> Subject: Re: Remote, retroactive intercessory prayer
> From: "Jim Guinee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 23:28:42 -0400
> X-Message-Number: 12
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> > Jim Guinee wrote:
> >
> ...Of course, again we can do the dance of semantics, discussing what is the
> appropriate definition of being "moral."
>
> For example, do you see divorce as an immoral act? Would you argue that
> in general staying married is more moral than getting divorced?
>
> The United States leads the industralized world in divorce rate.
> Certainly some of this has to be immoral.
Why does it follow that "some of this has to be immoral?" We also are world leaders
in the number married (re-married) does it also follow that "some of this has to be
immoral?"
Certainly many would argue that marriage of 13 year olds is immoral and certainly
that forced marriage is immoral. What about multiple marriages?
> Now when you look at believers and nonbelievers, believers are are
> probably as likely to get divorced -- but when you begin to look at how devout the
>
> believers are, the divorce rate generally decreases with each strata.
What is your source for this? According to a November 12, 1999 Associated Press
article, those in the "bible belt" had the highest divorce rate.
>
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Herb Coleman
IT Manager, Rio Grande Campus
Adjunct Psychology Professor
Austin Community College
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* "So do all who live to see such times. *
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