Liberal Forum

  Guns are very loud in enclosed spaces like houses,schools,grocery stores etc.  A lot of people are putting silencer/supressors on their home defense guns.     ...

  Thanks! This will be the first 1911 platform I own. I'm becoming aware that they're a little more needy than the Glocks I'm used to.  It is a very good looking gun. ...

No doubt assholes populate churches too. I'm just saying if a belief in God trends toward some people acting better, what's wrong with that? Church-goers are not what I'm referring to at all... maybe not even "religion" per se. ...an actual belief in God....

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I have seen no evidence that religion causes people to behave better. I HAVE seen evidence that people are more charitable towards people more closely related to them genetically.  In a wholesome community where everyone is religious, you will also note that they are all the same race.  Once diver...

A very Ayn Rand expectation of the people at large. I'm merely talking about a basic trait of being a "good person". Not stealing, lending a hand, trying to not hold useless grudges, etc. For some people, "knowing" God is watching is all it takes to NOT murder some asshole. Growing a conscience is...

All animals will show altruism to their own family. That is an evolved instinct.for obvious reasons. A lifeform that does not do this will go extinct. Religion isn't necessary.  Now why have modern western countries become so narcissistic and amoral? Because we are not a family. Simple science. Jus...

Aspiring to a higher purpose and character improvement is beneficial. "Doing the right thing when no one is looking" comes to mind. If that seems difficult, for some a belief in God serves the purpose. What's wrong with that? --- Why would you feel the need to be a good person? (This assumes you ...

About 200 years ago a man named nietzche predicted the decline of Christianity ..which he considered to be inevitable and impossible to reverse even if we would want to.  He also predicted that the resulting nihilism would make the 20th century the bloodiest century in human history. Which it was. ...

I have a simpler answer. What changed is total Jewish dominance of all our institutions....which actually happened decades ago...but now we are getting the consequences of that. ...