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Owned by Ransom - Created on 12/17/2003 - Never edited  12/25/06 :: Folder :: Government & Politics11/01/05 :: Folder :: Society & Culture11/01/05 :: Folder :: Religion12/18/03 :: Article :: Marriage answers from Ransom :: My answers to Unordained's questions on marriage12/01/03 :: Folder :: Marriage 01/16/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Weekly Standard - Marriage Defeatists 12/01/03 :: Quote :: Abraham Lincoln
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness o [...] 07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: United States divorce statistics07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: World-wide divorce statistics12/17/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Christian Research Institute - Rape, Marriage, and the Significance of Sex: Why Traditional Values Matter  12/17/03 :: Article :: Marriage answers from Ensis. :: longwinded answers to questions posed by Unordained 11/06/05 :: Article :: Why should christians be surprised? :: 08/13/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Queer 'Aye' for Marriage 11/21/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Focus on the Family's review of Bruce Almighty09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mae WestMarriage is a great institution -- but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. 06/02/04 :: Quote :: Lao-TzuA leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
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The difference between a fool and an atheist is that a fool scoffs at things he doesn't know he doesn't understand, and an atheist scoffs at things he knows he doesn't understand.
:) I'll work on it. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]Jones' First Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress -- in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution. 07/05/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Unmarried.org06/11/04 :: Article :: The sky is about to fall on our heads! :: ... or wondering why some people are obsessed with getting to the end of the world.03/15/09 :: Article :: God's Will :: My Take on how "God's Will" is used by christians02/14/05 :: Article :: Having a reason for laws :: Because I said so!01/20/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: How can you consider yourselves Christians when you are also gay? |
