Divorce rate higher in Bible Belt

[Faith No More]

The divorce rates in the belt are much higher than the average of the country.

Values about premarital sex associated with the Bible Belt and rural America may be encouraging people to marry early, at ages when they are likely to have less education and less income to support a long-lasting marriage, according to Naomi Cahn, law professor at The George Washington University Law School and co-author of "Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture."

It's ironic that pressure on people to get married early also puts them at higher risk of divorce, said Stephanie Coontz, history and family studies professor at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, director of research and public education for the Council on Contemporary Families, and author of "Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage" and other books.

"There's a moral crisis in red states that's produced by higher divorce rates and the disparity between parental values and behavior of young adults," said Cahn. "There is enormous tension between moral values and actual practices."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/08/25/div...index.html

Do you think that their god will be upset when he finds out that their stupid no pre-marital sex policy is ruining many sacred covenants between man and god?

[Ace Otana]

Fuck, imagine that. No sex before marriage. No sex for fun, like with teachers, cousins or even sisters. It's mad.

Watched one program where some nut case theists say it's wrong to even touch the other unless you're married to them. What the hell?
They say all these temptations are evil or something but they are actually perfectly natural in every way. They just perceive them as evil. We have temptations to want to touch the one you have a crush on, since it greatly stimulates many chemicals in the brain to enhance that feeling of love and attachment.

At the end of the day, that's all it's ever been. Perception. Perceiving something to be evil or unnatural due to the religious view that you hold.
I perceive everything as nature, or natural. No good or evil, no higher beings, no special purpose, no special place to go when dead. Just the natural world.

[The Grand Nudger]

Never take it off the lot without a test drive. Gotta figure it's worth less the minute it leaves the dealership and trying to trade in for a newer model is a pain in the ass. That's without taking maintenance into consideration, which can get pretty rough with some european models (not to mention the potential of factory defects).

[Faith No More]

They just perceive them as evil. We have temptations to want to touch the one you have a crush on, since it greatly stimulates many chemicals in the brain to enhance that feeling of love and attachment.

No what they is tell them it's great, but partake in sexual activity before god bestows a covenant between the partakers, is a sin to god. Now you don't want piss him off, do you?

[Ace Otana]

Now you don't want piss him off, do you?

Bit late for that. Babysitters and school teachers.

I'm still checking off all the religious rules that I've broken. Still some more to go through. I want to break every rule. Already broke the pre-marital rule about a hundred times, condemned god, spoke against god, allied myself with Satan and blasphemy in many areas.

Can someone give me the full list of not to dos? I want to see what rule I've yet to break.
Oh yeah, give blood. Think the JW's hate that.

[Minimalist]

"There's a moral crisis in red states

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What there is, is a stupidity crisis in red states brought on by too much fucking jesus and not enough cold, hard, reality.

[Kayenneh]

Stupid, religious morons. Instead of preach so much about being "pure" until marriage, they could invest in decent sex education. And of course some common sense

[frankiej]

or just in some decent sex.

[LastPoet]

I actually think this is a good thing, if they after making error don't realize how wrong their ways are, they'll never get it. I am a great apologist of learning by error

[The Grand Nudger]

2,000 years is a damned long time to learn anything. I'd suggest that they look into becoming janitors, but I want bullshit cleaned up, not spread around.