Thank you for the link and explanation.
Christianity is an incredibly splintered belief system and the various denominations disagree over almost every tenet of their faith so Fred Phelps is just one more fractured view.
Islam seems to be more cohesive. My job involves working with...
I am a law abiding citizen because I see the need for the laws. Fear of reprisal is not what keeps me from breaking a law.
Push most people far enough into a corner with fear and they will come out fighting. Just out of principal.
If the UN cannot enforce its power on various countries through sanctioning, what makes you think one world government would do any better?
You would have the same problems. Consider the U.S. which is quite willing to work with the UN to sanction other countries, but when we've been...
If I understand correctly, I cannot respond to this thread on the Islam board because I'm not muslim. The rules seem a bit confusing to me so I hope this is the right place. I don't have enough posts so cannot link back to the original post in the Islam forum.
Explain again how this quote...
The religious right and its social agenda are just as much a danger as the islamic extremists. The difference is that they are constrained by our legal system whereas the islamic extremists are not.
Based on current polls, the republicans would lose a goodly number of the seats in the senate...
No, two wrongs don't make a right, but if I remember correctly, it was Hezbollah that went into Israel and kidnapped two soldiers. Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel. Your solution is what...that because two wrongs don't make a right, Israel should just calmly sit back and turn the...
The solution to Hammas and Hezbollah is to recognize them as legitimate political parties/governments. Eventually, they'll become just as useless as most political parties and governments. Look at the U.S. in 1776. These people were terrorists by today's standards and, because they won...
Morality is defined by the needs of the society. In the small hunter/gather societies, conformity was required for the basic survival of the community. If you took more than your share, murdered another community member who was badly needed for hunting, breeding, etc. you would be killed or...