VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Stonyground|DATE|1359140715|CONTENT|Religious rules about sex were created at a time when there was no contraception, no cure for sexually transmitted diseases, paternity was considered very important but the reproductive process was very poorly understood.

Someone once posted an analogy using tall buildings and lifts as an example. Lifts used to be potentially very dangerous because a broken cable or dislocated gear could send the car plumetting to the basement meaning certain death to all on board. So, the righteous would always take the stairs, feeling even more rightous due to the exhausting work that they had to do to get to their required floor. Lifts were immoral due to the danger and the lazyness that they represented.

Then some guy invented a braking system that cut in anytime that the tension on the cable was relaxed. This rendered lifts perfectly safe. The righteous, however, continued to regard the lifts as being just as immoral as they were before the brake was invented.

@Alun
&quot;Why did he fill the world with his own children, knowing that he would have to destroy them? And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?&quot;

Robert G. Ingersoll|EMAIL|elizabeth@iww1967.wanadoo.co.uk|IP-ADDRESS|95.150.29.241|MODERATIONFLAG|