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The immorality in the former soviet union was so out of control that the atheist Gorbachev started talking about God to try to tame the people. What are your thoughts on this? Is a nation without religion, and no reason to live a moral life what you really want? Being moral with no foundation backing it doesnt work.

The main problem was the drunkeness of the people.

Doctor, I dont think that you can say that those Ideas stuck. Since I dont know anyone that has been raised like a pig.

Answer 1

Hi Matt,yes you are correct as I have studied the after effects of Glasnost and Perostrika and there has been little change in Russia and its satelite states regarding morals and poverty.
There were hundreds of thousands of Prostitutes in the former USSR and the number has grown greatly,the number of abortions is almost uncountable,and social sins have magnified out of proportion, there are now more alcoholics in Russia than any country on earth, and all this can be attributed to atheistic communism that tore the soul out of the country and left the peoples nothing more than slaves of the state.

Answer 2

You want to talk about morality, the supposed decline thereof, and God? This was published in the London Times in 1891. Tell me what you think after reading it...

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HOW TO RAISE CHILDREN

Hints to Workingmen by the Society
for the Diffusion of Useful Information
Among the Poor.

The ungrateful and immoral hesitation of many working men to marry, thus curtailing the supply of future labor, is inexcusable. Any industrious man can afford to raise children, and with proper management they soon become a source of income, enabling the parents to subsist on lower wages, increasing the dividends of employers and thus enlarging the support of church and state, and the spread of the gospel of Christian civilization and the heathen in foreign lands.

The proper time for children to be born is in the latter part of spring, when the weather is mild. Soon after birth the infant should be put into a pen in which is a plentiful supply of loose dirt. An old barrel or box, containing some straw will answer for shelter from sun or rain. At the top of the pen a tomato can, containing milk should be placed and a tube hanging from this with a nipple at the end will supply the child with nourishment.

Now, by this judicious and inexpensive arrangement the mother can be at work soon after confinement. It costs no more to raise children than it does to raise pigs, and the former are more profitable, for when put at work (which can be done soon after they begin to walk) they become a source of steady income; whereas a pig brings a certain sum and then is of no further value. It is indeed a waste of material to feed a pig, when the same food will keep a child. Nutritious swill can be had for little or nothing, and this homely food, spiritualized, so to speak, in the form of working energy in the child, can be transformed into wages. No labor is so profitable as child labor; and when such profits enable the employer to contribute to the spread of the gospel of light, in benighted heathendom, we see the blessings that flow from the proper use of swill, consecrated to the use of the Lord.

What working people need in order to marry and propagate children is not higher wages, but a spirit of humility and a recognition of the duty they owe to their employers. Let them bring up children in habits of self-denial and industry, and so make of them contented citizens, patriotically contributing to the wealth and enlargement of their country’s empire, and the glory of its industrial magnates and rulers.

F. R. HAYES.

Answer 3

I do not believe that religion is tied to morality. Atheists establish their morals without the fear of an angry and vengeful god. It's based on the ideals of human rights and the greater good.
People turn to religion to control people because it truly is the opiate of the masses.

Answer 4

I think you are spouting nonsense as usual. But feel free to provide us with sources so we can verify. Because this is what science is: you state your facts and findings, provide sources, and we will peer-review them.

ps. Most Russians are either Russian Orthodox or Muslim:

The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (Russian: Русская Православная Церковь Московского Патриархата), also known as the Orthodox Christian Church of Russia, is that body of Christians who are united under the Patriarch of Moscow, who in turn is in communion with the other patriarchs and primates of the Eastern Orthodox Church. In this way Russian Orthodox believers are in communion with all other Eastern Orthodox believers.

Answer 5

Which god was gorby talking about? As a communist he certainly wasn't talking about the Lord Jesus Christ.

Answer 6

that exactly what religion does.
It is a source of morality, however not the only one.
it is like guidelines..

Answer 7

may God help all of us

Answer 8

Yeah, well they had reason to drink.