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Submitted by Phil Owen on Mon, 07/24/2006 - 1:41am.
I did a little "googling" tonight, and found some very interesting information from this website:
» Divorce rates among Christian groups: The slogan: "The family that prays together, stays together" is well known. There has been much anecdotal evidence that has led to "unsubstantiated claims that the divorce rate for Christians who attended church regularly, pray together or who meet other conditions is only 1 or 2 percent". A recent study by the Barna Research Group throws extreme doubt on these estimates. They had interviewed 3,854 adults from the 48 contiguous states. The survey found: 1. 11% of the adult population is currently divorced. 2. 25% of adults have had at least one divorce during their lifetime. 3. Divorce rates among conservative Christians were significently higher than for other faith groups, and for Atheists and Agnostics. An additional breakdown of numbers: (percent who have been divorced) Non-denominational (small conservative groups; independents) 34%, Baptists 29%, Mainline Protestants 25%, Mormons 24%, Catholics 21%, Lutherans 21% I also found a very interesting NY Times article here. Now somebody tell me, cause I'm REALLY curious, just why it is that conservatives claim to be "defending" marriage from... gays?
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It is like the old jokes about the Soviet Union
Submitted by Crenshaw Sepulveda on Mon, 07/24/2006 - 7:46am."I would make it impossible for the covetous and avaricious to utterly impoverish the poor. The rich can take care of themselves."
^@^
That's easy...
Submitted by DrewHendricks on Mon, 07/24/2006 - 8:58am.Some of this has to do with the nature of the religion. I think you have to be especially gullible to accept the tenets of the Christian religion - and I've always seen it as a kind of death cult which denies that death really exists.* Certainly this is a recipe for strange, unconscious behavior.
*(Death will not take me if I have faith and ask God/Jesus to forgive me, but I will have dominion over the Earth, permitting my society to end life as we know it through nuclear war, biological disaster, or simple direct genocide).
Hey, before you flame me remember that most Christians are NOT zealots, and that most of human culture has silly aspects to it - self-contradictory bits which when viewed from the outside seem silly, but are nevertheless core parts of legitimate social norms. And yes, you have the right to your death cult, you nutcase. Just don't try to take me down with you, or I'll cut the ropes binding us together...
Don't worry Drew, I won't
Submitted by Phil Owen on Mon, 07/24/2006 - 12:21pm.WhooYooCallinANutcase?
Submitted by DrewHendricks on Tue, 08/01/2006 - 1:06pm.I believe that the HIV theory of AIDS is a clever cover story and AIDS is actually a binary biological weapon designed to depopulate Africa. That's definitely a wingnutty position to take, but there you go. After October of 2001, it sounds pretty sane and measured...
Of course, I subscribe to the "conspiracy" theory of history, rather than the "coincidence" theory of history. That also qualifies me as a wingnut.
And last, but not least: Chemtrails are real. The government can spy on you using orbital microwave beams, shot right through your roof, and hear everything in your house by decoding what bounces back to their surveillance platforms (which could be a satellite, an elint or an unmanned airplane, or a van parked down the street). These two phenomena, chemtrails and microwave bugging, might actually be aspects of the same phenomenon (what if the chemtrails block microwave beams?).
Having recently been called a "baby killer"....
Submitted by jlw on Mon, 07/24/2006 - 2:01pm.