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Title: Americans are turning away from organized religion in record numbers
Source: Alternet
URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/ ... ed-religion-in-record-numbers/
Published: Mar 2, 2015
Author: Lynn Parramore
Post Date: 2015-03-06 12:42:16 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 19380
Comments: 83


Atheist teen girl holding a banner with the inscription-"THERE IS NO GOD" (Shutterstock)

With fire-breathing religion figuring anew in global conflicts, and political discussions at home often dominated by the nuttery of the Christian right, you might get the sense that somebody’s god is ready to mug you around every street corner. But if you’re the type who doesn’t like to hang your hat on organized religion, here’s a bit of good news: in America, your numbers are growing.

There are more religiously unaffiliated people in the U.S. today than ever before. Starting in the 1980s, a variety of polls using different methodologies have come to the same conclusion: people who do not identify with religious labels are on the rise, perhaps even doubling in that time frame.

Some call them “nones”: agnostics, atheists, deists, secular humanists, general humanists, and people who just don’t care to identify with any religious group. It’s not exactly correct to call them nonbelievers, because some still have faith and spirituality in some sense or another. A 2012 Pew study noted that 30 percent of these people believe in “God or universal spirit” and around 20 percent even pray every day. But according to the latest research, Americans checking the “none of the above” box will make up an increasingly important force in the country. Other groups, like born-again evangelicals, have grown more percentage-wise, but the nones have them beat in absolute numbers.

The nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute has documented this sea change in its American Values Atlas, which it released last Wednesday. The fascinating study provides demographic, religious and political data based on surveys conducted throughout 2014. According to PRRI director of research Dan Cox, “The U.S. religious landscape is undergoing a dramatic transformation that is fundamentally reshaping American politics and culture.”

Last year, for the very first time, Protestants lost their majority status in the Institute’s annual report, making up only 47 percent of those surveyed. The religiously unaffiliated, who come in at 22 percent, boast numbers on par with major religious groups like American Catholics. All told, the unaffiliated is the second-largest group in the country. It was also the most common group chosen by residents in 13 states, with the largest share (a third or more) in Washington, Oregon and New Hampshire. In Ohio and Virginia, this group was tied for first place. The unaffiliated don’t find too many like-minded folks down in Mississippi, however, where they make up only 10 percent of the population.

The study also found that there are 15 states where the unaffiliated constitute the second-largest group.

So what do we know about these people? Nones tend to be more politically liberal — three-quarters favor same-sex marriage and legal abortion. They also have higher levels of education and income than other groups. While about one out of five Americans is unaffiliated, the number is much higher among young people: Pew research shows that a third of Americans under 30 have no religious affiliation. Harvard professor Robert Putnam, who studies religion, thinks the trend among younger people is part of their general lack of interest in community institutions and institutions in general.

Last year, the Washington Post ran an article citing research by Allen Downey, a professor of computer science at Massachusetts’ Olin College of Engineering, who claims that people become nones mainly for two reasons: lack of religious upbringing (OMG those hippie parents!) and… the Internet. According to Downey, as much as 20 percent of unaffiliation is attributable to Internet use. He found that between 1990 and 2010, the share of Americans claiming no religious affiliation grew from 8 percent to 18 percent while the number of Americans surfing the Web jumped from almost nothing to 80 percent. But he acknowledges, as his critics are quick to point out, that correlation does not causation make.

One thing is certain: voting nones are making their presence felt in politics. They are thought to have helped Obama win a second term.

But the GOP doesn’t seem to show many signs of reducing the outsized influence of white evangelicals, who represent only 18 percent of the population, at least publicly. Just a couple of weeks ago, presidential hopeful Scott Walker could be seen refusing to answer a question about evolution, as if embracing widely accepted science would make him an apostate. Ordained Southern Baptist Mike Huckabee, also making noises of running, just released a book titled God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy, which kind of makes the Lord sound like the Great Bubba in the sky. But on the secretive big money donor trail, which all serious candidates must follow, the only religion they’ll be talking about much is free market fundamentalism. Your libertarians, your supply siders, and your various fatcats care a whole lot more about their bank accounts than any spiritual reckonings. Getting the government out of their way to leave them to their plundering is their holy scripture.

