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summit, no-one except some really creepy people from the deep south try and force those on anyone, they are instructions to believers of that religion. which gets rid of the first 4. but the rest of them are relevant advice in general situations. though most have exceptions such as the ones you mentioned.
why is "do not commit adultery" ill-founded advice? it can ruin marriages, and in a lot of cases it suggests that there is something lacking in the marriage, also one again it is not meant for a religion with forced marriages, it is meant for christians. there is obviously something lacking in your relationship if you feel the need for wife swapping.
as for what you said about the various laws given other that the 10 commandments (ie book of leviticus), they are social rules that almost all modern christians would tell you are not the word of god. i challenge you to find any christian who follows the rule about not shaving the hair on the side of their face.
as for dogmatism replacing morals bullshit. do laws govern morals as well then? they say similar things dont they, yet no-one complains that they are dogmatic, despite being enforced by the police, do you need the fear of arrest to follow the laws? people have morals based around the rules of the society they live in, with varying amounts of certain nicetys around the edge, it is generally considered strange or wrong to commit adultery, by most people christian or not. lieing is also looked down on in most situations, religion is just somewhere they are written down in broad terms.
anyway all religions have such laws, are they not also dogmatic. in comparison to muslims, people hate christians because they are less dogmatic, and let people criticise them, you go to a muslim country, and no-one hates muslims, because they have all been indoctrinated into the faith.
you just happen to live in a part of the world where christianity is the main faith, but where a lack of dogmatism means that atheism has begun to become predominant in society. which is good, dogmatism should not rule.
as for the whole pill debate, if the girl doesnt want to get pregnant she doesnt have to have sex. its that simple. if the mother doesnt believe in her daughter having sex before marriage then that is how she would see it, its not a neccesity that her daughter gets laid. if she were blocking her from doing something that would be beneficial to her health or save her life, then compromising your morals is okay. but religion has nothing to with this debate anyway, some people wouldnt want their children having sex before marriage even if they were atheist because its against the morals that they have decided on. some christians do allow sex before marriage so there is a choice on the matter.
someone having different morals than you does not make them a horrible person.
and going way back to decius comments about christians hated for previous crimes. that should also bear for people in the deep south because of what they did to black people. are we to hold a permanent grudge against them for that? if not please explain to me exactly where the difference lies, cause as far as i can see there is no remorse on their part, they just stopped doing it, though some still dont like coloured people.
in general what people hate about christians is the fact that they are there. this is a largely atheist area, so when people decide that they are atheist and hate religion the one they know about (through its being taught at school in large amounts of the western world) so its the one they know how to attack, they cant attack what they dont know without appearing even more ridiculous than your petty nitpicking at things you have misread or have different opinions on.
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