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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Actually, I was just referring to the comparison of religion and morality between Americans and Europeans, but you made some other good points as well.
OH, ok. Sorry to go off topic like that.
My take on Europe being "more moral" than us, according to the threads is I'm trying to restrain myself from laughing too hard. We're talking about a group of countries that stood by and let others put themselves in harms way for the last 50 years, ie: the Cold War (with the exception of England), who refused to do anything when they knew what was happening to the Jews in Germany prior to the outbreak of WWII, who actively tried to stop us from invading Iraq in spite of the fact that it was a known madman we were going to deal with who had poisoned his own people and was guilty of countless other atrocities. They have institutionalized euthenasia (not sure if I spelled that right...REALLY tired right now), cradle to the grave welfare, selective free speech rights, no right to keep and bear arms to defend themselves (the violent crime rate in England is up since handguns were banned), no right to privacy in their computer systems (by law citizens in England have to surrender their crypto passwords to police), are openly hostile to the Christian religion, are militantly securlar (a philosophy, btw), have state sponsored drug clinics (great idea that was!), the list goes on and on.
Their point about divorce is misleading, given that the marriage rate is also down, and the native European birthrate is DANGEROUSLY down. Europe is no longer controlled by Europeans given the massive middle-eastern migration to the continent.
These are the types of progressive results that atheistic socialist ideaologies have wrought.
Unfortunately many of these same issues are arising here, particulary with regards to the welfare state, selective free speech, religious persecution, and gun control.
We live in dark times, to be sure.