mrstickball said:
Concerning prohibition, you really aren't arguing if the root issue of the prohibition - if drinking was actually bad - is indeed bad. Is drinking bad? Is divorce bad? Is smoking bad? Is robbery bad? If Judeo-Christian moral code isn't appropriate for everyone, then what is the atheist/agnostic code of conduct, and how does it effect the other side of the fence? I never said educating kids with good information is wrong. I merely said abstenence is right. A balanced approach does include proper information about safe sex, but also includes information about the benefits of abstenence as well. In the case of sex, I'd liken it to drinking. There's a right and wrong way to do it. The argument your trying to make is that those of the pro-abstenence belief think that all sex is wrong. It's not. We argue that the right way to sex is inside of a stable, married, relationship. And the statistics show that abstenence until marriage has an effect on divorce, among other hazards. Also, you never answered my question about sex and relationships.
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The statistics also show that atheists have a lower divorce rate than religious people, does that mean that you are going to be an atheist?
The atheist moral code is a personal one, not one read from a book. Just because its not written down doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Also you go on about how dangerous sex before marriage is when the only real dangers (unwanted pregnancys and STIs) are caused by people not being properly protected. There are huge links between abstinence only education and both of those things. Also abstinence only education has been proven to not actually increase abstinence.
So basically all it does in the end is make the problems worse because the people having sex aren't doing it safely.
