Declining moral values

[Dr Gregg]

Today:

- Discriminating against Christians
- Discrimination against Jews

I guess in their minds they can't discriminate and push others around anymore, that must mean they are being discriminated against I weep at the stupidity of man

 

[logical4u]

Today:

- Discriminating against Christians
- Discrimination against Jews

I guess in their minds they can't discriminate and push others around anymore, that must mean they are being discriminated against I weep at the stupidity of man

When people are chopped to pieces with machetes because they are Christian, I call that persecution. When people are not ALLOWED (under punishment of death) to worship their G*d (or even quietly pray to their G*d) in many countries, that is discrimmination. You are bigots and discrimminators.

 

[Kalam]

I guess in their minds they can't discriminate and push others around anymore, that must mean they are being discriminated against I weep at the stupidity of man

When people are chopped to pieces with machetes because they are Christian, I call that persecution.

You've got it backwards, chief.

DR Congo: Lord’s Resistance Army Rampage Kills 321

Regional Strategy Needed to End Rebel Group’s Atrocities and Apprehend Leaders

March 28, 2010

(Kampala) - The rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) killed at least 321 civilians and abducted 250 others, including at least 80 children, during a previously unreported four-day rampage in the Makombo area of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo in December 2009, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

....

LRA forces attacked at least 10 villages, capturing, killing, and abducting hundreds of civilians, including women and children. The vast majority of those killed were adult men, whom LRA combatants first tied up and then hacked to death with machetes or crushed their skulls with axes and heavy wooden sticks. The dead include at least 13 women and 23 children, the youngest a 3-year-old girl who was burned to death. LRA combatants tied some of the victims to trees before crushing their skulls with axes.

DR Congo: Lord?s Resistance Army Rampage Kills 321 | Human Rights Watch
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The Christians are the ones with the machetes. Don't let that put a damper on your persecution complex, though.

 

[SmarterThanHick]

Why is it ethical to benefit others or not harm others? Why is that considered an ethical standard in our culture when it is not the ethical standard in others?

So where does not sense of duty to benefit others come from?
Where does a conviction to not harm others arise?
Who decided?
Who decides?
Why?

What culture is harming others viewed as ethical? I mean, we can get into a whole discussion about what defines "good" and "bad", but I'd rather stay more objective than philosophical. The ethical principle I pointed out above does not require you to benefit others. I dislike the notion "do onto others as you would have them do onto you" because it is frequently misinterpreted and abused as "force onto others as you would want for yourself": the issue of "morals" getting into politics, where they have no place.

When people are chopped to pieces with machetes because they are Christian, I call that persecution. When people are not ALLOWED (under punishment of death) to worship their G*d (or even quietly pray to their G*d) in many countries, that is discrimmination. You are bigots and discrimminators.

what the hell are you talking about?

 

[Gadawg73]

One person believes drinking is immoral. Another believes it is not.
One person believes gambling is immoral. Another believes it is not.
One person believes playing any card game is immoral. Another believes it is not.
One person believes working on Sunday is immoral. Another believes it is not.
One person believes working on Saturday is immoral. Another believes it is not.
One person believes a woman working when she has kids is immoral. Another believes it is not.
One person believes woman wearing pants is immoral. Another believes it is not.
One person believes eating shell fish or BBQ porksandwiches is immoral . Another believes it is not.
..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................to infinity.
Government and society needs to STAY THE HELL OUT of the morals name game.

 

[hunter10]

well it is what it is

 

[logical4u]

I guess in their minds they can't discriminate and push others around anymore, that must mean they are being discriminated against I weep at the stupidity of man

When people are chopped to pieces with machetes because they are Christian, I call that persecution.

You've got it backwards, chief.

DR Congo: Lord’s Resistance Army Rampage Kills 321

Regional Strategy Needed to End Rebel Group’s Atrocities and Apprehend Leaders

March 28, 2010

(Kampala) - The rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) killed at least 321 civilians and abducted 250 others, including at least 80 children, during a previously unreported four-day rampage in the Makombo area of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo in December 2009, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

....

