Much in the same way an angry, abusive human's anger needs to be, hmmm?
God continues to seem to have been made in man's image rather than the other way around, for the deity is always portrayed as having weak human emotions. I suppose primitive minds were incapable of creating a deity that...
Speech should not be limited, but when it comes to such an atrocity as hate speech there should be consequences. Punishing the hate speaker, after all, is not censoring his freedom of speech but rather holding him accountable for the caliber of his speech.
If someone can't legally drink until the age of twenty one, why are gun nutters getting all upset about a store having raised the legal age of purchase of a firearm to twenty one? The more gun nutters throw tantrums against common sense, the more it seems they want these shootings to continue...
Indeed, yet it is an indication of an unhealthy society to ignorantly accept that to effect necessary and progressive change is beyond one's control. It seems to me certain institutions are cruelly informing the general population that they must simply accept the way things are and just live...
People, in general, are uncomfortable with not knowing something. Rather than be intellectually honest with themselves, they create these fictional mythologies to provide a false comfort; the falsity of the comfort is evident in the fact that it derives from an unreasonable untruth.
People often discover the answers they seek in religion because its main objective is to provide false comfort through imaginatively conceptualized answers that circumvent knowledge and logic.
There are many reasons that atheism is on the rise, but the main one is that religion becomes less...