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Is incest a sin? If you are representative of my primary audience you are probably saying �no.� Nothing is a sin. Sin isn�t a thing. However, think about it from a believer�s perspective...is incest a sin? I did a small, informal poll and 9 out of 10 Christians believe incest is a sin. That means one of two things to the Christian faith in particular. Let�s look at the possibilities. Either God has set up at least two situations in which his creations had to sin in order to not go extinct. Of course, I�m referencing Adam and Eve giving birth to children who then had to have sex with either each other or their parents and Noah and his nuclear family who faced the same choice. The only moral thing to do for our ancestors, from the Christian perspective, was to let the species die off. In fact, since both times the need for incest applied to all but the most asexually reproducing creatures, they all had to sin or die. Or Incest is a sin now, but wasn�t in Adam�s and Noah�s time. This gets...

When I started Deity Shmeity my intension was to use it as a record of my exchanges with theists. Long time readers know that never really happened. My first attempt to publish a debate resulted in so much editing that I concluded my time was better spent taking the topic discussed and simply writing an article informed by the theistic objections. Why so much editing, you might ask? Well, debates, especially those on-line, have a way of branching off into new topics before the previous are resolved. Like the Hydra of mythology and Marvel comics, chopping off one head of a crappy argument just results in two more crappy arguments taking it�s place--all without an acknowledgment that the first head lies resting at my feet. More so, debates get personal. I don�t just mean they get all ad-hominemy, although that certainly happens, but also that elements from both my and the theist�s lives are brought up which I feel are either too intimate to post or too irrelevant to make public. Top tha...