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The Role of Religion In Causing Rape

The Nerd's discussion is very popular and spirited, so I suggest breaking it up into subcategories, so as not to be inundated with comments.

I've always felt that religion weaves a pernicious web in human behavior. Making people to associate guilt and shame with our natural bodies is a crime against humanity. Religious orthodoxy takes a wonderful gift of nature and

If sex were a positive and natural activity, I believe rape would diminish and eventually cease in an enlightened society.

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Permalink Reply by David Miller on December 15, 2009 at 3:33pm

I could imagine such a tribesman being like, "Yup, it's mine too."

So you're saying that the manner in which hominids lived before us is the key to our happiness? That's brilliant, I never thought about that. Though this sort of screws us- there's no way to convince people of such simple and honest wisdom

While I agree that people are generally good, I feel that they're also generally evil. Maybe that's just a negetive outloook.

Permalink Reply by OutlawGirl on December 12, 2009 at 9:44pm

Some species of higher animals have been known to rape others in their species. Dolphins, for example. Seeing as humans are also higher animals I don't know that escaping religion alone will be enough to deminish the frequincy of rape, though it would certainly help.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Goscicki on December 15, 2009 at 2:28pm

Outlaw, I think being mammal has a lot to do with it. Only a small percentage of male lions, big horn sheep, wolves, etc. do all the fathering. A male lion will even kill cubs of another male on becoming king.

This leaves the subordinate 95% with a tremendous sex drive with no females available without a fight with a strong alpha. This is how homosexuality evolved, I believe; the urge must be satiated. This phenomenon goes across mammalia. There is nothing “unnatural” about same gender sex, as the Holy Father would have people believe.

Interestingly, what is unnatural is voyeurism. You do not see this in the natural world. I’m excluding those pesky panting toy dogs that used to drive me crazy. They are inbred and not natural animals.

Celebrity worship is an outgrowth of voyeurism and is very strange. Tiger Woods’ wife wasn’t wearing a wedding ring today. Who cares? Tiger did what any tribesman would do with that much opportunity. How is her naked ring finger news to anybody but Tiger and his lawyers?

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Permalink Reply by Rayray on December 14, 2009 at 11:26am

Hey where did Jacqueline go? Does anyone have her new contact info?

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Permalink Reply by Rayray on December 14, 2009 at 11:40am

Oh my. Did not know.

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Permalink Reply by David Miller on December 14, 2009 at 1:49pm

Wow, it takes away all of her responses too?

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Permalink Reply by Rayray on December 14, 2009 at 1:55pm

Yeah, looks like it. Too bad, she had some pretty good stuff here.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Goscicki on December 14, 2009 at 2:22pm

Glen,

What's a kafluffle?

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Permalink Reply by Richard Goscicki on December 14, 2009 at 4:34pm

Did she say what she was mad about? I could see her leaving the discussion but she closed down her page here.

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Permalink Reply by Cheryl Wolfe on December 19, 2009 at 1:34pm

What "kind" would that be, exactly?

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Permalink Reply by The Nerd on December 15, 2009 at 9:14am

Jacqueline left because of a personal conflict between herself and a few other members. While I'm very sad to see her go, it was her personal decision to make. I understand that there are a few people on AN who lack tact, but sadly unless they are flat-out breaking the rules, we cannot moderate bad attitudes.