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| Quote (JLT @ Oct. 16 2010,05:35) | BarryA is a douchebag (10.15.2010 | 7:55am).
| Quote | We do not have to speculate about what happens when a society jettisons the truth for the atheist lie. North Korea is a glaring example. Mr. Putt, I am one of the few Americans who has visited that hell-on-earth, and I can tell you that it is a nearly perfect Nietzschian state. The strong few impose their will on the weak, who live in a nightmare of grinding fear, hunger, poverty, and despair.
And I learned something else that came as somewhat as a surprise to me. When a people ceases to worship God they do not cease to worship; they find a substitute. Kim Jong Il and his late father Kim Il Sung are literally (not figuratively) worshipped by the people of North Korea. |
Never mind, that (North) Korea never was a Christian country.
Never mind, that a lot of (originally) Asian religions are not monotheistic, so the people in North Korea never "worshipped God" in the first place, so they wouldn't need a substitute.
Never mind, that there're other countries with a comparable level of irreligiosity (according to Wikipedia, 65 % of N. Koreans are irreligious, although I'd treat statistics from NK, especially with regard to religions, with a grain of salt), in Europe e.g. France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. AFAIK, they haven't started worshipping authority figures in those countries, yet.
It couldn't be that the real difference is that France et al. are democracies and North Korea is not, eh, douchebag? |
Are you talking about these un-willing racist Darwinian islamo-fascist materialist societies that lack any moral standard and are ruled by Nazi-communist atheists praying to Mammon?
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"[...] the type of information we find in living systems is beyond the creative means of purely material processes [...] Who or what is such an ultimate source of information? [...] from a theistic perspective, such an information source would presumably have to be God."
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