144000 is just another random number from the bible. The bible is bad at things, like accuracy. That's all I'm referring to there.
If I had homosexual parents, I'm pretty damn sure I wouldn't care if the care I received was the same. I was raised by a single parent anyways, so yeah.
Rape is natural- competition for mates and resources is basic nature. By raping, males generally avoid competition and produce offspring anyhow, though males tend to safeguard their females and prevent this.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/15/books/what-provokes-a-rapist-to-rape-scientists-debate-notion-of-an-evolutionary-drive.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
BTW, Dr. Thornhill was my human sexuality class instructor. That book it mentions has long been published now and as distasteful as the idea is, rape has occurred very often in the history of humanity and other animals as well. Just because a thing is natural, doesn't by default make it good. This example proves this point perfectly. BTW, your jeans are evil because they aren't natural. Almost everything we encounter isn't natural. Do you think sidwalks are natural, that they just grow out of the ground for our convenience? Nearly everything in our everyday lives have been manipulated from the natural state of things to make them more beneficial to us. Jeans, computers, phones... like I said, just about everything.
Polygamy- mulitple spouses, or multiple mates if you will, is quite common throughout nature and human history as well. Polygamy is found everywhere in the bible. Take my namesake Jacob, for example. He married his cousin Rachel as well as his sister, and if you really read the bible, biblical figures had many children by their wives and slaves and servants.
If the old testament that Jesus pretty much died to nullify has no effect anymore, why is it still preserved and taught by the church?
What is 'normal' is absolutely relative. It used to be normal for countries to go to war with swords, shields, axes, bows and arrows and rape and conquer and steal whatever wealth could be carried off. Is that normal now? Riding around in cars is pretty normal now. Didn't used to be. Normal is simply how often something is seen/done. And that is changing every day.