Steve wrote-
Quote:I didn't pick up on it not wishing to point out your schoolboy error of logic in trying to prove something invalid by comparison with its opposite.
I did no such thing Steve.It was Mr Dawkins who made the error.I merely pointed it out.He said belief was pernicious in isolation as if unbelief didn't have possible consequences which may,or may not,be more pernicious.I wasn't trying to prove anything valid or otherwise apart from Mr Dawkins's error or possible cynicism.
Actually Steve,if we are going to be careful,I ought to point out that there are different meanings to "fornication". Just to set the record straight I used it as shorthand for "the ejaculation of semen in sexual congress onto an egg capable at the time of being fertilised".
Hence sexual congress is not fornication when blocking mechanisms are in place.I think the Oxford restricts the word to unmarried partners but that seems odd to me and wooly.
I'm using Mr Dawkins's definition of "evil" too.As you say,competition for scarce resources,one of which is breeding women,is the real cause of pain and suffering in wars and such like and that competition is caused by population density in the main.
I think you have put the Iraq problem down to an oil grab on behalf of an exploding population yourself but correct me if I'm wrong on that.The population of America when the constitution was written was 15 million.It is now 280 million.
Of course power elites are a cause too.
I don't say the act I defined is "evil".I say it is the principle cause of all the pain and suffering.
I agree with the Pope though on contraception.
