(August 22, 2016 at 7:55 pm)PETE_ROSE Wrote: Speak slow so I can understand you. Keeping sex, between two people, within the institution of marriage, is the cause of sexual promiscuity, children being born out of wedlock, and the demise of the nuclear family?
It's almost as if your indoctrination has disabled your mind's ability to evaluate anything without being filtered through said indoctrination.

Think about it. You're trying to run your mind, in the modern world, using Bronze Age software.
The same software that believed: the earth was the center of the universe, there was a dome over the earth, you could cure leprosy with the blood of birds, you could breed striped sheep by having them mate in front of poles painted with stripes...
So sad...
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.