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Victor, my son, the biggest issue with poor Tom, and maybe you, is his special microscope to discover what is bad in religion so he can trumpet this “discovery” to the world. He only gathers “facts” that support his opinion; he ignores everything else.
While blathering about the “evils” of religion, Tom disregards the enormous good deeds churches, ministers, clergy, and self-sacrificing priests, have performed for hundreds of years. If there exists no dirt, no problem; Tom invents it! He denigrates Mother Teresa and claims Albert Schweitzer was an atheist! What do the good works of Mother Teresa and Dr. Schweitzer have to do with religion, other than she was a nun and he was a missionary?
The issue is not religion, it is helping others, and these people are known for their selfless compassion for the poor and mankind, in general. What kind of person would invent ill against good people? Even sadder are the one-sided presentations of secular history. I have no quarrel with Tom being an atheist; everyone has to be something. Tom has redundantly complained about the Crusades and cited the many people butchered during the Crusades in his effort to denigrate religion. So far his only evidence against religion seems to be the Crusades and some bad priests.
Most history seems to agree that approximately 5-6 million total Christians, Muslims and others, died from all causes during the Crusades. Remember, this includes all sides in the conflict. Tom can disparage religion for hours, citing these facts. No one disputes the historical record; however, Tom conveniently fails to address the over 100 million innocent deaths as a result of general world-wide atheist genocide. If Tom were a fair man, he would be screaming against the crimes of atheism, not those who died during the Crusades. Also, those waging evil in the name of God do not represent God, just like wolves in sheepskins do not represent sheep.
As always, Tom is selective about data. One can find data supporting any opinion they wish, but in any debate, the rules specify a fair playing field. Liberal US universities, like Cornell, UC Berkley, UC Santa Cruz, Georgetown, New York University, etc., have produced some of the most ridiculous and absurd studies known to man. One reason, 72% of all college professors are liberal (communistic leanings) by political association, as a results of years of infiltration by the left, causing America to be dumber than ever before. We admit this; however liberal professors conducting false and skewed “research” does not change actual truth, just as attacking Mother Teresa does not make her a bad person.
Accepting false information from twisted "studies" does not eliminate the high price of implementing the incredibly bad wisdom they promote, including the premise of Tom’s post. People still die of sexually transmitted diseases, woman still get pregnant and raise their children alone, families are torn apart by cheating spouses and children’s lives are ruined, some people develop physical issues that often cost them everything, porn stars still commit suicide or suffer extreme emotional trauma the rest of their lives. The psychological issues are probably more profound than the physical, but the physical alone are enormous. Research like this Cornell “study” do not account for emotional trauma, and "anything goes" proponents ignore the carnage caused by their advice. Tom will not even admit that porn stars die at an alarmingly high rate, compared to the general population. He has an excuse why everything that could become a serious disaster is ok in practice! Evidence does not support this conclusion.
The reason religion becomes a subject for discussion is that there is a clear correlation between religion and morality. Morality is one thing that protects society from anarchy, as well as other evils. Anarchy has never proven to be a benefit to anyone; morality has. The morality of NOT having “casual sex” with multiple partners has been a proven protection from all sorts of societal ills. I feel Slavic women possess a higher esteem for morals than many others. Maybe this is another reason foreign men so quickly fall in love with Slavic women. The few male proponents of the posted question have a desire for sex with any and all women who will lay down for them, but ask them whom the wish to marry and take home to their mother; not usually the same girls.
Someone asked me why I write these remarks here on the site? Society promotes a loose morality that is slowing consuming those who adapt to it. This is a lie. They say it’s all good; meanwhile psychology has become one of the biggest medical explosions in the world. Why? We didn’t even have psychology many years ago and society was much more stable…back when moral absolutes were more accepted.
The absence of moral and spiritual absolutes has an enormous price which Western movies and TV do not reveal. Western culture, in the name of money, promotes a sleazy portrayal of things that are truly quite wonderful and fulfilling. The most incredible social messes in America are found in Hollywood, California; the direct result of an absence of morality. I write to remind others that our culture lies to us and says bad things are good…and that good things are bad! Bad things cause bad results, and sometimes those results are devastating. Doing good things usually brings about much more beneficial results. My father used to say, “Don’t do the wrong things and expect to get the right results.” This has worked for me…when I used it.