But when talking to voters, the GOP really can’t afford to tone it down, because while monied elites tend to be secular, selling free-market pillage to the people getting robbed is not a very effective strategy. So they still have to mask their agenda behind appeals to popular religion so the non-rich will vote against their economic interests in places like Tennessee, which has the highest share of white evangelicals, at 43 percent. (White mainline Protestants account for 14 percent of the population nationally.)

As you might expect, the fact that religion is losing its grip on the daily lives of Americans is freaking a lot of people out. The New York Times’ David Brooks is quite alarmed, admonishing nones that “secularism has to do for nonbelievers what religion does for believers — arouse the higher emotions, exalt the passions in pursuit of moral action.” Of course, secularists only form one portion of the unaffiliated group, but considering that Mr. Brooks likes to wax on about the moral probity of America’s founders — your George Washingtons and so on — he might ask himself which box they might have checked. (1 image)

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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)

Hell hath no fury like a church scorned.

Percy Misanthrope  posted on  2015-03-06   13:01:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Willie Green (#0)

The excesses of the churches, their own hypocrisy and moneygrubbing and shameless scandals have directly caused the plunge in religion's popularity in the country.

The article tried to blame (or credit) the internet for this but it is the gross corruption of the churches and their leaders that have led to this situation. The rot of the churches is internal, not external.

The churches of America have been judged by the young people and been found wanting. Not to mention being so obviously organizations of self-righteous and self-serving hypocrites.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-06   13:10:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Willie Green, Vicomte13, religion of socialism, and carbon taxes (#0)

The religion of Progressive Communism (& Connecticut Socialist Catholics) is on the rise...


The Rise Of The Religious Left: Religious Progressives Will Soon Outnumber Conservatives

the percentage of religious conservatives shrinks in each successive generation, with religious progressives outnumbering religious conservatives in the Millennial generation.”

According to the survey, 23 percent of people aged 18 to 33 are religious progressives, while 22 percent are nonreligious and 17 percent are religious conservatives. By contrast, only 12 percent of those aged 66 to 88 are religious progressives, whereas 47 percent are said to be religious conservatives.

Religion has long been co-opted by religious conservatives as a vehicle for political gain, but this study hints that the future of faith-based political advocacy could rest with the left-leaning faithful. Religious progressives already make up 28 percent of the Democratic party—this in addition to 42 percent that are religious moderates—a number that only stands to grow as Millennials age and begin to vote in greater numbers.

Religious progressives are also more ethnically diverse than religious conservatives, a fact that bodes well for the Democratic party as the country becomes more racially varied. And when it comes to economic issues, religious progressives are actually more passionate than other liberals about eradicating income inequality; the study found that 88 percent of religious progressives said that the government should do more to help the poor, more than any other group polled.


The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party

"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul

Hondo68  posted on  2015-03-06   13:33:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: hondo68 (#3)

...the study found that 88 percent of religious progressives said that the government should do more to help the poor, more than any other group polled.

As we see here at LF.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-06   14:59:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: TooConservative (#4)

Religious progressives are right about this…in a sense. Everybody should be doing more to ensure that there are fewer poor. That need not (and should not) mean simple-minded handouts. It should be focused on structural policies that impoverish workers and divert profit to warlords and slavedrivers. Example: Free trade with China - a society that uses slaves and torments Christians - needs to end through a tariff system designed to make it disadvantageous to import products made by such nations.

Favor the Mexicos and Irelands and Philippines of the world. Disfavor Communist lands, lands that oppress Christians, and lands that impose Sharia. All people need work, but we're putting the Chinese to work the same way European textile mills put American slaves to work in the 1850s…the wrong way.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-03-06   15:22:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Vicomte13 (#5)

Example: Free trade with China - a society that uses slaves and torments Christians - needs to end through a tariff system designed to make it disadvantageous to import products made by such nations.

Forced labor is a more prominent feature of American prisons than even the Chinese slave gulags.

