the straw men of premarital sex.

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I apologize. I am just learning all of this.  Red herring?  So it is a distraction or a misdirection.

No need to apologize for learning new things, mate.

I often hear the religious cry a lot about abortion.  Then of course we see the bible full of Dog telling his people to kill all sorts of other peoples no matter man, woman, or child.  It seems clear to me that the control factor is there and they want to use any and all ways to do so. It just seems it is easier to get people to side with the sob story of killing children than it is the "sin" of sex at the wrong time.  Sorry I haven't slept since Kansas and now i'm in Iowa.

Well, there's sort of a double standard in place with god anyway: morality is from god for humans, or so goes the fundagelical logic. God isn't bound to the same standards we are, so it's bad for us to abort or to kill, but if god orders or allows it, it is to be assumed that he has a good-yet-unknowable reason for it. The point is that we must always assume god's moral primacy, such that the authority that the fundies just so happen to be the mouthpieces for is maintained.

William Lane Craig has a lovely little apologetic regarding all those genocides, which is that it was actually a really good thing, because all those children god killed are now in heaven with him, spending eternity with their murderer, so it's totally fine, and actually we should be thanking god for it. That sort of twisting should tell you a lot about the fundagelical mindset.