Isn't it sad...?

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How we forgot to bless our neighbors.. and now violence is overcoming our Nation?
How we've forgotten to kindly use our words toward eachother.. And now swear-words are all over 3rd grade classrooms?
How abortion is legal, because "everyone should have their choices".. and now 1.3 million babies go down per year?
How discipline has leaked out as Abuse.. and now how fast the word "I hate you" can spread across the Nation?
How we ask God to bless America, and he has.. but America fails to bless God?
How we bite our tongue before mentioning God in public..But swear-words are Nation-wide accepted?
How kids aren't allowed to pray in Bible, because that's a "religon".. But now they're putting footbaths in the colleges, for the Muslims?
How, ignoring the founders of our Country, who founded America for BIBLICAL PRINCIPALS - they want us to take the "under God" out of the pledge of allegience?
Isn't it sad...?

History? No, it showed just how much I know about this sick & twisted world.. And I'm glad that that isn't very much.
(the last part was correct, thoguh..)

America was founded on biblical principals! Don't you read your history books? Oh wait - school don't teach that sort of thing. Well i was homeschooled, so I was taught the "right way" hehe..

What about the Decloration of Independance? Why does our money say "In God we trust"? America was founded for Freedom - because in other Countries Christianity was illegial, so, they built America for Religious Freedom. I'm so surprised - that was like the first thing I was taught in my History books..

Believe it or not, Adam G, these were my own words - er uh, typings??

I like to hear/read all of your comments - but I would appreciate it a whole lot if you would try to edit out the bashing .. I agree, I shouldn't have said "the right way" when refering to my being homeschooled. And it was a typo, spelling "principals" .. But i didn't go bashing you about your little typos.. isn't there a forum that people can calmly discuss these issues without all the hate?
(If i portraied (SP) any hatred toward others, I'm very sorry - that wasn't at all what I was trying to get across)
and as for our Nation being founded on biblical principles, I won't apologize, that wasn't a typo.. I meant what I said, and said what I meant. It's only the truth.

Answer 1

agree with you 100% and it is very sad...

Answer 2

Much of what you said there is indeed sad.

It is sad that swear words are all over 3rd-grade classrooms, but this is not new. Swear words have always intrigued children because of their forbidden nature.

It is sad that people feel the need to have abortions because we do not teach responsibility and because people are so selfish that they will create their own children instead of adopting someone else's.

It is sad that discipline has gone down the tubes.

It is even sadder that you know so little of American history that you think the country was founded on Biblical principals when it was actually founded by deists.

It's very sad that you don't realize that "under God" in the pledge has made the country more divisible than before (which is highly ironic) as it was used as a scare tactic in the McCarthy era.

But when you learn more facts, then you'll really see how sad the world can be. And knowing the facts will better prepare you to combat this sadness.

Edit: I really, really hate saying bad things about homeschooling, but you are a classic example of what is wrong with it. You have been taught an alternate history, one that is not consistent with the facts. Fortunately, I have seen similarly home-schooled kids learn the truth about history. I'm sorry that you got such a raw deal.

Answer 3

What you consider to be "sad" many others feel it is free will.
You say we - but that is only including our belief system. I understand what you are saying, and you have expressed it well. However, we must realise that in all religious teaching, the real basis of every religion is to be non-judgemental.
If others are not doing what we feel they should be doing, we should see to ourselves, and send love to such people. You will never find two people who think and believe exactly alike. Every single person on this earth are unique individuals.
With regard to your last paragraph regarding the "founders of our country". I would guess that in those days most of the people that made up "Americans" WERE Christians. Since that time many, many different religions have come to the country to make it their home. Should they turn around and give up their beliefs because someone in history make a document that stated a certain religious principal.

Would you rather have a say Muslim or Hindu man or woman, stand up in court, put their hand on a book that they did not believe in, or would it not be more advantageous if they put their hand on their own religious book and swore to tell the truth. I don't think any person swearing to tell the truth, on a religious book that they do not believe in, would worry about whether they would be telling the truth or not.
Give them their own religious book, and they are more likely to tell the truth.

The Founding Fathers who founded America on "Biblical Principals," were all of the same faith, I presume. But these days that is not so. This wonderful mixture of races and religions are what makes a country great. To get on whith each other we must accept each person for who and what they are and not judge.

The one point I do agree with you on is the equal distribution of religious acts in schools and other places. If footbaths in colleges are put in for the Muslim students, then every religion should have the same rights in that same school.
Not just Christian, but Budhist, Hindu, Jewish etc. What is good for one should be good for another.

Answer 4

The Religious Founding theme having been bashed to death, I'll answer the abortion one. Abortions always existed and in even greater number in certain countries than now, but before they were done in secret :

"The number of abortions fell most in developed countries where it is legal compared to poorer countries where it is largely banned and considered unsafe, the researchers said.

Western Europe had the lowest abortion rate in the world in 2003 at 12 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44, the study said citing broad use of birth control methods as a reason. The rate was 17 for Northern Europe and 21 for North America.

Asia, which accounts for the biggest part of the world's population, had the highest number of abortions -- about 26 million in 2003. China accounted for about 9 million.

The report said an estimated 20 million unsafe abortions occurred in 2003, 97 percent of them in developing regions and places where the procedure is banned."

Answer 5

Aren't you a little young to be this bitter? Your observations are exaggerated and a very skewed perspective of life in this country.

And the formers of our constitution sited John Locke and the writings of Voltaire much more than any passage from the bible.

Was this just a very bad attempt at poetry? What you lack in insight and depth of reflection, you seem to try and make up in being arrogant and judgemental.

Answer 6

if you think violence is recent, read some history!! really

and our nation was not founded on biblical principals, it was founded to protect the interests of some rich white men - that's why all other groups in the US had no rights. Again, read some history

Answer 7

What you fail to realize is that the people you are talkng about are in the minority in this country. I'm sure ARA lobeyists would start a freakin revoution if certain feedoms were done away with.

Answer 8

What nation are YOU living in?

I'm not seeing anything of the sort....

And who exactly are these "biblical principals" -- are they the people running biblical schools? Or did you perhaps mean to say "principles"?

Answer 9

What's sad is how little you know about what you speak.

I'd be willing to bet this was copied and pasted from some website, and not the posters own words.

Answer 10

Actually, I think these are some of the things which make America great! Except for the whole Muslim thing.

They can't go to hell soon enough!

Answer 11

not sad, you're confusing causation with coorolation...

i suppose we should stop selling ice cream because as ice cream sales rise, so do violent crime rates such as murder and rape...

look at the ratio of atheists in society vs the ratio of atheists in prison, we account for about 10% of the global population and only about 1% of the encarcerated population...