RE: USA Bible Belt
November 17, 2016 at 7:21 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2016 at 8:05 am by Fake Messiah.)
(October 4, 2016 at 9:40 am)mcolafson Wrote: I assume that in comparison with other Americans Biblebelters are slender (as they are more religious they are not affected by the sin of gluttony) and they are more prosperous because they work harder than the rest of Americans, (that's in the proverbs that you will be prosperous if you work hard) and because the Lord gives them financial Wisdom.
Of course there are some exceptions, but these people are either atheists or agnostics.
Very few Bible-belters take drugs (only some atheists and agnostics).
Their mental health is also better, because they are more religious.
Bible Belters actually fail in all those categories. Let me repeat there is more drugs, more STDs, more teen pregnancies, more violent crimes, more hate, people live less, people are less educated and have more gluttony in Bible Belt states then the rest of USA.
Now is that because God is testing them? Or they worship wrong God and real God (Krishna?) punishes them because they even have worse weather problems (like hurricanes) then the rest? Or there is no God and by living on ancient way of life they are worsening their lives and well being.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"