“America was absolutely not founded on Christianity, but on the beliefs of the Freemasons, and it was the compromises they made with Christians that resulted in the Civil War. If you disagree prove me wrong.”

Where are you coward christian creeps when you are exposed for what you are?

JaCCoff and Phreedumb. God’s warriors are cowardly pieces of shit.

You are ankle biting chihuahuas. Loud and obnoxious, and serve no purpose but to shit on the carpet.

NeoWolfe

Except when I left the nest and realized that most people aren’t open minded- like the way I was raised- and honestly, quite bigoted.

I guess both really do apply, to be honest.

“That’s a pretty bold assertion considering that atheists only represent a little over 2% right now. And what makes you so sure present growth rates won’t change over the next two centuries?”

Response: Recently the vatican finally pardoned Galileo for his crime of heracy. He tried to education mushrooms like you that the heavens don’t revolve around the earth, but that the earth is in an orbit around the sun with the other planets. In return for his brilliance, they decided not to disembowel him, but to sentence to house arrest for the rest of his life.

The world is learning, the light is growing brighter, and you think that the next two centuries will find humanity returning to their embarrassing stupidity???? It won’t be atheist, and it won’t be muslim, it will be freethinkers.

NeoWolfe

All children are not born atheists. They have no capacity to conclude that there is no god or gods. Neither do they possess the capacity to decide that there is a god. Therefore, they are agnostics until someone fucks them up.

Someone fucked me up, but I recovered.

NeoWolfe

Based on greed? Greed is the desire for MORE than what is necessary or deserved. This seems like a personal, individual motivation, not the broad basis for an economic form. And “based on envy” doesn’t fare much better. Envy is the contempt one feels for not possessing what another has. It’s harsh to say that a system that wants equal rights for all (whether it be health, education, or income, or all of these) rises from contempt. As an example, I personally do very well, but I believe that crime and destabilization can be linked to poverty and lack of education, and so I am for egalitarian education and health care reform. I would certainly pay more out of my taxes if it meant that my health insurance and education bill went down. Again, this is my PERSONAL view and motivation, and so is as fallible as I am.

Capitalism is the ability to sell one’s services (or property). It can exist in varying degrees from a free economy to a centrally planned economy. This includes almost every country in the world, INCLUDING SOCIALIST COUNTRIES. America itself is a mixed economy, choosing to regulate certain aspects of capitalism. For example, in response to the Great Depression, the US created economic regulations that effectively prevented these depression cycles until the late 80’s when many of those regulations were lifted. (You want empirical evidence to support government regulation of an economy, this is it). These regulations sadly get labeled “socialist” as a way to vilify them and polarize the uninformed rather than allowing them to be judged on individual merit. They gain traction because people are suffering and desperate and looking for a bogeyman.

While I wouldn’t say capitalism has been “proven to be the best system”, it certainly seems pretty good, especially when tempered with regulations to close the dearth between its best off and worst off.