Though I don't speak the language, I find Tokyo superior to New York in many ways. Proabably first and foremost due to crime rates...
I definitely think hardcore Christianity to the point where if you think God is telling you to kill yourself or someone else is incredibly harmful to society at large. I don't know how you could deny the threat it poses.
No, I honestly don't believe the state has the right to take the life of someone. Also, giving someone the dealth penalty instead of giving them a life sentence is in a way an easy way out. But I'm not ingoring the fact it takes decades for those convicted to actually be put to death due to appeals and so on.
Not all atheists are okay with abortion. Plenty consider themselves secular humanists and are against abortion precisely for the reasons Christians are against it.
Atheists, or anyone who is in favor of abortion, likely doesn't believe life starts at conception, hence they don't consider it murder because there is no life actually being taken. It really depends who you're talking to. Everyone has a slightly different view on this sensitive subject.
I find it interesting that it seems if not for their religion, many religious people (I don't mean to generalize) would see no problem with killing someone else. I honestly think in the end it depends on the individual person in question, but if you need religion to give you morals, then I would say you were less moral than those who have morals without religion.
Well, threatening such flowery things like that is definitely going to help you succeed in converting everyone to Christianity.
In order to support a theocracy, I'd have to support the Bible, and I don't believe a word of it.
Yes, but many weren't at the same time. Many of them were deists and if they were Christians they weren't devout followers of their claimed religious orientation.
Though the vast majority of the citizens of our country are Christian, we are not a Christian nation. God is mentioned nowhere in the Constitution and plenty of our Founding Fathers weren't Christian, either.
Yes, of course I understand that. My original argument was very vague, I know.
That's an interesting argument but the bible is filled to the brim with misogyny... It's pretty obvious the Christian God is male.
Instagram is a lot simpler. Facebook has so much noise and is so public it's just a headache every time I log on (which is pretty much never).
It definitely has a monopoly. Big Religion has an even larger influence on society than the cronies on Wall Street or any other industry.
No, I think you'll here more sinister things coming from the right. Just look at what the TEA Party is screaming.
Both are equally corrupt, but the Republicans are more dangerous due to the fact they're positions often lack basis in reality or this century. I'll take whatever the Dems are pandering to over the religious crazies and the Koch Brothers.
Probably history, mainly because the main topics are the American Revolution and Civil War. Most history classes until you get to high school stop after Civil War reconstruction. Most of that isn't very helpful if you want to know about how America got to where it is today.
Honestly CNN is the most impartial news station that's not completely boring. FOX has an obvious conservative bias and regularly distorts facts. You can say CNN has a liberal bias, but it doesn't take more than a few minutes in a history textbook to find that reality has a pretty clear liberal bias.
