*sigh*
Sadly they know that if they're not seen to be virgins on their wedding night, they will likely end up divorced and the family will punish them for 'dishonor' or even kill them in extreme cases.
But I seriously don't see why the NHS (which is already short of money) should have to...
This deserves a 'WHAT?!'. Seriously, school breaks aren't that long and after 4pm (least here in the UK it's 4pm) most schools are deserted apart from the occasional sports practice.
I've lived on major bus routes, facing onto the back of a metro train track and near to a steelworks. My...
I remember reading something about how anal intercourse (one of the more common forms of sexual contact between homosexual males, although not the only one) can cause micro-fissures in the anal lining, leaving the body and the blood at risk of infection, even where the person shows no...
This is something I asked my ministers and elders (I was Baptist) and no-one could really give me an answer.
We are told in Matthew's Gospel that Jesus' birth occurred in the rule of Herod, who DIED in 4BC. So at latest, Jesus' birth and the flight to Egypt must have occurred in the...
I'm on several message forums and I've found that mostly it's a few known offenders who you KNOW are going to be trouble causers. In that case I tend to ignore them simply by not reading their posts.
Hey there
I'm Elizabeth (please feel free to call me that!) and as my user title suggests I'm a deist.
I'm a bassist and graduate in real-life, and although I spent most of my life as a Christian my background as a history major meant my studying of the Bible and the theological...
Thomas Paine's essays on the Bible and on religious practice are always worth a read if you've read or are reading The Age of Reason. They're available on the World Union of Deists website and also in a book form, 'The Complete Works of Thomas Paine'.
Also worth a read is Elihu Palmer's...