bluegenes writes:
..Ireland's modern economy comes with increasing secularism, and coincides with the removal of religious laws, like those on divorce.
And it's my belief that the apostasy/secularism is a direct result of the materialism that has come about due to the growth of the economy.
bluegenes writes:
Racists may well have done that, and probably before 1859 as well as after, but no serious and good scientists of the nineteenth century would have put themselves on the top of the list, because the results wouldn't have!
Don't we all, even though we may not like to admit it, have a streak of racism. Science is objective, or at least is should be, racism is subjective. It is possible to have a racist scientist.
bluegenes writes:
If you're going to start.. and the overwhelming majority of the population were Christian,...And in the very Christian eighteenth century..,there was the wonderful Christian slave trade, run entirely by practising Christians, and also the beginnings of the takeover of your continent at the expense of its "heathen savages".
A Christian should be judged on what they do, not by what they say. As far as my continent is concerned, it continues.
bluegenes writes:
Have you ever met an indigenous Tasmanian?
No bluegenes, there is no such person. The state of our indigenous people is shameful.
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