the matter is why ?

I would say lack of trust, lack of education, and fear. And i would not forget susceptibility to fake news.

Mriana Do I sound like I care? I don’t even believe trade unions will be dumb enough to cave into not getting vaccinated against COVID-19, especially after what happened to the meat packers, who BTW are getting vaccinated, if they aren’t already.

SUD, a French trade union is calling health workers to go on strike to protest against com…[Read more]

 Religion comes from within us, not from outside intervention.  Take responsibility for yourself.

It sums ut nicely the whole for me, and justly.

Know thyself, complets it.

As long as humanity does not know itself it will be limited in its progress.

One can use logic to an irrational view of the world.

Like any common consultant knows, the correct answer is always It Depends.

If the appropriation is for exploitation – just for money, fame, etc – then, Yes it is wrong.

If it’s simply for interest or admiration, “Imitation is the best compliment” … or something like that.

Something in between?  It depends.

I have a summer outfit in wa…[Read more]

I am fully vaccinated, so is my wife, so are most members of our families.

Why do people resolutely don’t want to be vaccinated ?

Misinformation, fear, lack of trust in government, science and ” main stream media”, underplaying the disease form a very powerful mix.

An exemple: in France, in hospital, half of…[Read more]

I have much enjoyed our exchanges theses last months.

I will be off net from to day up to the 5th of august.

See you

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I have practiced table top role playing game since 1980 and i have never practiced witchcraft.

Before the Bols was the Tzar. Now there is  a dictatorship for you!

For me, no thanks !

Russian democratic history is very poor, let’s say that neither Tsarism, Bolchevism  or Putin tempt me.

My utopia would be anarchism…..

For those interested, i advise them to read “the left hand of darkness “, from Ursula K. Leguin.

If you break the global states in autonomous entity, each having its own money, you give power to local rulers and big corporations. In such a schema, democracy is a loser.

In France, administrative decentralization was set by a leftist government in 1982. The results are not convincing…[Read more]

After that, the Catholic Church and its conservative dogmas arguably…[Read more]

I say this here because I think society as we know is corrupted in ways we can see and understand and the ways to fix it are available to us.

I cannot answer for Lausten, i can answer for me.

Society is corrupted by money, by capitalism, by individualism, by fanaticism and by egotism.

The four are linked.

The way to repair our society…[Read more]

For them a miscarriage is an abortion.

This would make me cry:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/miscarriages-abortion-jail-el-salvador/

USA are not immune …

ttps://www.businessinsider.com/women-30-years-prison-miscarriage-georgia-abortion-2019-5?IR=T

Europe e…[Read more]

But the original question was about the passengers of the Titanic. And both answers are right: the passengers could have prepared themselves to survive, but it would not have prevented the ship to hit the iceberg. In fact, at this time, it was too late for that, as the passengers had no reason to take mesures to…[Read more]

The Court of Cassation, the highest French court for civil and penal law,  decided that in 2001, in its most solennel formation.

The fœtus had been killed in a car accident and the mother wanted that the man responsable of the accident be condemned for homicide.

To sum up the case, the qu…[Read more]

I think that abortion is a right of the woman who needs it.

But that’s becoming circular.

I will agree that abortion is not a miracle solution and that the best solution is to prevent pregnancy.

@dad1, if you are against abortion, which is your right, you should…[Read more]

I agree that even needed, it will not be enough.

One priority is to reduce our wasting of natural ressources and pollution of oceans and air. And that means rebuilding our whole way to…[Read more]

Center of USA is affected by desertification, tornadoes and extreme temperatures.

It is urgent to plant forests.

Easy, possible, and effective.

A complementary mesure: to give up monoculture and industrial crops.

In fact, Christianity is symbolic cannibalism. The faithful eats the corpse and drinks the blood of his god during eucharist. And catholics take that litteraly.

The remembering of the great sacrifice Jesus made for our eternal life has nothing to do with cannibalism. Someone makes a thread seeking truth and you offer blasphemy.…

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Now, we know that it was caused by the movements of the tectonics  plates.

We know that Himalaya mountains were created by such movements.

And we know that the north African plate is coming toward Europe and that it will cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

No…[Read more]

About cannibalism :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cannibalism

In primitive societies, cannibalism was often ritualistic. Eating noble parts of enemies bodies meant to appropriate his vital strength, his virtues.