Maybe we should boycott prison labor at home before presuming to impose tariffs on foreign slave labor camps.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-06   15:27:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: TooConservative (#6)

It is not a presumption to impose such tariffs. We should do both.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-03-06   18:25:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Vicomte13 (#7)

How about the Foxconn workers who make all the slick Apple gadgets and their working conditions? Suicide is regular in their factories.

How about the child labor and appalling conditions for Nike shoes, not to mention other high-dollar footwear?

Or the majority of the textile products that can be purchased in the West? After natural fibers, child labor and human misery are the main ingredients.

I'm not sure why, given what else we buy and how we treat our own prison population, that we are in any position to wage economic warfare on these issues.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-06   18:43:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Willie Green (#0)

 Americans are turning away from organized religion in record numbers

 

And that's as American as Apple Pie and Thomas Jefferson...


"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men , have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;
 
...
 
 that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "
 
"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"
--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786
 

VxH  posted on  2015-03-06   19:36:39 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Willie Green (#0)

Americans are turning away from organized religion in record numbers

I tried telling LP this as far back as 2008.

I don't think many believed me

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-03-06   19:49:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: TooConservative (#8)

How about the Foxconn workers who make all the slick Apple gadgets and their working conditions? Suicide is regular in their factories.

How about the child labor and appalling conditions for Nike shoes, not to mention other high-dollar footwear?

Or the majority of the textile products that can be purchased in the West? After natural fibers, child labor and human misery are the main ingredients.

I'm not sure why, given what else we buy and how we treat our own prison population, that we are in any position to wage economic warfare on these issues.

We;re not. Which js why we need to make ourselves right by ceasing to sin on these matters - by changing laws raising tariffs and barring such imports.

You know me: I never suggest things that are easy or palatable. I suggest things that are morally necessary. And you know that I never accept hypocrisy: if we are demanding better conditions, then we cannot permit ourselves such conditions either. I demand not just consistency, but consistency at a high level of virtue. A race for the bottom free-for-all is consistent, but it consistently produces immoral results and is unacceptable.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-03-06   22:38:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Vicomte13 (#11)

You know me: I never suggest things that are easy or palatable.

I think you suggest policies you know full well will never happen. You don't do anything to help those policies advance in any way. Then you declare the whole process bankrupt and default to your usual evil-rich-Republican-tycoons-blah-blah-blah which you apparently absorbed via mother's milk or baby formula.

In this way, to you Republicans are actually far worse than Dems on abortion and sodomy marriage while the Dems, the constant champions of abortion and sodomy marriage, always get a pass from you despite your occasional pro forma condemnation of the Dems that you utter while still siding with them because their flavor of socialism comports with Rome's favored social gospel nonsense. Even your fairly rare condemnations of the Dems on these matters only occurs when someone directly challenges you about it.

It is a pattern so consistent that even Stevie Wonder could see it.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-07   3:28:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: GrandIsland (#10)

I tried telling LP this as far back as 2008.

The influence of religion on public life and morals varies considerably over centuries. This was also true of ancient Jewish religious life, not just a corruption of Christian cultures and countries.

Islam has had its more tolerant and repressive eras as well. For instance, as recently as the Seventies, Iranian women wore makeup, short dresses, no head scarves and looked like Western women and no one thought a thing about it. This was true across the Mideast. Forcing women into the hijab and the burkha is largely a phenomenon of the last 25 years, a reactionary stance of Islamic fundamentalism as it came to power.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-07   8:57:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: TooConservative (#12)

I think you suggest policies you know full well will never happen. You don't do anything to help those policies advance in any way. Then you declare the whole process bankrupt and default to your usual evil-rich-Republican-tycoons-blah-blah-blah which you apparently absorbed via mother's milk or baby formula.

In this way, to you Republicans are actually far worse than Dems on abortion and sodomy marriage while the Dems, the constant champions of abortion and sodomy marriage, always get a pass from you despite your occasional pro forma condemnation of the Dems that you utter while still siding with them because their flavor of socialism comports with Rome's favored social gospel nonsense. Even your fairly rare condemnations of the Dems on these matters only occurs when someone directly challenges you about it.

