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Before the 1960's, when God was in schools, both Blacks and Whites, didn't have to lock their doors. Before the 1960's, there was no iron bars on windows, dead

Before the 1960's, when God was in schools, both Blacks and Whites, didn't have to lock their doors. Before the 1960's, there was no iron bars on windows, dead bolt locks, car, home and business alarms, and no security cameras in the home, business or city wide. Those are the facts, especially for the atheists and agnostics.

woofyman 13y ago
And black people were lynched and denied voting rights. Women were second class citizens. Gays were beaten by the police. Those were the days !
undoware 13y ago
Yes, and the streets were paved with blood. The arc of history is long, but it turns toward justice, and away from onanistic nostalgia.
milesf 13y ago
Morality without God is a meaningless conversation, because without authority moral choices are completely voluntary. No matter how much progress we make as human beings, we are still 100% dependent on God. My favourite apocryphal story illustrates this point: --- One day a group of scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him. The scientist walked up to God and said, "God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We're to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don't you just go on and get lost." God listened very patiently and kindly to the man and after the scientist was done talking, God said, "Very well, how about this, let's say we have a man making contest." To which the scientist replied, "OK, great!" But God added, "Now, we're going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam." The scientist said, "Sure, no problem" and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt. God just looked at him and said, "No, no, no. You go get your own dirt!"

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Before the 1960's, when God was in schools, both Blacks and Whites, didn't have to lock their doors. Before the 1960's, there was no iron bars on windows, dead

by AhContraire 13y ago

woofyman 13y ago
And black people were lynched and denied voting rights. Women were second class citizens. Gays were beaten by the police. Those were the days !
undoware 13y ago
Yes, and the streets were paved with blood. The arc of history is long, but it turns toward justice, and away from onanistic nostalgia.
milesf 13y ago
Morality without God is a meaningless conversation, because without authority moral choices are completely voluntary. No matter how much progress we make as human beings, we are still 100% dependent on God. My favourite apocryphal story illustrates this point: --- One day a group of scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him. The scientist walked up to God and said, "God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We're to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don't you just go on and get lost." God listened very patiently and kindly to the man and after the scientist was done talking, God said, "Very well, how about this, let's say we have a man making contest." To which the scientist replied, "OK, great!" But God added, "Now, we're going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam." The scientist said, "Sure, no problem" and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt. God just looked at him and said, "No, no, no. You go get your own dirt!"