Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.
MobyI guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up. But a part of it is I also never felt much of a connection to the world in which I lived while I was growing up, and so, oddly enough, I think I felt a lot more connected to the worlds that I read about in science fiction.
MobyA vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children.
MobyAnd if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
Moby