Atheists believe in things like gay marriage. They believe that if you love something you should be allowed to marry it.
Since atheists love evolution, does that mean that they will try to legalize human-theory marriage?
If this happens, will the Theory of Evolution have to change its last name?
2007-08-20 11:12:45 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Could someone please explain to me how this question is being taken seriously by so many of the respondents? I don't get it.
2007-08-20 11:20:37 · update #1
umm
huh ?
my kid says these kind of things lol
mummy I love sausages so much I am going to marry them
2007-08-20 11:16:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 13⤊ 2⤋
"Atheists believe in things like gay marriage."
Ok. First, not everyone who is an athiest believes in gays having the ability to marry. There are also many people who are religious who do support the right of gay couples to marry. However small these groups are, your opening argument already has a flaw.
"They believe that if you love something you should be allowed to marry it. "
Since your first argument has already been proven incorrect, I'm just following your (flawed) logic here, because proving you incorrect is fun.
What is "love" anyway? Why are you to define how others feel about things?
What is marriage all about anyway? If you look at it from a somewhat secular point of veiw, is it not just a committment to another person, to their well being and health in the good times and the bad? to support them, and care for them, to be there with them because they are what matters most? In many ways, we do this with other things in our society too. Many people are this committed to their jobs. Are you? Then, based on your logic, I would have to recommend that you marry your job. Or a hobby that you love, or the ideas and morals that you uphold.
And you jumped from "athiests believing in gay marriage," to the assumption that then, "athiests LOVE gay marriage," because your next statement was "they believe if you love something, you should be allowed to marry it." The assumption that athiests "love" gay marriage was stupid, because it is not a "love" of gay marriage that allows most athiests to support it, but rather the soundness of the idea, and the fact that if someone else wants to marry another of the same gender it is their business, and NOT any of yours.
"Since atheists love evolution, does that mean that they will try to legalize human-theory marriage? "
Here again, you for some strange reason believe that athiests are the only ones who support the theory of evolution. This is not true. Athiests do not "love" the theory of evolution, many instead choose to support it because of the rationality behind the idea, and the physical evidence there is to back it up.
And I understand that you are trying to make a point here, but I would advise you to scrap this whole argument and start over. Possibly then you will come up with an argument that is harder to pick apart.
Also, things aren't as black and white as you portray them to be. Keep that in mind. Not all athiests will believe such-and-such. Not all Christians will believe such-and-such. But there will always be some that will, and why? Because not everyone is the same and believes the same thing, and there is no way that you should expect them to, or label them in such a way like you think they do.
2007-08-20 11:49:18 · answer #2 · answered by choosingfreedom17 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, before you get ahead of yourself:
1.) Not all Atheists are for gay marriage. That's a statement you can not prove.
2.) Legalization of human and theory marrige... This is a stupid idea. I was raised in an Irish-Catholic household, and as I was always taught, "Priests are married to god/the church". So with that in mind, an Atheist could reply to you (from an Atheists standpoint):
"Yes, human-theory marriage has been in place for quite some time... within the church, where Priests and Nuns are married to the idea or theory of a god?"
3.) With all that in mind, this question is stupid.
2007-08-20 11:21:49 · answer #3 · answered by Ryan 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I really don't have an opinion either way on gay marriage but my devoutly christian wife sure is a supporter of it. She has two friends who really want to get married. I won't be attending the wedding because it kind of freaks me out so it would seem that in my case anyway you are full of crap on your first point huh?
On your second point, I hardly know many details about evolution much less am I in love with the theory. What I do know makes some sense to me unlike anything that I've read in the bible but I'm certainly not in love with it. So since once again as regards to me, you seem to be full of crap on your second point as well, why don't you just change evolution's name to anything that blows your skirt up.
2007-08-20 11:25:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Okay, IF this were a serious question and IF you weren't yanking on some chains here, THEN:
First off you are incorrect in you presumption that "atheists believe in things like gay marriage." Some do, some don't, but obviously somebody has gotten to your mind so you can parrot nonsense like that and actually believe it.
As to your second "point" you make it sound like loving something is a bad thing. Again, I think whoever diddled with your mind should have their butt kicked for instilling such drivel into others.
The rest of your questions ought to be taken around to the back of the barn and shot so as to put them out of their misery.
2007-08-20 11:23:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not all atheists support gay marriage, and loving a 'thing' and loving a person are two different things. I love my dog and my boat but don't want to marry them.
Not all atheists 'love' evolution. I'd bet most believe in it though.
And what is human-theory marriage anyway?
Your questions start out with absurd premises and end with an absurd supposition.
2007-08-20 11:19:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think goats should marry chickens, or humans. I think same-species marriage makes sense. And I am not in love with evolution. If people do marry the theory, the theory will be charged with polygamy.
2007-08-20 11:19:19 · answer #7 · answered by lil_lil85 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This has got to be the silliest thing that I have ever read in this section.
I am not an atheist, first off. With that having been said, atheists do not "love" evolution. Many just accept it as something that has been proven tohappen and something for which there is considerable evidence.
2007-08-20 11:16:32 · answer #8 · answered by I'm Still Here 5 · 9⤊ 0⤋
First of all, your initial premise is incorrect. Just because someone is an atheist, doesn't mean they condone gay marriage. That's a stereotype that's the same as saying everyone who is a Theist is against gay marriage. This also isn't necessarily true.
So the rest of your premise is garbage. Sorry.
2007-08-20 11:17:28 · answer #9 · answered by P S 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Only in a Pee Wee Herman world would that fly. Pee Wee does suggest that you marry anything you love (ie fruit salad, Ms. Yvonne, etc.). Take this question to the Playhouse and ask it. However, you should beware, Cowboy Curtis does not take kindly to blanket stereotypes.
2007-08-20 11:26:12 · answer #10 · answered by tmc0037 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deary,
First off, we don't "believe". We know or don't.
Second, we don't think you should marry what you love. I think you should marry WHO you love and only if it is a consensual relatioship. Loving little boys doesn't make it right to marry them, but be an adult man and love another adult man and I couldn't care less.
Honey, I'm glad I got something to laugh at before I turn in. This was definitely worth it.
2007-08-20 11:19:55 · answer #11 · answered by Maria - Godmother II of the AM 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