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<t>Ahso!;1396609 wrote: I think when one breaks it down, the true reason for the civil war was that the north and south both feared the other's version of christianity. However, they had to wrap their differences in something political (slavery) in order to satisfy the constitutionality of killing o...

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<r>This article is interesting (from another thread): Ahso!;1396241 wrote: Religion and the American Civil War "Both North and South championed the Bible in answering the dilemma of slavery, but in radically opposite manners. Northerners appealed to the spirit of the Bibl...

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<t>katsung47;1388073 wrote: US said Saddam was a dictator and activated a war on Iraq. As a result, Islamic extremists control Iraq and Iraq Christian suffered severe persecution. They escaped to Syria. Now US says Assad is a dictator and ..... Poor Christians, where will they go this time? <b...

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<t>Bryn Mawr;1396236 wrote: I don't see that it can be coincidence that the two overlie each other but neither do I see it as slavery caused religion. Loosing the war and the resultant poverty would be a far better bet as would the skewed demographic. In this timeline, wouldn't slav...

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<t>I'll have to watch the pbs documentary, but I find it hard to believe that the South found religion after the war. To me the general trend seems like religious interest has gradually declined over time. Back in the early days of America, hell-fire-brimstone preaching was fairly common...

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<t>To me it looks like both R and D parties have moved to the right, and converged to some degree because of this. But I don't think the GOP likes the convergence, they are moving even further right to get away from the Democrats (and even themselves). To some degree, it's an interesting political s...

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<t>Ahso!;1395890 wrote: I personally interpret the bible as pure slavery, but that wasn't what I was referring to in my post. What I was talking about is the idea that humans are God's special guests in life and everything else is there to serve God and his special guests. All that is required from ...

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If the science scores do not improve, the next round of pressure will be to dumb down the tests, or increase cheating.

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IMO instincts like paranoia have important value, since they represent millions of years of information boiled down to a single feeling or hunch. Natural selection probably weeded out the most optimistic and trusting of the species... they were clearly eaten or killed.

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Here are the slave states:

And here is the Bible Belt:

Do these images look similar, and is there a connection?

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<t>Accountable;1395808 wrote: Not a bit. Not at all. No one is criticizing a single preacher, but all religion. I'm in the Bible Belt, so when I talk about religion, I'm referencing what is around me locally. There are a couple "liberal" churches though these are struggling for mone...

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<t>I'm not sure that politicians are the problem as much as the core of the American political system. It was a bad design from the start, and has led to predictably bad results. For example, America was founded on the notion that people were too ignorant to self-govern (electoral colleg...

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<r>Ahso!;1395784 wrote: I realize you think you're insulting me with your continued accusation of paranoia, but you're not. My paranoia is a healthily developed adaptation which makes me aware of certain things that perhaps you're not. We all benefit by the healthy paranoia of others. Of course ther...

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<t>Accountable;1395779 wrote: What might be beneficial is to have a whole course on the Philosophy of Science. The traditional model of science that is explained in most high school classes is greatly oversimplified. Science doesn't really operat...

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<r>Or maybe Jindal believes that he has to do whatever the religious right tells him to do, despite his better judgement. If he wants to get elected in the GOP that is. Most these politicians in the GOP I suspect do not actually believe what their puppeteer tells them to say. <E>:)</E> Th...

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<t>Accountable;1395751 wrote: These schools are in competition with each other. If by some weird chain of events a private school was to insist on ignoring state and federal mandate to teach evolution (to the level that the students will pass a test the teachers are not allowed to see) and instead t...

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<t>Back in public middle school I had a creationist science teacher. On a personal level she was friendly and I liked her. Though as far as being a teacher, she was probably the one of the two worst science teachers I've ever had. Her job wasn't even to teach evolution, but she managed to interject ...

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Accountable;1395611 wrote: Careful, your bigotry's showing again. :yh_shame

Privatizing is one issue. But have you looked at the religious "educational" materials? Look at Pahu's epic post for an example. There's a lot of incoherent hogwash presented as science.

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<t>Accountable;1395366 wrote: Isn't "hoarding a cultural judgment? I don't get why you and Ahso insist on dragging my simple question to some kind of extreme. The criteria I clearly set was the taking from one in order to give to another who is not in need. That's a fair point, as i...

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<t>Accountable;1395361 wrote: An if it's not at the expense of the town? Then the "hoarding" (your & Ahso's word, certainly not mine) is okay? Perhaps, but isn't "okay" a cultural judgement? If the town decides to kill the guy anyway and take all his chickens, maybe they are in ...

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<t>Accountable;1395359 wrote: And does this theory extend to inanimate objects, or has my example distracted you from my point? The fight over the inanimate objects is IMO only an abstraction of humans fighting over resources. Political battles are typically a power-play of one grou...

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These straight male pastors spend an awful lot of time thinking about man-on-man action.

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<r>Accountable;1394934 wrote: Money is a medium of exchange, nothing more. If we had a bartering system then people would have chickens or something else instead of coins, paper, and bank statements. Would those chickens, then, belong to everyone? On my view, the chickens only belon...

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<r>My first choice would be to dissolve both political parties and start from scratch. The GOP has become a religious cult, and the democratic party is now the moderate wing of the GOP. My preference would be to ban the formation of political parties, and the airing of all political ads on TV and Ra...

