Wisegeek01:
Bro it's wrong oo o,

There are Billions of other cute ladies out there, in diffrent shapes and sizes

And it's ur cousin you want to date (possibly marry) and u tryna justify yourself,

I know u are problably joking*

but if u mean it, nd u still want to go ahead with ur Ideas, u don't need anyone's permission here on NL, Na ur bizness ooo

*washes hand*

Lankaline:





wow,,,was there last week,,,i always stop there(oguta junction) when goin to ma villa,,(amiri),,,,,we r from same road,,,but not cousin-wise,,lolz

Benard94:
hmmm...search your bible very well

chimerase2:
oh just shut up
Wich kind of useless view do u want him to view ua useless post
Wat is even wrong with the mentality of some pple gon self
Is ur cousin not ur sista

donroxy:
how you come about einstein as your moniker is baffling to me :

INDIFFERENCE is english which implies ''I don't care'' whether you marry your cousin or you don't marry your cousin !

How you interpreted my ''indifference'' to implied I allow cousin marrying makes me to call the einstein behind your moniker to question !!

If you ask me whether I would do it : I will tell you NO but I won't condemn others who do it thus i'm INDIFFERENCE to it .... It is neither right nor wrong to me : it is what it is :

cousin marrying cousin !

Benard94:
There is this raging arguement in my area as to if one could date/marry his/her cousin. Some stood frankly against it while others saw no crack in it. Apart, what is the measure of closeness where one could restrict dating? Is cousin-dating ethical?

rollykotex:
I just asked someone in my office,and the person was so offended that u said islam allows that.He needs that verse of the quoran that supports it

einsteino:
you still dont get it, in the context being indifferent doesnt absolve you. there is no neither wrong nor right in this case. it is like a case of true or false, there is no middle grounds. in logic when you are indifferent in such a scenario it automatically means you are in favour of that which is perceived as the greater evil, it is just how it is. i know that wasnt what you meant, that was why I tried bringing it to your attention what your statement implies in logic.

also as to einstein being my moniker, it is actually my legal name i didn't beg for it and like shakespare said "that which is called a rose would still smell as sweet if called by another name". It is amazing how easy it is for people to sit behind a computer and insult someone at the least chance they get, i bet it would be a lot harder to do that if we were having a face to face conversation i still wonder what was provocative in my previous comment that you had to condescend to such.

google1:
abomination

Benard94:
There is this raging arguement in my area as to if one could date/marry his/her cousin. Some stood frankly against it while others saw no crack in it. Apart, what is the measure of closeness where one could restrict dating? Is cousin-dating ethical?

charlsecy:

Stop lying, or saying what you wrongly think is true without verification. The Bible does not forbid cousin marriages. Such a marriage is not allowed in my community, anyway, but don't say what is contrary to the words in the Bible.

rezy15:

no debate blindly. Abraham no marry im sister ? Issac no tym im sister too?

Umennajiego:
The Bible does not forbid marrying your cousin so let's make sure in our zeal to help others that we don't confuse what our culture teaches with what the Bible teaches.

Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Leviticus 18 lists the forbidden relationships and cousins are not forbidden nor is cousin marriage forbidden anywhere else in the Bible.

God may have chosen your cousin for you and if He chose him it would be a sin to walk away from this. There is no evidence that there is a significant increase in birth defects when cousins marry. The preferred marriage among the Israelites was cousin to cousin marriage and Jews to this day have an average I.Q. of over 120 with the highest population of Geniuses in the world. Ever hear of Einstein?

Both Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin married their first cousins. If such scientists as these had no fear of "defects" in their children then you should not. Their children were all healthy and bright. However, if you're really stupid and your cousin is really stupid then there is a much higher chance that your children will be really stupid. Is there room for a little humor here?

The fact is that cousin marriage was banned by the Roman Catholic church under 'Pope Gregory I' in an attempt to prevent the accumulation of wealth and power within families. The popes saw wealth among the common man as competition for their own power. This power structure exists in the Philippines to this day and is hampering economic development. The ban had nothing to do with our Bibles which we read regularly, don't we?

Civil disobedience has a long history within the Christian community. You've all heard of people power. When the people gathered by the thousands outside of Malacanang to oust Marcos that was against the law. Was it a sin? No. If you must go to another province or state to marry your cousin so that nobody will report you then that is what you must do. Will that be against the law? Maybe. Is it a sin? No. This is not unheard of in the Philippines, The United States, and many other countries where Born Again Christians live in sufficient numbers to make such laws of no effect. I know of such a couple in the Philippines and they live happily to this day. They're now in their 60s with 5 children and many grandchildren. They're born again of course because it is the pope who forbids cousin marriage, not the Bible.

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