Near-death study: Brains explode with activity as heart stops

[nadinbrzezinski]

124. The young in the US are abandoning the churches

(And synagogues) at historic numbers. This has people in very religious strongholds in the US running scared.

We know that even in the Bible Belt there is a down trend in Church attendance.

Oh and china was a bad example...given Chinese history and the place Animals have in rural societies...we do equally horrific things to animals and nature here, based on the dominion God gave us over the Earth.

You want a better example, and it s just better, we are tribal, another thing we need to overcome if we are to survive, are more advanced European societies where religious attendance is at an all time low.

Oh and China, the party walked away...but the people still pretty much believe in their ancestors.

I respect people who pray...if you find peace that way...it's cool...but don't expect pushback when you post things like we need religion because that is the basis of morality. Hell, Judaism had the first food safety code (kosher what is and what is not) It's a desert, shell fish don't last, and cooking pork takes a lot of fuel...it's a desert.

There are people who are moral and ethical...and then there are those who are not...it's independent of how often you pray. In my experience...the people who go to church, synagogue...what have you...are less moral...but my sample is small. They justifie thse amoral acts with religion.

And people in the Bible Bell talk about the Ten Commandments...that's cool...the law is not derived from them, but British common law going way back, some of it to Rome...not Moses. That includes you shall not kill...this happens to be independent from the Ten Commandments. It's like every society reached the conclusion that killing your neighbor was not a good idea.

And the bible justifies kings, Britain started to move away from divine right and all that with Magna Carta, that also gave people the right to face accusers and be brought before a magistrate...no Bible required, just a revolt. We moved fully away from it, and have partially returned with imperial presidencies...but empires do that.

You know where I lost my religion? It was cognitive disonance. Mind you, I had been mulling that as a daughter of a holocaust survivor. I had to declare a five year old, horrific accident. A god that is good and just allowed all those people to die, and now allowed this. Yeah, yeah..free will...well, that day I walked away.

Well, I pretty much walked away and started to look at the true basis of it, and the real history. By the way, the real history is far more fascinating than the Old Testament for example.