Impossible to say, Religion influenced quite a long period of time which limited the possibilities for Humanity. Anything, quite literally, could have happened to Humanity if God was never involved. Imagine if the world was discovered to be a globe much earlier, Science develops faster...
Is it really wise to use the Bible to defend Christianity? I think not. The objectivity of the Bible is just, non existant. Really.
Additionally, as previously posted, some denominations believe that the Bible isn't to be taken literally, that it's more of a metaphorical story. Or is that...
I'd like to see some evidence for that.
Just noting that I'm highly doubtful of any form of sophisticated written language that old. Anything older than that, written (visuals, etc) or spoken can't be seriously considered as it could easily have been mis-read or changed by word of mouth.
Hopefully this "independent body" (hurr hurr) will not be as retarded as the last Blacklist that was leaked. If this independent body bans Child Porn affiliated websites etc, then all is good. But thats about it.
You know what should be done, damage control.
Islamic leaders should openly attack extremists. Why? Because currently in the eyes of a lot of ignorant people it would seem that your leaders are almost endorsing their actions. And trust me, if that happened, the media would be ALL over it. So...
IMO this is the best result. Theres no way to address both gun prohibition and self defence as there is no way to address both unemployment and inflation.
Re: BOS political compass scatterplot
Economic Scale: -2.25 (Socialist)
Lib/Auth Scale: 1.23 (Authoritarian)
Nothing major, just my personal views pushing the bars a little.
Yeah, this shits been thrown around before. A person's actions by no means resembles the ideals of a certain group, unless of course there is an obvious correlation between both the group and the person showing that ideal as a norm. But also you need to take in other motives, which the arguement...