglo-Saxons made offerings of colored eggs to her at the Vernal Equinox. They placed them at graves especially, probably as a charm of rebirth. (Egyptians and Greeks were also known to place eggs at gravesites). Only later did the Christians pilfer the name for themselves and graft their religion onto a pagan celebration.

http://www.nobeliefs.com/easter.htm
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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Wed May 06, 2009 6:56 am

Oh my God, a priest caught Kissing!

Stone Him Christians! You must stone! Your God is Sellabit so should you!

Catholic priest in Miami may be defrocked over kissing photo
BY Christina Boyle
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Updated Wednesday, May 6th 2009, 7:19 AM


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Father Alberto Cutie, seen here in 1999, is embroiled in scandal after photos of him on a beach with a woman surfaced.
A popular Miami Catholic priest has been been called before his archbishop after he was snapped lying on a beach kissing a woman.

Pictures believed to be of Alberto Cutié have appeared in a Spanish-language television magazine showing him stretched out on a towel next to a brunette, who drapes her arm over him, and then reaches over to kiss him.

Read more: "Catholic priest in Miami may be defrocked over kissing photo" - Image

What do you want. He's a Cutie!

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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Fri May 08, 2009 8:23 am

A Brief History Of: Abstinence
By M.J. Stephey Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009Tony Cenicola / The New York Times

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"Everyone should be abstinent," Bristol Palin said during a Feb. 16 Fox News interview, just two months after the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska's Republican governor gave birth to a 7-lb. 7-oz. baby boy. But abstinence is "not realistic at all," she added. Evidently not.

Suppressing one's earthly desires until marriage is a tenet of nearly all religions, though the burden of premarital abstinence has largely rested on the bride. Prepubescent marriages and gruesome practices like genital mutilation and the imposition of chastity belts have long been used in the name of guarding a girl's "purity." Tales of famous (and famously celibate) females like Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I and Florence Nightingale, to name a few, have helped uphold this chaste ideal, while medical literature from as late as the 19th century advised men to preserve their semen to boost vitality--a notion that dates back to Hippocrates and continues to this day among superstitious athletes. In recent years, the case for abstinence has broadened to include sexually transmitted diseases, with members of the True Love Waits movement arguing that celibacy is the only way to prevent AIDS.

Palin's anecdotal evidence aside, federal studies have shown that abstinence-only education has done little to curb teen-pregnancy rates, despite the nearly $1 billion in federal funding that such programs have received since 2000. More than a third of all births in the U.S. are to single women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That an unwed teenage mother, the eldest daughter of a prominent politician, no less, can chat about the birds and the bees on national TV speaks volumes about changing attitudes--even if the young lady's message contradicts itself.

True Love Can Wait,

But True Lust always win!

Don't waste my fucking Tax Dollars!

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