Did you mean to say 98%? The consensus "poll" is a fraud. There were only about ~2000 scientists polled, roughly ~47 responded and 97% of those agreed in Climate Change. How can you call that a consensus?
Where in the hell do you think innovation comes from? Once you take away someone's ability to prosper from their own ideas, people will stop coming up with ideas. Not everyone, but a large majority. I guarantee it.
Pollution was a much larger problem in the earlier parts of the 20th century. They literally could light lakes on fire. Smog would not allow you to see very far, etc. Now, pollution is still a problem, but nowhere near what it used to be. It's getting better, but it needs help.
DDT is one...
Human ingenuity has continually found ways to improve our ability to find more fuel or expand the usage of the fuel we have. ****ing capitalism! (sarcasm of course)
HOLY ****!! There has ALWAYS been poverty! Wealth is an abnormality that Capitalism helped create, and has allowed more people to take part in. Look, there is no perfect system. True free market capitalism is about as good as it can get. Even the poor in wealthy countries are rich in...
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. There is nothing in this world that has created more freedom, wealth, technology, healthcare advances etc etc etc etc etc, than capitalism. NOW, if you would have said the crony capitalism we have right now then I wouldn't completely argue with you...
To pay some money and then marry the person is supposed to be some kind of punishment? If that was the law here how many people do you think would get raped on a daily basis?
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.
You forgot to read a little further. Here...
The teachings of just Jesus then no, but god definitely encouraged it. To deny that is turning a blind eye.
Besides, we all know that it's way more important to be sure to use one of the ten commandments to not boil a kid in it's mothers milk instead of thou shall not rape. I mean how else...
Pretty much all of these countries ARE religious. Just because they don't follow a religion of a book like Christianity, Judaism or Islam doesn't mean they are atheist at all. The government that runs those countries is structured like a religion in that the leader of each of those countries...
I would disagree with you. Let me put it like this. If there wasn't a divine claim on the Temple mount, would those two groups of people have been fighting and killing each other for as long as they have? Would we really be worrying about Iran getting nuclear weapons if it's leader didn't...