Look, those miracles of Moses opening the Red Sea and Jesus walking on water was documented few hundreds years ago when people didn't even know what is gravity. And if you can travel in time machine and shoot them with a gun, the act would be recorded as an act of miracle by the future generation. That is, if they can avoid exaggerating, which is what all historians are prone to.
Look, how long has this been argued? God, in my opinion, like the number I in math, is simply an figment of imagination in humans to explain the unexplainable or to simply derive comfort that someone is out there to look after us. Which is kind of feeble considering all the sins in the world. And if there was a god, or at the very least a creator, would he even bother whether it was being worshiped or not?
Look, how much does it take right now to send a probe to mars? How much did the ISS take? Millions if not billions. Instead of chucking stuff that fails half the time, why not spend the money in developing an economically viable engine or reducing green house gas emissions?
As our most dependent fuel oil is running out within possibly this century. Humanity is facing risk of using one of the most potentially dangerous energy ,nuclear. Cases of nuclear failure such as chernobyle and pennsylvenia have proved that it is disruptive force capable of ruinning our enviroment but they also proved that the nature is very much capable of recovering in quite short time. Leading developed nations like that of France and UK is now working on a fail prove method to insure safety while at the same time already making use of it. With progress of nuclear developments across the Atlantic it is time America, China and other industrial nations to ditch chernobyle's nigtmare and take positive views on one of the greenest energy man has ever discovered.
Then are you saying that as long as it was in self defense or in attempt to help the others (like the "great" job the US is doing in Afghanistan combating terrorists whose number increased even more after they came), violence can be justified? But then, if you are a murderer (for the sake of this scenario) and someone shoots you, wouldn't you shoot him back and think your action had been perfectly justified? As long as your argument is valid of course.
Well but if a criminal has already been put to jail and he is sentenced for few years in jail after offences like rape or alleged manslaughter, don't the people have the right to know who the criminals are and be aware? And also, can "further unnecessary and unwanted publicity" be worse than what the criminal may have done?
Nuclear weapons should't be abolished as it keeps the government in check. For one, no government would lightly try to nuke another nation when they know that the other countries can to the same thing to them. In addition, weapons with less fatality rates mean more wars. A typical example would be the first and the second world war. Even after horrors of the first world war, Germany started another war after less than two decades.