"Thoughts and Prayers"

Couldn't we just as easily tie it to Global Warming or Climate Change?

 

I thought climate change was a religion.

 

They both are. The religion of income redistribution.

 

It's clearly correlated to Justin Beibers rise to fame.

 

Atheists will say lack of faith has no effect on morality.

 

I'm not very religious (I'd rather not get off in the weeds on that) but I agree.

God got killed (most people aren't religious anymore), nothing filled the vaccum, we now have no universal morality.

The other issue is the proliferation of cheap rifles after the sandy hook situation.

People were afraid of the Obama administration drafting new legislation. They didn't just buy guns, they bought them at a rate which caused the price of an ar to skyrocket so fast that everyone and their mother started making them.

Then they got cheap.

I don't know the numbers, but I'd guess there's at least ten times as many ar's in circulation now than before sandy hook, and that's a conservative guess.

 

I was reading something interesting the other day, I can't seem to recall the article but it was comparing/contrasting things like religion, militant veganism, atheism, etc etc.

It postulated that the human mind has an intrinsic desire to have a belief system of some kind....i.e. faith of some sort. Throughout history as you said that has traditionally been God. In more recent times people have been attempting to swap that out with their flavor of choice. It was interesting in the way they showed how some of the most ardent atheists seemed to exhibit the same traits as hardcore religious types, just from the other side of the fence. Basically NOT believing in something was their belief system, and they treat it very much that way.

Same thing with vegans, that a good number of them don't really care all that much about animals or the claim that its a superior diet, etc etc. It's a dogmatic belief system that they use to replace the void of not believing in any kind of faith (in this example it just happened to coincide that a large %age of vegan were also atheist). But essentially veganism had become their new religion, that their mind would convince them of anything to protect that ideology. Even in situations were that person was clearly suffering from deleterious health consequences from the diet (I'm convinced that due to genetic variance among all humans that some can do OK on a vegan diet whilst others very much cannot).

 

I definitely agree with that, and find it fascinating. Human beings have a fundamental need for a belief system. It can make us pretty vulnerable, but I think it's also part of our very nature, like searching for understanding is what brought us this far, but I digress.

 

This is what we’re missing. A unifying message.

 

faithful followers of Brother John Birch

 

Those hippies are today's leftist professors and businessmen
so it seems time has proved them to be correct.

 

Some of them are RightWing Wackk"Os who ain't smoked weed in 35yrs but still like the taste of Whiskey..

 

Jordan Peterson has some good lectures on the subject.

 

The debate series with Sam Harris is long (3 of 'em, 2 hrs each) but entertaining and thought provoking.

 

How come our thoughts and prayers are always for the victims, their families, the first responders, the children, etc. but NOT the shooters? After all, Jesus hung out with the sinners because they were in need of his services. Clearly these kids are also in need of his services.

 

And I belong to the Anticoh Baptist Church!