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In Worldnet Daily’s ‘lets rape unfaithful women’ OpEd is the following sentence: “There may be a genuine moral argument against rape to be made outside of the Judeo-Christian ethic, but I have yet to hear it.” – how very deaf you must be. I’ve noticed increasing reference to the so called ‘Judeo-Christian’ tradition. This lumping of Judaism with Christianity together with the claims of Millennium Christian radicals is an insult that could possibly lead to injury, since historical precedent suggests that jews will eventually get the blame. Given that there are three religious sects that worship the same deity and find common ancestry in Abraham: Judaism, Islam and Christianity, reference to the Judeo-Islamo-Christian, or, more elegantly, ‘Abrahamic’, tradition makes some sense. The permutation: ‘Judeo-Christian tradition’ stems, obviously, from the fact that Christianity supersizes the Torah into its own edition, whereas Islam rewrites it. But what of the other alternatives: Given…

“if a woman consents to extramarital sex, she is committing a moral offense which is equal to that committed by the man who engages in consensual sex with her, or by the man who, in the absence of such consent, rapes her. Christianity knows no hierarchy of sins. Since only the woman who is not entertaining the possibility of sex with a man and is subsequently raped can truly be considered a wholly innocent victim under this ethic” I’ll paraphrase this nonsense because the writing is so bad: ‘A woman who considers, for a second, the possibility of sex outside of marriage is no better than a man who actually rapes her.’ This is what some people who call themselves Christians actually believe. As an aside, the guy who wrote the article describes himself as a Christian Libertarian (i.e. someone who both rejects and blindly worships authority). Here are some…

“No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.” “Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.” I believe – that atheists like Jillette tend to be nicer people because they don’t have to pretend to be nicer. NPR : There is No God