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I'd say the connection is the other way. No father. Psych damage, Kid grows up to be a murderer. Sad, but it happens. According to Wikipedia, 27 per 1,000 blacks were victims of violent crime. Not nearly enough to account for the staggering numbers. I'd say a lot of black men are definitely making the choice to abandon their children, as awful as it sounds.

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Low drug rates. Good. But my understanding was that heroin wasn't exactly recreational drug of choice. Marijuana and meth are bound to be higher. In any case, one of fifty people has done heroin? That's still decently high in my book.

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I didn't say people decided that Word of God. I meant that God, or the Israelites for secularists, put down seemingly arbitrary rules simply to set themselves apart from pagans around them. Did the rules change? Yes. But if God set down the rules with the full intention that he'd relax them later with my man JC. It reminds me of the time he told Abraham to kill Isaac. Obviously he never intended to go through with it, so he couldn't be called a waffler.

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Morality doesn't change. No one argues that slavery and witch burnings were once moral, only they just thought they were moral actions. That isn't changing morality. In fact, the reasons that those things stopped taking place is because we slowly realized they were immoral.