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Conan O'Brien	Nov 16 2008, 03:07 AM
SKILLNADEN ÄR DRINKABILITY Posts: 2,781 Group: Veteran Member #16 Joined: June 8, 2005	Is morality in a decline? I think that's a resounding yes. Honestly, when over two-thirds of African-American children are being born out of wedlock and STDs reach an all time high and your divorce rate is 50% and kids shoot up their classmates and drugs are rampant, yeah, you can say your country has a pretty bad morality problem. I'm a Christian, of course, but it still strikes me how seemingly arbitrary commandments set forth 4000 years ago still show how right they are today. Even a lot of the dietary laws are now being proven to lengthen your life. It strikes us as common sense not to marry in your family, not to drink the blood of animals, and not to eat brains, but back then they had no reason other than "God said so." It's just today that science vindicates it. Even the idea of quarantining lepers was waaaay ahead of its time. I think, and Wikipedia backs me up here, that this is the first recorded incident of such behavior. Nothing prescribed by the Old Testament has been found to bad for society. Say what you will about Islamic countries and the atrocities there, but they don't have nearly as much problems as we do with breaking the law and moral decay. Why? Because they haven't budged on their moral code in over a thousand years. Try going to Iran and suggesting a liberal interpretation of the Sharia. I don't mean to suggest that the Islamic system is better, but at least they HAVE a system, other than make it up as you go, which seems to be the Western system. I think a good moderate example would be Turkey. Turkey is democratic, with freedom of religion and speech and all that jazz. Constitutionally, their state is separate from the church. But that doesn't stop them from enacting 9/10 of Islamic law. They realize that it's a tried and true method that 90% of the population can agree on. Whatever. Most of morals come from religious conviction, which I know is a hard sell.
	~~Wind Sword Quote: Please keep Christian bashing to a minimum. This is mainly the American South (and mainly Evangelical death cults), which is similar to Afghanistan under the Taliban. Touching. Scientology Quote: Clones are create and people can't bore a clone. Scientifically they are called born and not created. The only way to pre-determine their genes is if they are already out in the world usually in a pod that would resemble the sac in a mothers womb. Take Star Wars for example. Smartest post ever made.

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