LRA forces attacked at least 10 villages, capturing, killing, and abducting hundreds of civilians, including women and children. The vast majority of those killed were adult men, whom LRA combatants first tied up and then hacked to death with machetes or crushed their skulls with axes and heavy wooden sticks. The dead include at least 13 women and 23 children, the youngest a 3-year-old girl who was burned to death. LRA combatants tied some of the victims to trees before crushing their skulls with axes.

DR Congo: Lord?s Resistance Army Rampage Kills 321 | Human Rights Watch
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The Christians are the ones with the machetes. Don't let that put a damper on your persecution complex, though.

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Just do a search on 'Christians killed'. Would you care to revise your statement?
Because a muslim group chooses a deceptive name, does not make it a Christian group.

 

[Foxfyre]

One person believes drinking is immoral. Another believes it is not.
One person believes gambling is immoral. Another believes it is not.
One person believes playing any card game is immoral. Another believes it is not.
One person believes working on Sunday is immoral. Another believes it is not.
One person believes working on Saturday is immoral. Another believes it is not.
One person believes a woman working when she has kids is immoral. Another believes it is not.
One person believes woman wearing pants is immoral. Another believes it is not.
One person believes eating shell fish or BBQ porksandwiches is immoral . Another believes it is not.
..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................to infinity.
Government and society needs to STAY THE HELL OUT of the morals name game.

Exactly. Government was intended to secure our rights meaning that nobody, despite their beliefs, is allowed to infringe on anybody else's rights without consequence, and then get out of the way and leave the people to form whatever sort of society they wish to have.

The Founders did believe that only a moral society would respect the Constitution and the principles included in it, but they did not see it as the prerogative of government to dictate what morality is.

 

[rikules]

PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans are three times more likely to describe the current state of moral values in the United States as "poor" than as "excellent" or "good." Americans' assessment of U.S. morality has never been positive, but the current ratings rank among the worst Gallup has measured over the past nine years.

Additionally, Gallup's annual poll on moral values, conducted May 3-6, finds 76% of Americans saying moral values in the United States are getting worse; while 14% say they are getting better. Last year saw a slight improvement in these attitudes -- with 21% saying values were getting better -- but opinion has since reverted to near 2006-2008 levels.

Teen pregnancy may be #19 on the list - but I believe it is a significant factor in at least half of all the others.

What say you?

i say


disrespect of others: we can blame this on conservatives who mock and ridicule everyone who doesn't agree with all of their beliefs.

parents not instilling proper values:
we can blame this on conservatives who teach their children to hate and mock and riciule everyone who isn't conservative

parents not spending time with children:
we can blame this on conservatives who have TOO many children so they can't possibly spend quality time with any of them. plus conservative parents spend way too much time shushing their kids as they listen to limbaugh, beck, oreilly and attend tea parties

dishonesty among government/business leaders:
we can blame this on conservatives who believe in completely unfettered capitalism

rising crime/violence (is this true? is it really rising? are there any stats to prove this?)
we can blame this on conservatives who
a. promote hatred and violence on their hate radio shows
and
b. believe in a system of unfettered capitalism that ultimately causes many people to be disenfranchised, leading to poverty, leading to crime


moving away from religion is a GOOD thing.

breakdown of family/unwed mothers:
we can blame this on primitive conservatives who
demand that ABSTINANCE ONLY sex education be the ONLY sex education that teens get in public schools and who are obsessed with marriage. The world is changing. our attitudes regarding relationships, sex, marriage are all changing. Today it is possible for a hard working, responsible woman like Murphy Brown to have a child without a husband.
today people don't remain in bad, loveless marriages simply because conservatives will have a hissy fit if anyone gets divorced.