It is a pattern so consistent that even Stevie Wonder could see it.

And I think you think of yourself as a savvy intelligent person of principle who has concluded that, for the general good, it is important to resort to "the art of the possible".

My impression of you is different.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-03-07   10:13:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: hondo68 (#3)

The religion of Progressive Communism (& Connecticut Socialist Catholics) is on the rise...

...which in the first case is hostile toward Christianity; In the second case they often seem to evolve into an nihilism and resentment, joining forces with the first group of reprobates.

When it comes to economic issues, religious progressives are actually more passionate than other liberals about eradicating income inequality; the study found that 88 percent of religious progressives said that the government should do more to help the poor, more than any other group polled.

IOW, they feel gubmint tyrants and despots should steal and redistribute wealth on their behalf.

"Religious" in the context of "Progressives" is an oxymoron.

Liberator  posted on  2015-03-07   10:22:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Vicomte13 (#5)

Frankly, a pretty equitable economic balance has been struck in America for at least the last 60 years (until an unconstitutional socialist/communistic gubmint began confiscating the blood and sweat of others through coercion and tyranny.)

Charity begins in the home -- NOT via DC or your State Legislatures.

Liberator  posted on  2015-03-07   10:27:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: VxH (#9)

Turning away from organized religion in record numbers....[is] as American as Apple Pie and Thomas Jefferson...

Well now -- is "Gay Marriage" also as "American as Apple Pie and Thomas Jefferson" as well?

Frankly, Jefferson's wisdom in the area of Salvation was found to be sorely lacking. If the "record number" of sheep choose to follow his example, they do so at their own eternal peril.

Liberator  posted on  2015-03-07   10:36:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: GrandIsland (#10) (Edited)

I tried telling LP this as far back as 2008.

I don't think many believed me

Nostradamus you're not.

What's not to believe about an increasingly insanely selfish, disconnected bunch of bleating narcissistic fools who are "losing my religion"? (btw -- CULTS don't count.)

IF left to the vain devices of their own will, let 'em be their own gods. Have at it. After all, 80-85 years on this earth is practically FOREVER!....OH, WAIT.

Liberator  posted on  2015-03-07   10:42:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Liberator (#17) (Edited)

Well now -- is "Gay Marriage" also as "American as Apple Pie and Thomas Jefferson" as well?

No dumbass, homosexual marriage isn't isn't even human.

"I KNOW BUT ONE CODE OF MORALITY FOR MEN WHETHER ACTING SINGLY OR COLLECTIVELY"

Frankly, if the religiously petrified McSheeple hadn't allowed state-establishing Eunuchs to castrate their ability to place human morality in the context of several billion years of heterosexual evolution, you might be up to speed on that.

VxH  posted on  2015-03-07   11:28:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: Liberator (#15) (Edited)

"Religious" in the context of "Progressives" is an oxymoron.

Au contraire -- the objects of Progressive's religious worship are simply whatever the technocratic utopia manages to produce before the Creator gives it over ala Romans 1:25+, again.

With the Eunuch's Pharaoh (Sun-prince) perched atop the state-established temple/pyramid, Egypt was very progressive in its day. So was Rome.

Same old Ba'alshyte, different municipal toilet.

VxH  posted on  2015-03-07   11:39:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: Liberator (#17)

Frankly, Jefferson's wisdom in the area of Salvation was found to be sorely lacking.

Not to be too much of a smartass but, as I recall, Jefferson was instrumental in writing the sodomy laws of the new state of Massachusetts. He was not at all soft on sodomy. MA was often a model legislature that other states regularly copied in areas of law.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-07   11:40:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: TooConservative (#21) (Edited)

He was not at all soft on sodomy.

On the right track, but unfortunately castration wouldn't have had an impact upon the self-evident predisposition for human biology to produce reproductively inert worker bees in the context of severe environmental stress.

I suspect the Eunuch's running the Pharaoh's pyramid scheme were aware of that natural consequence -- and exploited it for their own religious propagation.

www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/fr...e/secrets-of-the-vatican/

Same ol' Ba'alshyte, different municipal toilet.

