Liberal Forum

So american culture sucks. It didn't used to. Why don't you take a guess what changed?...

The one safe bet I could always count on was that tomorrow was likely - very likely - to look a lot like today. On Y2K I lived in San Francisco, and I didn't have so much as an extra bottle of water stockpiled. I have never been one to panic - to believe in any of that "the end is near" ****, Curr...

I grew up in the trailer park where violence should have been rampant. All of the ingredients were in place... poverty, drugs, alcohol, poor decision making. Yet, the only real violence was domestic disputes. What was the difference? First, when you left school... you left that world behind except f...

Well... There's the internet, where 11 year olds can watch Tijuana donkey sex shows. Wait. Okay. Give me a minute.     ...

True. Another argument against irreligion being a significant factor in violence.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_Finland Pretty regularly rated the happiest people on earth, also some of the highest rates of agnosticism and atheism in the western world. ...

and that is the only way life has changed since then? ...

When I was  kid in school, we had prayer daily. Now, we don't. And just look at us. Mass shootings, child predators, uppity ******. I am convinced that every bit of this would end, if only we had our school children intone, "God is great, God is good; Let us thank Him for our food, amen" before th...

I would place the internet/smart phones, ease of living, and greater economic fortunes as more influential than religion. The 3 listed affect all not just those who choose to be religious or not. ...

I don't believe it's a leading factor, perhaps not even causal. More of a barometer or a symptom of a decaying society.   ...

I have a hard time believing that lack of faith in God is the leading (or from your viewpoint.. the one and only) factor involved. ...