While blathering about the “evils” of religion, Tom disregards the enormous good deeds churches, ministers, clergy, and self-sacrificing priests, have performed for hundreds of years. If there exists no dirt, no problem; Tom invents it! He denigrates Mother Teresa and claims Albert Schweitzer was an atheist! What do the good works of Mother Teresa and Dr. Schweitzer have to do with religion, other than she was a nun and he was a missionary?
The issue is not religion, it is helping others, and these people are known for their selfless compassion for the poor and mankind, in general. What kind of person would invent ill against good people? Even sadder are the one-sided presentations of secular history. I have no quarrel with Tom being an atheist; everyone has to be something. Tom has redundantly complained about the Crusades and cited the many people butchered during the Crusades in his effort to denigrate religion. So far his only evidence against religion seems to be the Crusades and some bad priests.
Most history seems to agree that approximately 5-6 million total Christians, Muslims and others, died from all causes during the Crusades. Remember, this includes all sides in the conflict. Tom can disparage religion for hours, citing these facts. No one disputes the historical record; however, Tom conveniently fails to address the over 100 million innocent deaths as a result of general world-wide atheist genocide. If Tom were a fair man, he would be screaming against the crimes of atheism, not those who died during the Crusades. Also, those waging evil in the name of God do not represent God, just like wolves in sheepskins do not represent sheep.
As always, Tom is selective about data. One can find data supporting any opinion they wish, but in any debate, the rules specify a fair playing field. Liberal US universities, like Cornell, UC Berkley, UC Santa Cruz, Georgetown, New York University, etc., have produced some of the most ridiculous and absurd studies known to man. One reason, 72% of all college professors are liberal (communistic leanings) by political association, as a results of years of infiltration by the left, causing America to be dumber than ever before. We admit this; however liberal professors conducting false and skewed “research” does not change actual truth, just as attacking Mother Teresa does not make her a bad person.
Accepting false information from twisted "studies" does not eliminate the high price of implementing the incredibly bad wisdom they promote, including the premise of Tom’s post. People still die of sexually transmitted diseases, woman still get pregnant and raise their children alone, families are torn apart by cheating spouses and children’s lives are ruined, some people develop physical issues that often cost them everything, porn stars still commit suicide or suffer extreme emotional trauma the rest of their lives. The psychological issues are probably more profound than the physical, but the physical alone are enormous. Research like this Cornell “study” do not account for emotional trauma, and "anything goes" proponents ignore the carnage caused by their advice. Tom will not even admit that porn stars die at an alarmingly high rate, compared to the general population. He has an excuse why everything that could become a serious disaster is ok in practice! Evidence does not support this conclusion.
The reason religion becomes a subject for discussion is that there is a clear correlation between religion and morality. Morality is one thing that protects society from anarchy, as well as other evils. Anarchy has never proven to be a benefit to anyone; morality has. The morality of NOT having “casual sex” with multiple partners has been a proven protection from all sorts of societal ills. I feel Slavic women possess a higher esteem for morals than many others. Maybe this is another reason foreign men so quickly fall in love with Slavic women. The few male proponents of the posted question have a desire for sex with any and all women who will lay down for them, but ask them whom the wish to marry and take home to their mother; not usually the same girls.
Someone asked me why I write these remarks here on the site? Society promotes a loose morality that is slowing consuming those who adapt to it. This is a lie. They say it’s all good; meanwhile psychology has become one of the biggest medical explosions in the world. Why? We didn’t even have psychology many years ago and society was much more stable…back when moral absolutes were more accepted.
The absence of moral and spiritual absolutes has an enormous price which Western movies and TV do not reveal. Western culture, in the name of money, promotes a sleazy portrayal of things that are truly quite wonderful and fulfilling. The most incredible social messes in America are found in Hollywood, California; the direct result of an absence of morality. I write to remind others that our culture lies to us and says bad things are good…and that good things are bad! Bad things cause bad results, and sometimes those results are devastating. Doing good things usually brings about much more beneficial results. My father used to say, “Don’t do the wrong things and expect to get the right results.” This has worked for me…when I used it.