The reason why that Muslims have more children than other religious groups and non-religious people makes anxious is because it makes scared that they’ll become the majority of the population....
These historical comparisons always get me. Yeah, as a middle class American in 2024 I have a microwave and health insurance which does mean in some ways my life is “better” than Andrew Carnegie’s life 130 years ago. But he could just hire a huge staff for his mansion. He could buy whole libraries and gift them to cities.
Your comparisons of a modern doctor to Marilyn Monroe… Well a modern doctor is probably working 60 hours a week to get that $300,000 salary. Marilyn Monroe probably could have just… Retired while the doctor needs to work another couple decades to pay off student loans…
There’s no apple to apple comparison. Standard of living and expectations change. But you can’t just erase the simple pleasures of being famously rich because now microwaves exist.
Yeah and they are still bad comparisons. A doctor will command respect and prestige in their community in a way unfortunately a plumber will generally not. Inflation and technological advancements don’t really change that.
Your argument seems cousin to the Fox News type about microwaves and refrigerators. I don’t really think it makes sense to make these time traveling comparisons at all.
Authoritarianism is when taxes pay for defense and civil space program?
Yeah I get it, out military is bloated, does bad things, and we keep the industrial complex going buy selling weapons to almost anyone who will buy them.
The government paying SpaceX to build rockets is not authoritarianism.
If I were on SCOTUS I’d tell some PAC to sue and then I’d just automatically hear the case and then I’d rule the Ohio law unconstitutional, because it flies in the face of how a moron thinks our election system goes 🙄
Edit: Down votes and no replies? I guess I dropped my /s
It’s a strawman/red herring argument about the Noah’s flood.
If a lay person thinks it took millions of years to form the grand canyon, well someone will point out that this rock/fossil/cucumber became preserved in days, so therefore all known fossils and geological formations too could have formed in the weeks during and after a global flood.
It kind of gets into the napkin math. But it’s sort of silly.
If most writers can spend the first third of their career focusing on journalism or some type of corporate writing, and then the middle third on publishing novels or whatever, and then the last third teaching, or maybe just riding the fame of the one book that got turned into a movie… Yeah I think trying to be a writer sounds easier than becoming a billionaire.
Is this really true? Pipes, heat exchangers and motors all have lots of copper. Why would a camera have a lot of copper in it?
Google is not being helpful and just returning results of this meme. There is a story out of Houston implying they do not have a lot of copper. And a story out of Honolulu that’s pretty ambiguous.
You’d think they basically just be a digital camera, a big lens, power supply, hardwired internet. So I mean I guess you could just cut and harvest the power line, but that will eventually lead down the pole and into concrete. The internet line is apparently fiber optic in many cases.
The housing is probably pretty heavy and there may be a back up battery. But unless there is a powerful motor somewhere to turn the camera (unlikely) then yeah there’s only going to be a few ounces of copper.
I’m not easily finding this piece of art online. Is it some Han dynasty vase with a dragon on it and the Creation museum has gone Full It’s a Dinosaur They Lived Among?
There are definitely anti educational themes in some strains of Christianity.
In the circles I grew up in, public school was evil for a variety of reasons. The good Christian families would not send their kids to public colleges either. They’d send them to Christian colleges which in many cases are not accredited. Not a good choice if you want to be an engineer or something. OK if just looking for a godly spouse!
We wanted a science fair at our Christian high school but the leadership was against it, lol.
Home schooling is a popular choice in some Christian circles. It’s hard to say that home schooling is a generally pro educational decision.
Think about the Bible. The first story is that God made everything. Cool. The second story is that Adam and Eve wanted knowledge of good and evil and God was like lol no.
Finally, if you want an extreme example, read the book Educated. I guess it’s more about a cult that is a family. But yeah.
This is a specific reference to the kind of church that emphasizes a personal relation with Jesus as the escape from sin etc. It’s like the second reformation. It’s not good enough to not be catholic. It’s not good enough to go to a Protestant church that doesn’t use icons and Latin chants and confessional. Church itself can be a distraction to some non denominational fundamentalists. You should go to church but it’s a bare bones place. The emphasis is on you reading your Bible. Etc.
There certainly is a strain of modern American non denominational fundamentalists who think the reformation was the right idea. Catholic priests and all the trappings are a distraction.
Think about a modern Protestant church. It’s empty. No art. You show up. Simple sermon. Socializing. The whole emphasis for many modern believers is a personal relationshio with God. Not supposed to be the mega church pastor, or the art, or the nice facilities, or the donuts.
The high fertility rate of Muslims makes me kind of anxious...
The reason why that Muslims have more children than other religious groups and non-religious people makes anxious is because it makes scared that they’ll become the majority of the population....
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