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Originally Posted by lakritze
...criminal "president" who has opened the door wide for these religious NUTS to change the landscape to THEIR way of thinking.... Let the people who love DEMOCRACY turn this into our favour.
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The wonderful thing about Democracy is that Everyone has a voice. The bad thing about Democracy is that Everyone has a voice. There are opinions on both sides of this issue. Lakritze has one, I have another.
I believe that since we began systematically removing God from our society -- from the schools, the courts, the public places -- we have seen a tremendous growth in the amount of violence and disregard for human life. Kids have always brought weapons to school -- I can remember as a young middle-school student comparing pocket knives with the other kids and carving little figures during recess. Sure, there were occasions where one child would cut or even stab another, but by and large, there was respect for others. Now there are police and armed guards patrolling our schools and there are kids bring handguns, riffles and shotguns to school with the sole purpose of hurting and killing as many others as possible.
What changed? We changed. We said we didn't need God and didn't need to "influence" our children with "all that religious nonsense". You know, things like "Do to others as you would have them do to you", or "love one another", or "honor your father and mother". Where did those come from? From the Bible. From God's Word.
Does that mean I think the "religious right" has all the right answers? Well, no. Is the "liberal left" all a bunch of crazy lunatics? Well, maybe
. But the answer is somewhere in the middle. Lakritze mentioned "tolerance". Well, tolerance works both ways. Answers to most complex questions are almost never at the extremes, but usually somewhere in the middle.
That's my $0.02 worth.
-Soundman