people not responsible for behavior:
we can blame this on conservatives who REFUSE to stop smoking tobacco, REFUSE to stop eating fattyy foods, REFUSE to be civilzed, REFUSE to diet and exercise, REFUSE to behave in a resepctful manner of others

sex/promiscuity/pornography are GOOD things

abortion: is not a problem.

gay/lesbian relationships:

with these 2 you reveal to me the REAL agenda!

abortion and homosexuality are NOT examples of declining values. The fact that homosexuality is included as a "declining value" is just evidence of irrational hatreds and bigotries.

which reminds me....
I don't see "irrational bigotries against homosexuals" listed as a "declining value".....

teen pregnancy:
brings us back to cons refusing to allow proper sex education in schools while demanding that ABSTINANCE ONLY be the ONLY sex education allowed.

drugs: the war on pot is an abomination
people smoking pot is no more of a "declining value" than people watching nascar or people drinking beer

 

[Dr Gregg]

The conservative brain

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[rikules]

PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans are three times more likely to describe the current state of moral values in the United States as "poor" than as "excellent" or "good." Americans' assessment of U.S. morality has never been positive, but the current ratings rank among the worst Gallup has measured over the past nine years.

Additionally, Gallup's annual poll on moral values, conducted May 3-6, finds 76% of Americans saying moral values in the United States are getting worse; while 14% say they are getting better. Last year saw a slight improvement in these attitudes -- with 21% saying values were getting better -- but opinion has since reverted to near 2006-2008 levels.

Teen pregnancy may be #19 on the list - but I believe it is a significant factor in at least half of all the others.

What say you?

I say...

as a FREEDOM LOVING conservative who believes in SMALLER GOVERNMENT

we need to DO SOMETHING about our national moral decline and the secualr war on our tradition values!

so we need LAWS!

laws against atheism!
laws against homosexuality!
stronger punishments for pot smoking

we need laws that FORCE our teachers to teach ALL of our children our christian conservative beliefs!

we need to to make divorce HARDER (or IMPOSSIBLE) to get!

laws DENYING gays the right to marry
laws allowing conservative christians the right to NOT have to hire people with questionable values (gays, atheists, liberals, fornicators)

we need to bring back purtanical attitudes against pre-marital sex!

we need to re-start referring to women who have sex outside of marriage "whores, tramps, sluts and pigs"

but for men it's ok because men have needs

we need to force women out of the work place (where they STEAL MENS JOBS!) and force them BACK into the kitchen where they can properly take care of and raise their families

we need to make sure that mothers are raising their children with the proper CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN morals and values

so besides more and tougher laws we need government jackbooted thugs to ENFORCE sodomy laws, abstinance laws, pot laws, divorce laws...

because
we can NOT be truely free
until we are free of everything that offends us!

 

[Avatar4321]

We don't fix immorality and lack of virtue with laws. We fix it by instilling people with virtue.

 

[Kalam]

Just do a search on 'Christians killed'. Would you care to revise your statement?

Nope. Could you come down from your cross long enough to actually link to the crap in your post?

Because a muslim group chooses a deceptive name, does not make it a Christian group.

You dishonest moron.

A CHRISTIAN fundamentalist army is rampaging in Uganda, a country coming out of a brutal past and where the economy is now the fastest-growing in Africa, the press is free and presidential elections are scheduled for May.
Business | Christian Cult Killing, Ravaging In New Uganda | Seattle Times Newspaper




More than 25,000 children have been abducted to serve the rebel army -- motivated by a fanatical Christian doctrine -- as foot soldiers and sex slaves.
Ugandan Rebel Reaches Out to International Court - washingtonpost.com

Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)​

Sorry, Scooter; you don't get to slander Islam by attempting to disown a group that follows your own depraved religion. Tens of thousands of children abducted and raped or forced to fight... tens of thousands of civilians mutilated or killed with primitive weapons... all crimes perpetrated by "oppressed" Christians.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ip08pjKngI]YouTube - The Lord's Resistance Army Hunts Children in Sudan[/ame]

 

[Si modo]

Oh, but I'll slander Islam, because today is May 20th.

