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I quite admire this stance. We can all say the sky is blue and be telling the truth, and a church which otherwise speaks many truths, can claim the sky is green, and they are wrong anyway. Because I believe in an omnipresent God who takes all thoughts and all experiences in, even harmful...

uh - Hottie - Jehovah's witnesses believe in a diety - God. They call him Jehovah. They also believe in Jesus. I can't say I entirely disagree about them being cult-like, but you are mistaken when you say they don't believe in a diety. The preponderence of abortions are performed in the...

I appreciate your candor. I have never doubted God's love for me as a woman. I need only look at the Book of Ruth... Or meditate upon the Samaritan woman who Jesus met at the well. She was the first to share the gospel after all. Then there's Mary Magdalene... I need not go on...

Teenage guys are the most non-committal creatures on the planet. They won't tell you they like you. They won't tell you they don't like you. They're more fickle than high-strung birds. Good luck. If he has any sense at all in the universe, he will jump at the chance to date you...

I am not convinced any one person or sect in the world has gotten everything right. I believe all religions and sects are flawed, as all human endeavors must be - but I also think many of them have a lot right, even ones I don't ascribe to or particularly agree with on major points.

1. There is no cumpulsory attendance beyond the 12th grade in the United States. ALL College courses are therefore, elective, as no one is forced to attend or take a specific academic path. 2. Even the most hardened atheists of acedemia would not likely object to the scholarly study of relgion...

Ortho TriCyclin - a birth control pill that also helps with acne. Kiss My Face Soap - I swear by it - mild, doesn't leave a residue on skin. All these cleansers and products that leave chemicals on the skin may do more harm than good for some people by irritating the skin. My parents...

Cripes - I need to put my glasses on...edit edit edit edit. Thank you.

It isn't - and I am glad you spoke-up.

Heath - 7 Million ASL users? What are you smoking? Try Galludet University's site for a bit mor accurate information. "Across all age groups, approximately 600,000 people in the United States (0.22% of the population, or 2.2 per 1,000) are "deaf;" more than half are over 65 years of age...

TrippLA, I don't recall you ever claiming to be bisexual in the past. I am glad you are open about your sexual prefence though. Me - I have always been bi. Can't remember when I didn't like boys and girls about the same.

I found it very interesting that ASL had some roots in France - having studied French and ASL, it has always struck me that ASL grammar is much more like that of the Romance languages (Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese) than it is like the grammar of the Germanic languages (English, German...

CyberRed - There are several faith healing sects in Christianity: Christian Science, Church of the First Born, and many others considered to be part of the radical fundamentalist movements of the 20th Century. Jehovah's Witnesses are not alone in this. When you have studied the Qu'ran...

I live in Southern California in one of the most conservative counties in the U.S. - Orange County. I have always found there to be a significant issue with Homobhobia and Racism here - many documented hate crimes.

There are three issues at play here: 1. My need or someone else's need to share a personal missive about faith with others. 2. The desire to respect and honor others on their faith path, even if different from mine. 3. The State imposing or suggesting one narrow definition of faith is the...

I don't know that homophobia is something that can be measured objectively. I think the best way to get a sense of where the problem is the worst is to look at the frequency of GLBTI motivated hate crime.

My husband calls me "Dear" and I hate hate hate that, but he can't help it. His daughter is Lauren and we still call her Yarns because that's what it sounded like when her baby cousin would try to say her name. One time a dumb guy at a coffe place could not hear when my husband said his...

Who had to flee from Catholics? The "Pilgrims" fled from the Church of England - which was the "official" church of the English empire, and itself had been created in opposition to Catholicism. If anything speaks to the need for separation of church and state, this would be it. And you talk...

Sperm banks use rigorous testing and other procedures to ensure the material does not pass disease to the recipients. Making statements like this is needless alarmism.

Good for you for doing this. I applaud you for doing what is right for you even if other people might not approve.