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Except soviet union i guess
Can you please describe a Christian extremist for me?
Provide said evidence of miraculous events and I will agree with youNo, I didn't. Otherwise, I would've stated that.
Anything else?
Don't take my word for it, read for yourself.Provide said evidence of miraculous events and I will agree with you
That seems to be commonplace around here lately. Canadians and Euros discussing American politics.TS isn't even from the US.
Someone who believe there is such a thing as a righteous war.
Our morals evolved over the past 45 billion years...or was that 50 billion???
I am saying compared to the 1980s we as human beings a much smarter these days.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)released the results of its 2015 global rankings on student performance in mathematics, reading, and science, on the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA.
The PISA is a worldwide exam administered every three years that measures 15-year-olds in 72 countries. About 540,000 students took the exam in 2015.
The US saw an 11-point drop in average score for math, while remaining relatively flat in reading and science.
Religion aside, I don't know if I can agree with this. Internet has made knowledge so readily available that less and less people focus on learning meaningful information. Instead they waste their time on pop culture, and reference Google for knowledge they lack.
Look at what the last PISA test scored US internationally (http://www.businessinsider.com/pisa-worldwide-ranking-of-math-science-reading-skills-2016-12)
IMO, we're getting dumber. The 140 character limit on twitter has pretty much butchered the English language. Kids grow up thinking they do not need to understand mathematics because their iPhone has a calculator. And don't get me started on historical knowledge. I fully expect some history to be rewriten in the next few decades because of how little of it is taught.
People have even started believing the Earth is flat again! In the 80s these guys would have been the crazy dudes yelling on the street corner, today they get a youtube channel where they can brainwash teens.
I encourage you all to watch this through to the end whether you are an atheist, Christian or other. The piece touches on the constitution and why it only works so long as the majority maintain a moral, religious base grounded in Christianity (as even expressly talked about by founding fathers).
Again, worth the watch all the way through:
Because it was conquered and colonized by white Christians from Europe. The white christians then forced God down the throats of the natives, and black slaves.
You honestly need to watch some Dinesh D'Souza:
I encourage you all to watch this through to the end whether you are an atheist, Christian or other. The piece touches on the constitution and why it only works so long as the majority maintain a moral, religious base grounded in Christianity (as even expressly talked about by founding fathers).
Again, worth the watch all the way through:
"Christian nation" created by Masons...
Also is there anything more tyrannical than religion?
/thread mods please delete
I haven't watched that particular video (or maybe I did??) ; in anycase the problem with D'Souza is he resorts to soo much dam sophistry , instead of clear concise straighforward replies. That to me tells me he is trying to ( to use a term created by James Randi and later adopted by Michael Shermer in his argument against Depak Chopra ) 'woo woo' people.I'm honestly struggling to understand the logic. It seems so convoluted and forced.