Gotta love the foot.

 

[SmarterThanHick]

Sorry, Scooter; you don't get to slander Islam by attempting to disown a group that follows your own depraved religion.

But those aren't REALLY Christians, right? Oh no no no. For Scooter does not like or agree with their actions, so he is able to single-handedly decide what religion they do or don't believe in.

 

[THE LIGHT]

The conservative brain

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IMPRESSIVE considering that is where liberals think the entire universe came from.

 

[blu]

I hate the "declining morals" argument. THere has always been crimes, rape, pediphilia, etc, its just now with 24/7 news, you hear about everything. I don't think there is drastic rises in these things.

Disrespect with children and people, yeah, that's likely increased from back in the day. But there is less gay bashing, less racism and discrimination, less sexual harassment and other mistreatment of people going on than in the past, in which many people want to pretend it was the good old days, which is complete fairy tales. But as population grows and there is more and more anonymity, that's what tends to happen in humans.

And then there is the fact that 2 spouses have to work full time to get by, the kids are being raised in daycare, and its harder and more stressful to work and make ends meat. That can wear on anybody.

yep. its hilarious to hear old people to talk about how their times were "moral" for all the reasons you mentioned. in their time it was excepted the wife would just take the beatings and never talk about it, but now people are immoral because we encourage people to get away from the situation and have the person arrested

 

[logical4u]

Just do a search on 'Christians killed'. Would you care to revise your statement?

Nope. Could you come down from your cross long enough to actually link to the crap in your post?

Because a muslim group chooses a deceptive name, does not make it a Christian group.

You dishonest moron.

A CHRISTIAN fundamentalist army is rampaging in Uganda, a country coming out of a brutal past and where the economy is now the fastest-growing in Africa, the press is free and presidential elections are scheduled for May.
Business | Christian Cult Killing, Ravaging In New Uganda | Seattle Times Newspaper




More than 25,000 children have been abducted to serve the rebel army -- motivated by a fanatical Christian doctrine -- as foot soldiers and sex slaves.
Ugandan Rebel Reaches Out to International Court - washingtonpost.com

Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)​

Sorry, Scooter; you don't get to slander Islam by attempting to disown a group that follows your own depraved religion. Tens of thousands of children abducted and raped or forced to fight... tens of thousands of civilians mutilated or killed with primitive weapons... all crimes perpetrated by "oppressed" Christians.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ip08pjKngI]YouTube - The Lord's Resistance Army Hunts Children in Sudan[/ame]

If you read 'who' the Lord's resistance Army says they are, they take 'ideals from Christianity, AS WELL AS MUSLIM, and mysticism. They are not a Christian group. They use the name (unlike the muslims, Christians do not have to 'tolerate' unethical and immoral practices by a group, just because they claim to follow 'the faith'). This group is not Christian, what they are doing is against the Commandments. That would make them bearers of false witness, also.

 

[Baron]

What say you?

I say the longer libs will govern the quickly will be declination of our values.Period.

 

[Kalam]

If you read 'who' the Lord's resistance Army says they are, they take 'ideals from Christianity, AS WELL AS MUSLIM, and mysticism.

They are not a Christian group. They use the name (unlike the muslims, Christians do not have to 'tolerate' unethical and immoral practices by a group, just because they claim to follow 'the faith'). This group is not Christian, what they are doing is against the Commandments. That would make them bearers of false witness, also.

Read the links I provided, you idiot, which unambiguously establish the group as Christian... as if that wasn't already obvious. The only ones asserting that the group is "influenced by Islam" are half-witted Christians who refuse to take responsibility for the actions of their coreligionists. The goal of the group is to establish a society based on the biblical Ten Commandments, and like the Israelites in the Bible, they're attempting to establish their society through enslavement, rape, and mass murder.

Unfortunately for you, you do not have the authority to decide who is and isn't Christian. The group identifies itself as Christian and has unmistakably Christian goals. Sucks for you.