You say I'm misrepresenting you, I say you're misrepresenting me. This leads to my capitulation (on my second try!) that a truce is needed since our opinions are just too different...
I'm just hoping some people out there will evaluate our separate arguments and put in their two cents about what makes more sense... since there isn't exactly a moderator.
I'm just fine if you are declared the winner if I can go back to my fantasy world of gender equality and abolishment of stereotypes.
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In order for evolution to work today to reverse these numbers, there needs to be a mechanism that causes men who are prosmicious to stop passing on their genes.
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Herein lies the dilemma. Thanks to religious values of monogamy, men and women who mate and reproduce with one partner (aka marriage) have become the majority. Since women value emotional connection with their mate, the philanderers would be rooted out (even less likely- since the advent of birth control- that a woman would choose to reproduce with a man who will not stay with her). Combine these values passed on with many other social factors that discourage promiscuity and the "promiscuous" gene would be the one which gets bred out. It's not the natural order of things, but it's how we have slowly become.
Of course, these things come in waves. Whether there's a social wave of monogamous values or a sexual revolution, each generation will be slightly different.
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Are you equating pedophiles with adults cheating on their spouses? Your moral compass is definitely whacked!
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I should have said: FROM priest molesters TO serial philanderers- thinking with your dick kind of applies to both on opposite extremes.
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Also, yet again, without fail, you're misrepresenting me... Did I ever say cheating is ok? If simply stating facts like 'men cheats' suddenly makes you angry at me, then I guess I should just shut up!
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I myself am trying to figure out why cheating inspires such emotion in some people. I am angry with the notion itself and not at you. Betrayal of any kind is a major catalyst for some people that will inspire rage, self-deprecation, depression, etc. and they are not any less normal for it.
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Yet, yet, another misrepresentation... did I say women don't cheat? I say if they do, they generally do it because they are not satisfied with their relationships or when their testosterone levels are at the highest and the opportunity presents themselves... In fact, I specifically said that about 50% of women cheats as well... perhaps not as frequent, but this is one stat or survey that is done... Men cheat for reaons of having sex alone most of the time... have I said they don't cheat for any other reasons?
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Sorry, but your concrete way of laying down point 1,2 and 3 in presenting your opinions does draw that conclusion.
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Women equate sex with love and emotions. Women in general cannot just have sex with strangers.
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Putting sentences like these side by side implies that they are related. You say women can't have sex when they aren't in love, I say women can't sleep around like men do because society tells them not to, it's freaking dangerous, and there's a lot more complications at stake (pregnancy) Both statements may be true but I don't feel that one provides proof of the other. I believe that women could be just as horny and value sex as highly as men if given the chance. If you can be the authority on what men think, this is what I have perceived as what women think...
Moving on...
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And yes, you are not a true christian because you basically ignored the word of god (the bible)... Would the pope agree with you, btw?
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Ooh- here lies our problem. Can I take a wild guess and say that you were raised Roman catholic, or something equally orthodox? Yeah- I'm Presbytarien/Protestant (basically the laziest tradition-wise and the most liberal) and Catholicism hates us cause they think we're not extreme enough. Luckily, I came away with my religion intact and unscathed.
So orthodox Christians will tell me that I'm not Christian because I don't believe in the entire bible or interpret it literally. But I feel that because the bible was written by humans and thus flawed by the opinions of those who wrote it (thus the misogyny, the contradictions, the prejudice, etc) I can't trust most of it. The only things I feel obligated to follow word for word are the teachings of Christ.
And doesn't believing in Christ make you Christian? Jesus says that's all you need. What a contradiction, huh? Jesus says this IN THE BIBLE, but Catholics say you're not because you've ALSO got to believe in the Bible.
If it's confusing, feel free to think of me as something else that believes in Jesus and is not Christian, and that is what I am.
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As far as I am concerned, you got more of your morals from science and a liberal society, then from your religion...
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Wouldn't it be nice if religion and science could be integrated? Both blasphemous and illogical, but nice.
You can say that, but I will always give science and religion equal thought and I believe that one could never replace the other.