This is historically false. Prior to the Edict of Milan in 313, Christians in the Roman Empire faced persecution. However, Christianity managed to spread throughout the Roman Empire without using violence. It spread among the Germanic peoples and even into the Persian Empire and India.
It wasn’t until 380, when Christianity (Nicene not Arianism to be specific) became the state religion of the empire that other beliefs were considered heretical and punishable by death. However, it was already the most popular religion in Rome by this point and there isn’t evidence that pagans were actually persecuted.
Thoughtful, to me, and I think many others, means something more like “given to thought.” Intelligence can be a component of that, but so is it generally a component of exploitativeness.
I’m not sure what you’re wishing me luck with - I’m merely saying that “thoughtful” is more likely to ensure a safe, orderly society than “religious.” When religious people are thoughtful, they do incredible good. When they are focused on power-seeking and acquisition, not so much.
I don’t happen to have a society’s worth of thoughtful people at hand, so I won’t be able to implement my excellent plan to live among only good people, and no bad.
Your typical atheist is an insufferably smug cunt… the arrogance it takes to say there’s no God when we know absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things
Saw their destructive policies far too many times…their psychotic vitriol online… their arrogance… their faux sense of moral superiority… and most annoyingly their complete lack of self awareness
Also, data generally says otherwise about democratic policies and the economy…
Published before Trump or Biden was commander in chief DemRep_BlinderWatson_July2015 (princeton.edu)
The paper also concludes that policies of either party do not necessarily predict economic success but there is a trend.
The Democrat Party describes of themselves the root cause of what becomes destructive policies. They proudly proclaim to be a Big Tent Party. What then evolves is a party trying to be “all things to all people.”
Two examples:
“No child left behind” supplants “the greater good.” In our schools children are promoted that are performing far below grade level. Class learning drops because many are there who are too undereducated to contribute positively to the class. They do contribute mostly disruption, holding the majority of the class behind. The result is many students are “graduating” extremely deficient in math and reading.
Men, self-identifying as female, are being allowed to compete in women’s sports. My guess is that the vast majority of Democrats oppose this situation. But because they are THE Big Tent Party and they must leave no child behind, they are party bound to defend the transexual “child” the rights of a biological female.
“The greater good” just makes too much common sense.