VxH  posted on  2015-03-07   11:50:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: VxH (#22)

I suspect the Eunuch's running the Pharaoh's pyramid scheme were aware of that natural consequence -- and exploited it for their own religious propagation.

Egypt was not the only monarchy that used eunuchs as key servants of the state, most often from slave backgrounds. Islam and other empires made extensive use of eunuchs in government.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-07   12:05:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: TooConservative (#23)

Egypt was not the only monarchy that used eunuchs as key servants of the state

The world’s first city developed around its temples, and only later did palaces play a role. Its view of the world was conditioned, as in all ancient societies, by totalitarian religious belief. So the picture that comes into focus is that of a theocratic command economy, hierarchically organized , centrally directed, and regulated according to an ideology propagated by a priesthood, playing the role that, 5,000 years later, Soviet Marxists would call ‘the engineers of human souls’. Such was temple rule.

Kriwaczek, Paul (2012-03-27). Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (p. 53). St. Martin's Press. Kindle Edition.

Yep.  Such was temple rule.

Evidently at some point the Eunuch's took over the state- established asylum.

 

VxH  posted on  2015-03-07   12:10:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: Liberator (#18)

Don't shoot the messenger. It is what it is. No amount of individual faith will change that fact.

It's not all bad tho, IMHO, religion will never completely die. It's been here since the beginning of man... and will be here till the last one is breathing.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-03-07   12:33:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: VxH (#24)

Evidently at some point the Eunuch's took over the state- established asylum.

A natural outgrowth of the harem system actually.

If the sultan or emperor could trust his harem to the eunuchs, he could find other uses for them as well. And the eunuchs would have no family connections, no axes to gore other than service to the Grand Poobah of the current regime.

Civil government was often dominated by these eunuchs of the ancient empires. This persisted until relatively modern times in the Islamic world.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-07   12:33:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: TooConservative (#26)

And the eunuchs would have no family connections,

"And some were by birth."

This persisted until relatively modern times in the Islamic world.

It obviously still persists in the Vatican - regardless of whatever plumage the CaeSARean sun-parrots try to wear in public.

VxH  posted on  2015-03-07   12:45:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: VxH (#27)

"And some were by birth."

I think you know that most eunuchs were castrati, not congenitally deformed or asexual types which are quite rare in nature.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-07   13:13:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: TooConservative (#28) (Edited)

asexual types which are quite rare in nature.

That must be news to the majority of the individuals in any bee colony.

Who would be a more obedient worker-bee in the state-established hive: a castrati or...

www.google.com/? gws_rd=ss...nsensitivity+syndrome+XXY

I think the occult religious hive-masters knew more about procreating their state-establishing ilk than just wielding a knife.

VxH  posted on  2015-03-07   13:20:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: VxH, Liberator, A Pole, redleghunter (#28) (Edited)

Wiki: Castrato

The last great operatic castrato was Giovanni Battista Velluti (1781–1861), who performed the last operatic castrato role ever written: Armando in Il crociato in Egitto by Meyerbeer (Venice, 1824). Soon after this they were replaced definitively as the first men of the operatic stage by a new breed of heroic tenor, as first incarnated by the Frenchman Gilbert-Louis Duprez, the earliest so-called "king of the high Cs". His successors have included such singers as Enrico Tamberlik, Jean de Reszke, Francesco Tamagno, Enrico Caruso, Giovanni Martinelli, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Franco Corelli and Luciano Pavarotti, among others.

A castrato singing

Alessandro Moreschi performs part of Eugenio Terziani's Hostias et preces

After the unification of Italy in 1861, castration for musical purposes was officially made illegal (the new Italian state had adopted a French legal code which expressly forbade the practice). In 1878, Pope Leo XIII prohibited the hiring of new castrati by the church: only in the Sistine Chapel and in other papal basilicas in Rome did a few castrati linger.

In other words, until the Italians finally formed a unified country in the 1860's -- in part by locking the pope in his palace where he pouted for the next 60 years until they pretended he was a monarch and could conduct foreign policy again -- the castrato persisted and boys were maimed to prepare them for this shameful role.

