A marriage without children seems unnecessary. Paul said it's best to stay single so you can focus on God, if you marry without wanting to have children, then it just seems selfish and self-centered and taking attention away from God. Even if you don't have children of your own, there should still be a focus on children, otherwise you could stay single and make God your only focus.
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Well, someone obviously doesn't appreciate the advantages of live-in nookie. Pfft...
And as George Carlin said, fuck the children. I don't think they're as important as fundies make them about to be.
Well, that's nice, but my life doesn't contain God, nor will it after I'm married. Does that make your head explode?
Funny, I thought marriage was a sort of legal contract. Why would a piece of paper dictate my focus in life?
...Oh, right. Bible. Right.
'best to stay single so you can focus on God'
'taking attention away from God'
'make God your only focus.'
Who's selfish and self-centered now? Not everyone can be a monk.
A marriage without children seems unnecessary.
So if you don't want kids, you should stay single and just screw around? OK with me - keeps my taxes down.
If childfree couples are selfish, fundies who get married solely to procreate are doubly selfish. They unnecessarily add to an already exploding population, without any real benefit to having their little fundies-in-training. They have kids because they WANT them, and only use the bullshit "glorifying God" line to justify their decision. Hypocrites.
Paul said that because he believed Jesus was coming straight back, like Jesus believed - tee hee! He thought there was no point because the 2nd coming was at hand.
He then said that you should get married if you wanted to have sex so you wouldn't be tempted by Satan. Kids weren't mentioned at all you fuckwit, Jesus was coming straight back - tee hee!
Don't believe me?
"I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn." (I Corinthians 7:8-9)
A marriage without children seems unnecessary. Paul said it's best to stay single so you can focus on God, if you marry without wanting to have children, then it just seems selfish and self-centered and taking attention away from God. Even if you don't have children of your own, there should still be a focus on children, otherwise you could stay single and make God your only focus.
Is it just me, or is this person going in circles?
Let me get this straight...it's selfish to get married because it takes the focus away from God, yet it's not selfish to have children because it takes the focus away from God.
...What?
A marriage without children seems unnecessary. Paul said it's best to stay single so you can focus on God, if you marry without wanting to have children, then it just seems selfish and self-centered and taking attention away from God. Even if you don't have children of your own, there should still be a focus on children, otherwise you could stay single and make God your only focus.
Is it just me, or is this person going in circles?
Let me get this straight...it's selfish to get married because it takes the focus away from God, yet it's not selfish to have children because it takes the focus away from God.
...What?
Actually I quite agree with him, at least with the first sentence (and I could even get rid of the "without children").
Seriously, marriage is a religious institution, why should atheists get married?
Wow, God sure is selfish if s/he wants you to focus on him/her all the time... I'm sorry, but I have my own problems to deal with besides focusing on that needy, clingy, bitch/bastard.
Second, perhaps if you love someone enough, you would marry them... And perhaps you would like to wait a few years to have children so you can give them a better life. But I guess that is selfish as that takes away from god's needy hour.
So what you're saying is that in God's perfect world, no one would ever get married *or* have children, so they could spend all their time fawning over Him?
Great idea. Let's get all the fundies on board!
Er, wait - so if married people don't have any children of their own but focus on children, that's still okay? So homosexuals should be able to marry AND adopt! Yay! I like this person. Or I would, if I thought she meant to say that.
<< We have a word for people who stay single because they are so focused on children. >>
Missy: Would that word be "priest"?
;^D
"if you marry without wanting to have children, then it just seems selfish and self-centered and taking attention away from God."
Because CLEARLY God doesn't get enough attention.
What is he, the toe-headed red-head middle child?
Even if you don't have children of your own, there should still be a focus on children
Pedobear wholeheartedly agrees with that! (but otherwise he still thinks you're a cunt. He also wants to know if you're related to shota tiger )
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"if you marry without wanting to have children, then it just seems selfish and self-centered and taking attention away from God."
But if god is such a whiny, needy little bitch clamoring for constant attention, isn't there a good chance he'll get jealous when Mr. and Mrs. Married-Fundy have a baby? After all, he was always killing babies (and other people, and even animals and plants) in the Holey Babble, so we already know he's like a homicidal two-year old with a baaaad case of sibling rivalry. Nah, not worth the risk.
No, tygerkittn.
What Paul said what that you should get married if you can't resist the temptation to stick your dick in a warm body.
See 1 Corinthians 7:9 if you don't believe me. You DO know how to find a verse in the Bible, don't you? Oh, wait, that's right, you're a Fundamentalist Christian, you've probably never cracked open a Bible in your life.
Conclusion, those who marry unbarren or at an age where is dubious they can have children are selfish. And those who are single should start adopting children ASAP?. Now, please, explain to me what is the crime of being an unmarried mother.
I say, Stay single and adopt someone else's kid!
Then raise them with better sense than this particular breeder seems to have.
"Even if you don't have children of your own, there should still be a focus on children"
Not everyone likes kids or enjoys being around them. (And some people who do like kids shouldn't be allowed anywhere near them! Pervy priests, anyone?)
If kids or god are my only two choices, I think my partner and I shall stay happily unmarried, thank you, tygerkittn.
Who's more selfish: the couple who decides they don't want children, or the couple who has children they don't care about and can't care for, screwing up those children for life, to fulfill their own wants? Or, worse yet, what other people want?
So tell me, tygerkittn (and this is the question I ask all those who accuse me of being "too selfish to have children"): What noble purpose inspired you to procreate? Was it the desire to raise and guide a human being along the road to realizing its own personhood? Hah, of course not. It's all about ensuring the immortality of your (probably substandard) genes, free labour, and having someone weaker than you to indoctrinate and push around.
Because I don't have children of my own, I have time and resources to help people their parents didn't bother with. I'm cleaning up your messes, bitch... show some respect!
Paul was a fucking lunatic, but, unlike a lot of the characters in that pathetic work of fiction, he seems to have actually existed.
because God is your baby and the church is your day-care visits.
It's your analogy, Gods need a lot of attention, pandering to and reassuring, apparently.
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