@ThePainefulTruth Said
Can't remember the last time I heard that last one. Look how much the influence of religion has diminished in just the last 50 years.
In the republican party, the influence of religion has increased due to the increased threat perceived from the rise of atheism/agnosticism and the loss of church attendances. The democratic party has the lower amount of christian faithfuls which are biblical literalists, if there are any at all. You can thank the "Moral Majority" foolishness for that peculiar twist of fate.
I sense that in this particular subject, you are aligned with democratic liberals. Am I correct?
@ThePainefulTruth Said
The way I'm looking at it is (and so is DM I'm sure) top priority is to save the country first, then we can take on those small minorities (some of them have valid points though) who are nowhere near the threat Obamaism is in the immediate future. If they keep to themselves we'll all be fine. At least the Tea Partiers and conservatives and libertarians are up front about who they are. Dems have to hide it, which is why the media is so vital to them. Conservitarians use what media they have to get the Truth out.
To save the country would be an immense task, however this does not alter the fact that people who cannot acknowledge simple reality will have an even more difficult time repairing it.
Those who cannot acknowledge that Abstinence-only does not work cannot fix birth rate and poor minority/homeless childre problems
Those who cannot acknowledge that Obama is an American citizen cannot perceive how to correct the immigration problem
Those who cannot acknowledge that Climate-change or at least ecological stewardship is important cannot fix the agriculture debacles of subsidies and Monsanto'ism
Those who cannot acknowledge that the USA is based and built as a secular nation with tolerance towards sectarian stupidity cannot hope to create a solution to "Shariah" scares, or marriage equality, or abortion, or birth control or anything else that has a religious tint to it.
If you cannot acknowledge reality, you cannot fix it
@ThePainefulTruth Said
Abortion is the real problem but neither side has a decent handle on that, just back off the extremism. I've said for a long time my biggest worry from the right is blind faith in a literal Bible. But those people are fading away in the face of our exponentially growing knowledge. Even here, its defenders are as clueless as the Left and its Government Tit Church.
Abortion isn't a problem. Simply make a program where any pubescent girl can have a Norplant which will last for 5 or 10 years. Have it for free. Its cheaper to give a 13 year old a 100 dollar Norplant than to spend the next 18 years with a teen having a baby on welfare of an unloved kid turning into a criminal and being in prison for the next 50 years.
Moral Majorities do not see reality. They see only their own ideologies which have no real world application or basis
The numbers of abortions will drop immediately and precipitously. The ONLY reason we have abortion issues is because the "Moral Majority" fools want childbirth to exist as punishment for sex. Why? Because they are hung up about sex. Always have been and always will be.
And by the way, why did you cross out my statements?