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You live in what is easily the most Christian nation in the Western world, apart from Greece.
Given the predominance of Christianity, why would you feel guilt about holding Christian beliefs?
Given the predominance of Christianity, is it possible that Christianity is part of the problem?
Religious commitment by country and age | Pew Research Center
OB
The predominant mindset isn't Christian. It believes Christianity is a form of enslavement.
This culture is hostile to Christianity. This is a dechristianized culture.
It's buy American, and support our rights and freedoms, right to bear arms, right to no taxes etc.
Well, this use to be the case, but now with so much automation in production, it is making sense to build a lot of factories here in the U.S.OK I'll be serious.
A return to manufacturing on any large scale is highly unlikely due to the obvious cost of labour problem. For American made product to sell it would need either:
or
- a public prepared to pay higher prices than they pay for a foreign made, but cheaper, product.
or
- government subsidy to offset the higher cost of the home built product. Since a subsidy would come out of taxes the public pays
The second or third option is possible but not on any big scale. Tariff protections also have a poor track record since they are a disincentive to local manufacturing to improve product and reduce prices.
- tariffs on imported product. Again the public pays through higher prices
Encouraging innovation requires industry subsidy. Possible, but again the taxpayer pays.
Old fashioned families? (see my comment about Leave It To Beaver). Reverse engineering social structure is near impossible.
Overall - these changes hardly qualify as 'Great'.
OB
Are you suggesting the Democratic Party still supports segregation and gay people staying closeted?
If not, then the party changing its position is not a fairy tale.
I think you need to get out more.
OB
Is it defeatist to reject getting stuck in the past? Trying to bring back "the glory days" doesn't work any better for a country than it does for Ted Schmosby who peaked in high school and is still trying to recapture those moments thirty years later.
Rather, we should look forward and create a new golden age that is built within the reality of our own time.
Behaviors like adultery, divorce, "locker-room talk," and the worship of money?Certain behaviors considered immoral in the mind of a Christian, were deemed good in the prevailing mindset of the west. Those who are intolerant of Christian values and Christians themselves were emboldened by what seemed a permanent position on the moral high ground.Then President Trump happened.
Yeah, that's definitely better. Schmosby was just the first name that popped into my head as I was writing.I'd have chosen Al Bundy as the example.
Nah, yer s' posed t' do that stuff once yer in the house.Behaviors like adultery, divorce, "locker-room talk," and the worship of money?
In other words, a rewind back to the 1950's. Those were good days!
Everyone has their own idea of when were the good ole days; Personally I feel that the 1990's were it.In other words, a rewind back to the 1950's. Those were good days!
Well women and men have found the sex act more pleasurable when it doesn’t require the burden of endless pregnancies. BTW, the true power of a woman is found in her mind not her body.Feminine power was lost when the burden of responsibility for the outcome of the sexual act was removed. That responsibility preserved the perception of dignity inherent in men and women. Sexual activity that isn't burdened by the responsibility of it's reproductive purpose is valued for pleasure only. The wife is reduced to an object of pleasure. The true power given to women is found in the pleasure her body can give to a man. That power is exercised when that pleasure is denied. Contraception, especially the pill, initiated a culture of objectification of the body and loss of the perception of dignity inherent in men and women.
Agreed. Feminine power is preserved by enforcement of responsibility attached to the sex act rather than the pleasure of it.BTW, the true power of a woman is found in her mind not her body.
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