(December 5, 2017 at 7:12 am)Starhunter Wrote:Well some ideals are obviously better than others. If you think we should let god run everything, then a theocracy is what you're recommending. There is a reason having one person call all the shots doesn't work. Because one person can't be trusted with full power over an entire population. Case in point, Yahweh's solution to just about everything seems to involve killing people, which obviously hasn't solved Humanity's problems.(December 4, 2017 at 10:26 am)Chad32 Wrote: Do I really have to argue that a secular democracy is better than a theocratic dictatorship? As if these kinds of things haven't been tested before, and one doesn't prove substantially better for Humanity than the other? You have admitted that the world is pretty ok right now. You just seem to give credit to your deity for this, despite the best places in the world being somewhat socialist, with very little power in the hands of theocrats.
Sure, theocracy never worked, it could have, but it didn't. We could say the same about any ideal.
The new communism, is almost global...it works for a large class of society. I wouldn't recommend a religious government, it's wrong.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html