(April 2, 2015 at 2:05 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:Yep and that is yet another reason while I love my well intended liberal theist and atheist friends on the left, it is nuts to let every claim a religious person might say go.(April 2, 2015 at 1:31 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
Yep, the west is civil because of secular law, if you took that away it would not take Christianity that long to regress back into it's prior barbarity. And we still see the effects of religion in our right wing and homophobia.
The west became civil in spite of religion, not because of it.
I'm surprised this isn't obvious to more people. It should be when you consider the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades and then look our modern nut jobs like Pat Robertson.
If you use "never" as a tactic to keep the peace, and even ban cussing and blasphemy because someone might get offended, weeds like Pat Robertson grow.
We already have a hard enough time trying to get this country into the 21rst century and away from its bigoted past. I wish my fellow liberals would get angry at the right people instead of getting angry at those who are angry at the right people.
