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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
That's a cop-out. You have a religion in mind, why not just say it?
Okay, while you're mustering up the courage, let's go down another line of questions. Why is 'pornography' wrong? Why should we applaud these religions for 'prohibiting' it? The fact that some people don't do action X because their religion tells them not to tells us NOTHING about the validity of prohibiting action X.
Extramarital affairs, given the lax definition of marriage in the religion you're thinking of, there's a lot of lee-way here. You know how many variations of man + woman/women + concubines etc. qualify as a 'marriage' in the Bible?
You know what else a lot of religions prohibit? Divorce. And divorce may be seen as a negative in your narrow view, but should people in a relationship that just isn't working (or worse, an abusive one) be compelled to stay in that relationship because some old rubbish text - translated a hundred times over from the ignorant goat herders who wrote it - says so and therefore is part of their religion?
This is stuff that is made out to be a moral issue and it really isn't. At least not in the way religion would have you believe. Religion is no more a useful contributor to moral guidance than it is a useful contributor for recipes for double-chocolate brownies.
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Great post. I was trying to think of the words to say the same thing.