The Brits were around for hundreds of years before the USA, and you seem to think 30 years is a "long time"?
How are the Brits doing now? How is their standard of living? How is the selection of products available to them? How is the crime rate? How is the muslim invasion going?
The British are doing better than we are. And frankly, 4.6% of the population is hardly an "invasion".
You didn't answer the questions.
Mexico does not have a welfare system and people there are not burning the system to the ground.
People in along the border and in the Yucatan would disagree with you.
Then why isn't "Mexico", burning?
You are aware that antibiotics are used to treat STDs (not discovered until the early 1900s)? You are aware that STDs caused people to be sterile, aren't you (that means if STDs were as prevalent as you say, the birth rate would have been far lower.
Ummmm... no. Here was the thing. When you treat an STD with an anti-biotic, it's cured. That's the point. As opposed to a diseased person who goes on infecting people. The fact is, your silly 1/3rd number aside, there are probably less people with STD's than there were a century ago.
Yes, that was the point, your statement of there were more people with STDs then, when there were not antibiotics, would have dramatically cut the birth rate (if your statement was correct).
The one in three number was from the headlines the other day, over 110,000,000 people are infected with STDs. So much for the progressives teaching children how to have sex will cut or eliminate "diseases" and high, unmarried birth rates.....
The Crusaders went to the ME at the request of the ME leaders' requests for help from the muslim hordes. I did not claim that they were very effective.
Nobody wanted the Crusaders there. The BYZANTINES wanted them to help prop up their sorry Empire, but the Crusaders got some whacky idea about liberating the Holy Land. In the process, they probably sped up Byzantium's fall and made Europe MORE vulnerable to Islamic invasion.
Constantine requested assistance from Rome, the call went out for help. Because there were poor communications, it turned into a cluster. That does not change the fact that the muslims were attacking and assistance was requested.
Actually, that was horseshit and propaganda... Of course, you have to believe your enemies are worse.
But here's the thing. God in the Bible orders the COMPLETE extermination of enemies of Israel, including the babies. In fact God withdrew his favor from Saul not because he slaughtered the Amalekite babies, but because he thought that their livestock was still perfectly usable.
I guess that was some really evil Livestock.
If you are prepared to do battle with evil, you can read the book of Jubilees and find out why it was important for the livestock to be slaughtered.
I am amazed, that you, a mere mortal man, can declare the LORD was "wrong", based on your thousands of years analysis of a situation that has little evidence of exactly what happened. (It is one of the reasons that I choose to believe the LORD, because there are so many of you, with different names, and different faces, but still, with the same "belief" that you know everything about the earth, based on what other "men" said, or limited fossilized clues)
Saul also went to witches (a direct sin against the LORD). Saul, also thought "he" knew better than the LORD (sound familiar). The LORD left Saul as king, but blessed David. Saul showed his butt, and he was "spanked".
If the BSA (A homophobic organization dominated by Catholic and Mormons I have no love for) had paid off families and relocated the leaders, then you might have a point.
The BSA was a group formed to promote set values. Why should they want people in the group that "choose" to live in a way that mocks and ridicules those values? They wanted the problems gone, and did so, unfortunately way too many were not punished by the law for their crimes against boys.
To Whom? Catholic Cops? My Catholic Parents? The Catholic Teachers? Exactly who was I suppsoed to report these people to? (ANd keep in mind, I didn't actually have evidence, just a knowledge these guys were weird.)
So you are bearing false witness against priests? You did not say that you were suspicious, you implied these men were "molesters".
More bigotry? Priests have to deal with their temptations, and many do have affairs and leave the priesthood. That does not sound like the rest of your rant against men (most of which) you haven't met.
It isn't about temptation, it's about culture. The Catholic Church is actually kind of a hotbed of deviancy, when you get right down to it. They worship a torture-porn image of a naked guy being nailed to a cross. It's kind of sick, actually.
There are problems in the Catholic Church. There are problems where ever there are "men" (this is the proper term for the race of men, including women) in power. However, the Catholic Church has been one of the best institutions for "good" on the planet. Have there been problems? Yes. Will there continue to be problems? Yes. Now, name me one other institution that has done the types of charity, the outreach, the building of schools, and hospitals in areas where they are not invited (for believers, and non-believers alike). Name me one other institution that had people break away to form so many other churches, with the majority of them, doing similar works. Name me any "atheist" organization that does a fraction of what the Catholic Church does.
The tortured body of the CHRIST, is to remind us, that G*d sent HIS only begotten SON to us, and that our sins are represented in those horrendous wounds portrayed by the image of the crucifixion. I don't believe there is any other image that demonstrates how truly ugly our sins are. Also, that the CHRIST, willingly, was tortured, and died for "our" sins, that we would have a chance at redemption. HE is the only way! HE sent the HOLY SPIRIT to us to give us the gifts of: Knowledge, Counsel, Wisdom, Understanding, Fortitude, Piety, and Joy of Piety. What "man" can compare with those gifts?
It tickles me, how people like you want to beat up on other peoples' beliefs, but, can offer nothing that comes close to what the CHRIST offered. Your way leads to sin and eternal death. HIS way leads to peace and eternal life.
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Yet, "you" are telling us what we must support, and believe: abortion and gay marriage. I am not telling you how to "live". I am pointing out a historical trend that the progressive methods of "belief" tend to end up with people starving, poor health care, bullied people that believe differently, types of slavery, political prisons, and the murder of hundreds, thousands, even millions of people. The Judeo/Christian communities tend to be relatively peaceful, productive, encourage people, and build families and futures.
I don't see it as a difficult choice: work hard now, and teach your children the same thing, or take what others have and watch your children be tortured and starving.
But that's bullshit.
Socialist, welfare state countries have higher standards of living, better health care, etc.
Do you have "evidence" of this? Why do their "rich" come to this country to have medical procedures done, if their health care is so great? Why are their people, still, trying to emigrate here, if their countries are better? Why aren't Americans flocking in droves to those countries, if they are such an improvement over this country?
If you want to look at countries that follow the sky pixie, you have the Philippines, Mexico, Columbia and every other third world shithole where they still take the Pope seriously.