When you read the following, it makes you question the necessity of religion in modern society-- in economics and in politics, and especially social issues.
A
Missouri mayor agrees with the shooter who killed three at a Jewish synagogue saying this ten years ago:
Quote:
"I am a friend of Frazier Miller helping to spread his warnings," wrote Clevenger. "The Jew-run medical industry has succeeded in destroying the United State's workforce."
The letter continued.
"Made a few Jews rich by killin' us off."
He also spoke of the "Jew-run government backed banking industry turned the U.S into the world's largest debtor nation."
He is literally blaming the failures of our economy on Jewish people.
Recently, a
Republican Representative and a woman surprisingly, stated this regarding equal pay between men and women:
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Another fact is the influence of hypergamy, which means that women typically choose a mate (husband or boyfriend) who earns more than she does. Men don’t have the same preference for a higher-earning mate.
While women prefer to HAVE a higher-earning partner, men generally prefer to BE the higher-earning partner in a relationship. This simple but profound difference between the sexes has powerful consequences for the so-called pay gap.
Suppose the pay gap between men and women were magically eliminated. If that happened, simple arithmetic suggests that half of women would be unable to find what they regard as a suitable mate.
Obviously, I’m not saying women won’t date or marry a lower-earning men, only that they probably prefer not to. If a higher-earning man is not available, many women are more likely not to marry at all.
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The best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap.
She basically is saying that women should be paid less or they can't find husbands.
I have nothing against religion so long as you don't cross this line:
When you stop treating another person like a human being that is no different than yourself.
Cross that line where you stop looking at each other as human beings, then you lose any validity in your religion and beliefs. We are all human beings only different in mind, thoughts, personality. Our own decisions define what and who we are, and it is this trait that defines us as being human. Once you no longer look at each other as human and see them as less than who you are, then I have every reason to disagree with your religion as a whole especially when you misrepresent the core values and beliefs of your religion.
Religion has no place in government, politics, and social issues. Intermingling religious beliefs with such can bring upon ignorance, hatred, inequality, intolerance, and indifference. Human history has taught us that for thousands of years when religion is mixed with things it shouldn't be mixed with. Each person has their own personal morals and beliefs, but do not impose or force them upon another. Keep your religion and your religious beliefs to yourself. They are incompatible with modern society, and holding onto lingering old religious practices will only hold back progress and forward momentum of society as a whole.
After twelve years of private Catholic education-- 8 years elementary, 4 years high school, I wised up in Senior year of high school to not follow or practice any religion. It may have been a disappointment to a lot of my religion teachers especially those that pestered me to get baptized, but looking back I know I made the right decision. Taking World Religions class in Senior year also helped there alongside World History. You break down religion into its most empirical state and you will find that many religions are no different than each other. Each religion has their benefits and merits, but when one takes it too far in a fundamentalist or extremist state, or when one uses it as the reason society and our economy is failing, or the lack of religion as a reason to blame others for our misfortunes, or use it as the reason to harshly treat others unequally and violently, then that is when religion crosses the line and no longer becomes a religion to me.
I find a lot of hypocrisy in religion, so much ignorance and hatred among religious people. It is as if they are holding onto the old ways, the old life hoping they can control others. These kind of people misrepresent the religion they blindly follow, and try to force or impose their beliefs amongst others they think are in the wrong. I have seen that too much in those 12 years and the years after on the news and in various events going around the world. Human history has shown that happen way too often.
Any failings or incompatibilities between religion and society, government, and economics should be blamed solely on those in control and at the failures of their own decisions, misrepresentations, and lack of tolerance, acceptance, and understanding of others.