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On a purely free market, despite how much a person manages to save up, a retiree would quickly be stripped of all wealth after they lose their private health insurance and have to pay for the first medical emergency out of pocket.

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The Wall Street Journal would say this. Though Wall Street was singing a different tune when they were in the welfare line not too long ago, asking for a couple trillion dollars.

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<r>Saint_;1392037 wrote: Again, both right and wrong at the same time. You talk of knowing concepts, which is much the same as patterns, but without a memorized set of times tables, you don't see the patterns at all. I asked a student what 200 X 300 was. He grabbed a calculator and replied, "0.6 rep...

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<t>I read through the notes some more. Assuming the live mlbtv script works, the process can be made a bit simpler with a little bash scripting. Something like this could work: #!/bin/bash # pull off last line of output to get base 64 url # i have no idea...

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<t>I did notice the note "Note: Because MLB.TV has changed their service dramatically over the years, mlbviewer no longer attempts backwards compatibility." So mlb.tv is changing the api frequently? Was mlbviewer installed through the repos or source? I wonder if manually downloading and compiling t...

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<t>IMO, the big problem with math education is there needs to be more emphasis on the conceptual and geometric meaning of math, less on memorization. The memorization aspect is really not even math, any more than memorizing numbers in a phone book. When I tutored math, I discovered that ...

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I'm not sure I totally understand the process of setting up a live stream, although sometimes it's not hard to write a quick bash script to string together a couple different command line tools. What would be an example of the commands used (and the output) to set up a stream?

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<t>Is this really a case where religious freedom being threatened? If the church employees actually practiced the religion (did not use contraception) the issue would be moot. There would be nothing to pay for because no employee would be using it. What the case here is about, is that not even membe...

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It seems "penny wise, pound foolish" that an insurer would pay for pregnancy and NICU services, but not pay for birth control. Though I suppose they may make more money by neglecting preventive care.

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<t>A curious thing about American politics is the alliance between libertarians and the religious right. Both groups have similar short term goals, but long term they could not be further apart. The religious right does not actually want personal freedom... they want to rule people's per...

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<r>Santorum is of course implying that the level of compensation a person gets is directly proportional to their contribution to society. Is that based on reality, or did he just make that up? If he looked at the larger economic picture he might be more accurate to say that c...

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<t>Kids are able grasp high-level math concepts at a fairly early age. But the important thing is the geometric/conceptual meaning behind the operations. Memorization of tables isn't really math, just memorization. For preschoolers, for example, you can get wooden blocks and put them in ...

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<t>Recently the supreme court ruled (in favor of church) that churches are not "equal opportunity employers" and they can hire/fire people for all sorts of personal things. For example, if a person is not a Christian, they can be fired, or if they eat pork, etc. This case seems to be similar. I woul...

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<r>Accountable;1385089 wrote: eta: And they're not trying to end it pretending it's about health. They're saying that paying for it is promoting it and is against their religion. Purely religious grounds, full stop, and well within their rights, imo. So lets all make up a religion t...

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It's a shame the Catholic church couldn't find this passion and energy when it came to getting their own sex-abuse scandals under control.

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Accountable;1383646 wrote: You can't possibly be serious. I feel foolish for having let you fish me in. I tip my hat to you, sir. Well played.

I enjoyed the discussion. No play intended... just some thoughts.

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<t>Accountable;1383605 wrote: :-2 Wall Street is not government. It's also not servitude, not an interstate transaction, and not in the purview of the US federal gov't. That's an interesting point, but I don't understand this distinction. Private ...

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<t>Accountable;1383454 wrote: You seem to think creative interpretations of plain English are simply innocent mistakes. I don't buy that for a second. Most politicians are lawyers. Lawyers are trained to view the law as an obstacle to be circumvented in order to get what you want. That's what they'v...

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<t>Accountable;1383449 wrote: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution - meaning those 17 clauses enumerated in Article 1 Section 8 - nor prohibited by it to the States - meaning anything the Constitution says the States can't do - are reserved to the States respectively, o...

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<t>Accountable;1383440 wrote: You're right. They should've put something in that says something like "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Let's ...

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<t>Just for reference, we are discussing the same document right? Section 8 - Powers of Congress 1. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfa...

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<r>Accountable;1383388 wrote: It falls under neither. The 17 clauses following the opening sentence in Article 1, Section 8 define what is allowed Congress in providing for the common defense and general welfare. If those clauses were not meant to define common defense and general welfare, the (1) t...

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<r>Accountable;1383260 wrote: Because their actions benefit the ones that are supposed to impeach them. Yes, that is their job, but that certainly isn't what they do, and hasn't been, by and large, for over a century. Don't let the political kabuki distract you fro...

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<r>Accountable;1383240 wrote: I'd like to see a difference in the indifference they show for the Constitution. It would be nice to have a President that understood that the Constitution is more than one of the words he has to memorize for the swearing in ceremony. Not regarding actual iss...

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<r>Ahso!;1383177 wrote: Sometimes I wonder if Gingrich is a distraction in the race to prevent Romney and Paul from going face to face. Paul would cause either Romney or Gingrich to appear pretty stupid one-on-one. And then with the media doing the fact-checking, Paul might begin to look pretty darn...

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<t>Accountable;1382970 wrote: Nope, but I am sure that whatever they were they're verifiable. Doesn't matter, anyway. It's status quo without Dr Paul. There's no important difference between Gingrich, Obama, & Romney. There's some truth to that, but it depends on what difference...

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