<p>Lol. You guys might be interested in watching this Delaware bit from the Daily Show last week! It’s about the cultural divide between the north and south of Delaware. Very apropos to this discussion.</p>
<p>The Delaware part starts about 4:30 minutes into it and you can drag the marker to go right to it.</p>
<p>Assumption. Wrong. I don’t speak for you; why do you insist on asserting what I have done, or what I know? If you must, could you summon even the slightest amount of competence in doing so, instead of making bizarre and random assertions that are as wrong as the ones you have defecated out in your last post?</p>
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<p>Thank you for drawing attention to that which is, was, and will be clear to anyone who is capable of rudimentary thought. In your anthology of obvious statements, does this come before or after “The sky is blue?”</p>
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<p>They stand by themselves from the perspective of those who are willing to admit that they were wrong/the arguments were right. I meet persons all the time who are unwilling to confront reality, and not only/necessarily in theology. Basic understanding of economics is a good example, global warming, etc. Furthermore, the question of a God does not address the question of “which God” in all situations; I seem to encounter the “faith” perspective more from specific religions versus belief in God, but I defer to statistical models here, should they exist.</p>
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<p>Given that I have not posted much, this charge of misrepresentation should be very easy to substantiate. So do it, so that my lack of credibility may be on flagrant display to all.</p>
<p>About the teen pregnancy rate in the south (or rural areas) – in rural areas
girls tend to marry younger. I wonder how many of those 16-19 year old pregnant teens are married? Also, in rural areas, fewer kids are college bound, so they don’t see pregnancy as a crisis/roadblock–they are less motivated to prevent pregnancy. I lived in rural Arkansas for 7 years. There were many teen pregnancies. Most girls wanted to have babies. Typically, a (single) girl’s mom would take care of the baby while the girl returned to school. And many of the grandmas were happy to do this. Also, I noticed that young (married) women wanted to finish childbearing early–conventional wisdom that “over 30” is “old” to have a baby–where in urban areas I think more women would say “over 40.” A cultural difference. </p>
<p>BTW, LOL at the Catholics/hugging, etc. (EF Catholic here. We don’t hug. We don’t hold hands. We don’t even shake hands. But our knees sure are calloused! --You will find less kneeling and more hand shaking/hand holding and yes, even hugging in OF.)</p>
<p>Baelor, you are an undergraduate student at Princeton. You have condescendingly suggested that I “check out a few books on religion and philosophy”, the implication being that you have read them. It’s true I can’t know whether you have read them as part of your college education or for outside pleasure, but you must be around 20, to me that indicates the reading must be recent. If you have not read them, then stop recommending them to others. </p>
<p>I’m really done with you on this. We have crossed the line into the personal insult and I do not wish to continue over there.</p>
<p>Given your subsequent responses, I see no reason to take back that suggestion.</p>
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<p>Why, exactly, would that be? Let’s say that I am capable of reading them and understanding the content at the age of 15 or so (understanding improves over time, needless to say). Is five years time span recent to you? Is two years? I’m still failing to see how anything but the most stringent and arbitrary assumptions can lead to your claims.</p>
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<p>Even if I had not read them, that claim would not follow. Even if I were making specific recommendations, that claim would not follow. </p>
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<p>Other readers will therefore be spared our inanities.</p>
<p>Your ingoing assumption is that Christian = normal, anything other = different. Why are you and your prayer to Jesus the norm, and the Jew, Muslim, etc. the “different” one?</p>
<p>Gee, and in college eons ago a friend said New Jersey was the nonstate, I guess she never even considered Delaware (we had a good college friend from NJ- one of the most gentlemanly guys I ever met, we had to train him to not open doors et al back in the early 1970’s). Reminds me of telling a med school classmate from (western) Iowa how we in Wisconsin considered Iowa to be a “hick” state and he replied that, no it was Nebraska that was the hick state- always one state over…</p>
<p>Glad the youngsters have decided to quit the supposed philosophical debate on this thread…</p>
<p>The rights of minorities are much more respected now than decades ago. Some regions have gone further than others in realizing some common practices are oppressive to others. Many do not realize that the separation of church and state in public venues also means minorities can’t insist on them being exposed to beliefs counter to their own. Listening to parts of a play you dislike is not the same as hearing a prayer at a sports event. Would others appreciate you drowning out the prayer with loud noise or complain that they couldn’t hear it? If they want to hear prayers they can go to their church- not on my time at a public event…</p>
<p>Gee, and in college eons ago a friend said New Jersey was the nonstate, I guess she never even considered Delaware (we had a good college friend from NJ- one of the most gentlemanly guys I ever met, we had to train him to not open doors et al back in the early 1970’s). Reminds me of telling a med school classmate from (western) Iowa how we in Wisconsin considered Iowa to be a “hick” state and he replied that, no it was Nebraska that was the hick state- always one state over…</p>
<p>Glad the youngsters have decided to quit the supposed philosophical debate on this thread…</p>
<p>The rights of minorities are much more respected now than decades ago. Some regions have gone further than others in realizing some common practices are oppressive to others (it is wearing to constantly have wrong beliefs heard). Many do not realize that the separation of church and state in public venues also means minorities can’t insist on them being exposed to beliefs counter to their own. Listening to parts of a play you dislike is not the same as hearing a prayer at a sports event. Would others appreciate you drowning out the prayer with loud noise or complain that they couldn’t hear it? If they want to hear prayers they can go to their church- not on my time at a public event…</p>