Originally posted by Paprika
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Nah, it's just the usual progressive shutting down of criticism of groups and policies which is labelled as 'hate speech'.
Nonsense, there's hardly any Christians trying to institute Mosaic Law, unlike Muslims with Sharia Law.
Man is potentially dangerous, whether he is claiming to follow the will of a god or just acting according with ideology (Hitler, Mao, etc.)
Both, actually.
The US is hardly Christian, and I don't recall conservatives opposing genuine education reform more than 'liberals' , and the opposition to Obamacare is because it sucks.
You're a moron. If a group of faithful Muslims are labelled (by themselves or others) as Christians, does that make them Christians? Of course not, so that's my point - there needs to be a more stringent criterion than the label.
My post goes unaddressed, and you ignore the very important factor of wealth: national well-being is unquestionably dependent on the wealth of the nation as a whole. Destructive and navel-gazing progressivism can hope to flourish precisely in a society where other factors ameliorate its destructiveness.
And that was not the 'progressiveness' I was criticising, so buzz off.
Nah, it's merely expressing through alternative means (as tone is not easily conveyed) that you're an idiot, amongst other things
You made other positive claims, moron.
I requested evidence supporting your assertion of “the existence of a source of all good and life”. So, where's the evidence please! I’m waiting.
The evil one works to kill and destroy?
Yersinia pestis, my good fellow.
Which explains why some of the foremost scientists were so religious - Newton wrote a tome on theology, for example.
Advances in science require a great deal of wealth and time invested; just coincidentally the Renaissance was a period of great wealth and patronage for intelligent men.
http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2...istianity.html
You're too kind, but and I'm not God, and the wars were fought in God's name.
It's also related to the wealth the nation possesses; if there's little wealth to be distributed then the HDI will suck even though the proposed distribution may be good.
I'm glad you agree the US is much more socioeconomically heterogeneous compared to the Nordic countries, so a direct comparison to compare ideology is hardly holding all relevant factors ceteris paribus. (By the way, the ghettoisation is linked to race.)
And ghettoisation is not just linked to race but to "a usually poor section of a city inhabited primarily by people of the same race, religion, or social background, often due to discrimination by the majority" - Oxford Dictionary.
That's IHDI.
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