The castrato recording sounds kinda screechy to me. I'd take the modern Italian operatic tenor or modern pop/rock tenors any day.

The last sad Vatican castrato who sang the audio clip above:

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-07   13:26:21 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: VxH (#29)

That must be news to the majority of the individuals in any bee colony.

We're not discussing apiculture.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-07   13:28:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: TooConservative (#30)

"The Fight to be Male"
http://www.watchfreemovies.ch/watch-tv- shows/1964/watch-horizon-99409377/season-15/episode-20/

" Several instances are showed in the film that try to demonstrate the influence of hormones in the behavior of humans."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218 233/

 

VxH  posted on  2015-03-07   13:37:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: TooConservative (#31) (Edited)

We're not discussing apiculture.

Bee colonies aren't part of nature?

" not congenitally deformed or asexual types which are quite rare in nature."

Evidently not so rare among colonizing insects.

I wonder how rare it was in Delphic culture...

VxH  posted on  2015-03-07   13:38:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: TooConservative, Willie Green (#2)

The churches of America have been judged by the young people and been found wanting.

Hell hath no fury as young people being told not to be promiscuous, not to abort their kids, take the oath of marriage seriously, stay sober, focus more on the spiritual over the wordly, obey the 10 Commandments, live a clean honest life.......... To all of these callings the young people of the U.S. simply say.......F*CK YOU. I like them a lot. Don't you?

потому что Бог хочет это тот путь

SOSO  posted on  2015-03-07   13:47:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: VxH (#33)

sigh

Eunuchs are not insects.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-07   13:47:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: TooConservative (#35)

asexual types which are quite rare in nature."

Evidently not as rare in nature as you assert. Care to rephrase?

Eunuchs are not insects.

Nonetheless, they modeled their state-establishments after the insects they kept.

VxH  posted on  2015-03-07   14:03:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: VxH (#36)

Nonetheless, they modeled their state-establishments after the insects they kept.

I don't think you can produce an iota of evidence that eunuchs and their role was established by rulers creating a system based on insects.

It sounds daft. We've reached the 'jumping the shark' phase, it seems.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-07   14:07:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: TooConservative (#37) (Edited)

I don't think you can produce an iota of evidence that eunuchs and their role was established by rulers creating a system based on insects.


Oh - What / who were the Delphic Bees?
 
 

 
"In ancient Egypt the bee represented both royalty, through the Goddess Neith, and the sun, through the solar god Ra. The ancient Egyptian city of Sais in ancient Egypt was the home of a principle temple of the Goddess Neith known as  "House of the Bee." Because of Her role as a tutelary Deity of Lower Egypt, and as a protective Deity of the Pharaoh, one of the royal titles of the king was  "He of the Sedge and Bee."  The ancient Egyptians said bees, or in some versions, honey, were the tears of Ra, a sun god. Bees are seen as solar symbols in many cultures - probably due to the golden amber color of their honey and their seemingly uncanny awareness of the position of the sun in the sky.  Ancient Babylonian sacred buildings were erected on ground consecrated by honey, and the Incas of Peru offered honey in their sun temples. In Australia and Africa bees are found as tribal totems. "

  
https://www.google.com/? gws_rd=ssl#q=Bee+Mythology
 

 

Regardless of what inspired them, the role the religious Eunuch Sun-Parrots had in mind for their obediently pacified (and tything) McSheeple is plainly self-evident among the various corporal  state-establishments they've managed to temporaly concoct throughout history. 

What do you think the religious con-artists in the territory of Deseret had in mind for the bee-hive state?

Got Reformed Egyptian?

VxH  posted on  2015-03-07   14:34:47 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: Willie Green (#0)

Americans are turning away from organized religion in record numbers

Good

Now the question is: Will they replace organized mythology with reason and serious evaluation of prudence and consequent conditions to actions, or will the merely substitute a new mythology of licensed self indulgence and self destruction.

rlk  posted on  2015-03-07   14:42:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: VxH (#38)

Oh - What / who were the Delphic Bees?

They were not connected to the roles of eunuchs in medieval and ancient empires.

Tooconservative  posted on  2015-03-07   15:10:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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