mrstickball said:
Rath said:
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.
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Actually, I made no mention of the hazards of sex being unwanted pregnancies and STI's - although they are obvious. I was referring to the increases of divorce among those that have sex before marriage. I can pull up the case studies that prove it, but the statistics usually show that abstenence lowers divorce rates by decent margins.
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And as I said so does atheism.
However both of those statistics probably ignore confounding factors, the demographics of people most likely to be abstinent and those of the people most likely to be atheist.