If you read the 10 commandments, it is easy to perceive that they form the basis of social life in a primitive society, making…[Read more]

I think that you are entitled to your faith.

But whatever the topic, you use 4 key words, Jesus, bible, faith and sin. and you dismiss science as fable.

This topic is about Climate change and you attribute it to man sin, adding that man cannot save himself and that Jesus will save him.

I sum up, but i think that i am fair !

For me, what…[Read more]

Control of sexual life is a powerful way to do it.  It generates frustrations and negative energy which can be used to other ends.

When you control the sexuality of people, you have a way to control their minds.

And if you forbid contraception and…[Read more]

It would mean we exit from capitalism …

And  anything so mad it seems can be believed, but some beliefs can be highly toxic.

https://birdsarentreal.com/

We will not convince each other and these exchanges are repetitive as to each fact we present, he calls it lie or fable and to each religious belief he presents we tell…[Read more]

Believers can still marry. Just because some silly church outfit went against nature and the bible does not mean belief and following Jesus evolved! That just means that some churches have departed from the scriptures. That is in fact a sign of latter times. You also indicated that that faith of God (‘religions’) originated by some process of…

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About age of earth and universe.

Faith gives us roughly 6000 computed by religious men, having deducted it from a controversial reading of scriptures. Theses scriptures are the work of men who wrote them according their view of the world.…[Read more]

–evolution led to the development of culture, including religions–

Prove it! You are making stuff up and pulpit pounding your religion. There is no basis in fact for your claims.

Please, read some history. History of religions is a topic studied by many people, including religious ones.

Christianity evolved  from its beginnings to his pres…[Read more]

I’ll admit I know very little about either, but at first glance, those two seem more complimentary than exclusionary.

I agree, at one condition : that the identity of a human being not be reduced to his race, when the other social determinants are as important or more important.

A rich black man will face discrimination, but he is much f…[Read more]

I was interested by this answer, now that you are back.

https://centerforinquiry.org/forums/topic/why-not-an-history-forum/

CRT is neither left wing nor progressive in its socioeconomic analysis. It’s criticism here  in keeping with the general discourse in America is from the right. It cannot explain the extraordinary and growing wealth gap in society as a class analysis can.

There, i tend to agree.

You believe in the christian god, I don’t. You cannot prove it exists but you have faith. Faith is behind reason but to believe is a right. existence of god cannot be proved or disproved. I believe that as long as it cannot be proved, he does not exists and that in fact men create gods according to their needs and that their creations…[Read more]

We are happy to be able to read you again.

Please would you answer again my question a forum about history ?

People are welcome to their beliefs but not welcome to pretend they are more than that.

I fully agree, but then you must admit that belief in god a belief among others, no more, no less.

Take care and beware:

– Utopia means nowhere …. Perfection is not in our world, whatever it appears to be. And ideals change. In More’s Utopia, slavery is a fact.

– More, all utopian states are totalitarian. All people share same way of living, same ideology, and there are not dissenters, or these ones are cri…[Read more]

On the other hand NO Christian or anyone else has ever killed because Jesus told them to!

May be Jesus never told to kill anyone, but christians have killed because they thought that their faith impelled them to.

For instance, heretics had to be killed, witches, homosexuals, and i am sure i forget some. I will not speak about the crusades…[Read more]

It depends how old it is !

Certainly not before the 10th week…..

A Nubian dynasty ruled Egypt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Dynasty_of_Egypt

There are contradictions,

After that, it has been copied, changed intentionally or not and translated before being interpreted.

The fathers of the church knew that Bible was not literal truth per se in most of his contents.

For instance, some people have tried to deduct…[Read more]

@laustenNot seeing your evidence Morgan. Like “Why is there not a history forum”, right in this section. CC shows as the most recent post, but, don’t see it.

I thought I read a recent post in a general forum. As i did not kept the link, i cannot find it again and check the post. It seems I was wrong.

In the French language, the expression “doing the ostrich” expresses the fact that a person refuses to see the truth in the face. This popular quote comes from the idea that the ostrich buries its head in the sand as soon as it gets scared. But this idea is completely wrong! If the bird is frightened, it runs away or defends itself with its…[Read more]