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By Lenar:
Stillness, welcome to Spiderweb. You will find that most members are either agnostics or hard-core atheists.

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Originally written by Stillness:

It feels right and natural and we’re happy. I look at family and friends who don’t do things God’s way and they simply don’t do as well. My experience tells me that and the statistics I gave you all support it, so I know it’s not my view.

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Originally written by Stillness:

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Originally written by Jumpin' Sarcasmon:

I would be remiss if I failed to remind Stillness that this is not a religion of God. It is, and always has been, a religion of men.

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Yes, I am reminded that you keep making this claim with no evidence at all to back it up or refute the proof to the contrary.

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Originally written by Stillness:

Physical nature itself tells us that men and women are different and have different roles in the family arrangement. We now know that our brains even work differently (as if we needed science to tell us that). It's clear to me that when the roles are dictated by the Bible, which says that men and women are complementary but different pieces of a whole marriages are stronger than when the values of this society are followed. Just like two brains on one body or two steering wheels in a car, two leaders in a family would be bad. One leader who does not abuse his authority, loves his wife, considers her first, and follows Jesus' example in self-sacrifice and serving others works beautifully. Women and men are both happy and satisfied. I see it and live it. That's the kind of logic and proof that I used when I selected the religion I wanted to be a part of. If it wasn't practical I wouldn't go for it.

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Originally written by Stillness:

“Our technology has improved and there are more people to kill” is not acceptable as an excuse for “the best times in history” when 57 times as many people were killed than in the centuries before it if you average them out. Maybe for you it’s OK, not for me. It’s also not OK to keep seeing genocide rear it’s head.

” Since 1989, 97 out of 103 armed conflicts were internal. And 70 percent of all war casualties since World War II have been civilians, rising to more than 90 percent in the 1990s.”

This is from the same study that I quoted from earlier. This is also quite troubling. And it’s not like we’re learning, because at this very moment the country that I live in is engaged in this very type of war where anywhere from 70-100,000 (and possible more) civilians have died. In the country in which I live there is slavery. In the area I live in, Detroit, living standards are decreasing for the majority. The middle class and the poor are getting poorer. Children are having sex at a younger age, getting pregnant, diseases, are emotionally ill-equipped, and are more violent than in just a few decades ago. More people divorce than stay married. And these are just a handful of the problems.

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If I can sum up your point as follows:
As humanity strays further from the teachings of Christ, we become more apt to murder,rape, and commit acts of gross atrocity. To wit, we engage in acts of mass war which decimate the population at an unprecedented rate.

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Originally written by Stillness:

I didn’t say that there weren’t large scale wars. I said there weren’t world wars. That was absolutely unprecedented. Technology played a great role in the wars, it always has. It didn’t make them world wars though. The Americas were discovered centuries before 1914, yet there were no world wars. If you don’t think there is anything else unique about them then check the civilian casualties.

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Originally written by Stillness, 12 hours earlier:
Disregard for Human Life: In the past century more blood has been shed in wars than in the 1900 years prior to that. High regard for human life (which Jesus taught) would not allow for war. Is that arbitrary?

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