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The show is about the criticism of religion and this song is a perfect illustration of why - there is so much terrible suffering in the world - especially in Africa - that of course it is a meaningful idea to express maybe there isn't a benevolent and all mighty loving god as many religious people would suggest. Stop trying to tell people they shouldn't be able to express this idea. We are meant to be a secular society that can state these ideas.

I have followed no formal religion for many years. But I must disagree.. Freedom of religion is expressly protected by the First Amendment. Most of the early colonists were religious sects and religion was very important to most of the founders of the country. It is equally malicious to ridicule religion as it is race and and it is equally wrong to stereotype by religion as by race.

To become a civil and more inclusive nation no one should ridicule anyone's beliefs or practices as long as they do not hurt any others. Since no one knows what the hell we are doing here, anyone's attempt at an explanation is as good as that of anyone else.

I have seen this quaint notion before that religion is responsible for the evil in the world. Only eighty years ago a nation run by leaders that had no use for religion at all carried out the most successful program of genocide in history. Six million Jews, and another million of assorted others.The runner-up in the competition for greatest mass murderer of the West led a nation of atheists. We will never have an accurate count of all the murders for which its leader was responsible, as well aa all those whom he imprisoned in Siberia who mostly never got out alive.

As simple and appealing may be the notion that removing religion from the world would remove the evil from the world, evil will thrive with religion or without it.

If you were looking for a simple change that might bring about a more peaceful world, that might be turning over leadership to women. That might even come close to occurring in the future as women have been far outdistancing men in academic achievement for almost two decades now.

Updated On: 6/20/21 at 09:13 AM

OlBlueEyes said: "If you were looking for a simple change that might bring about a more peaceful world, that might be turning over leadership to women. That might even come close to occurring in the future as women have been far outdistancing men in academic achievement for almost two decades now."

When you look at leading indicators for countries led by women, the data certainly supports this.

One reads some pretty humorous stories about religion past.in Barbara Tuchman's book on the "Calamitous 14th Century." French knights between Crusades were a curse to the local French villages, as the knights easily made the transition from Crusaders to robbers, as they preyed on the villages. It reached the point where the French king made the trip to Rome to consult with the Pope about declaring a new Crusade, as soon as possible, to get the knights back on the road looting foreign countries. It was done.

The knights on the whole lead much less than exemplary lives, and had reason to fear for their immortal souls upon death. This dilemma was resolved by paying a local monastery to pray for them every morning after death. The prayers of these Holy Ones would save them from damnation.

But many people receive comfort from their religion during their times of greatest trials and I would never deny that to them.

For almost two decades now white and black black high school graduates (but not Hispanic) have been enrolling in four year colleges at a rate 10 to 11 percent lower than women of their race. Only 65% of the men who enroll graduate with a degree. Over the last ten years that's three million more women than men who have been awarded bachelor's degrees. The benefits of graduation, beyond an important requirement for many jobs, also include becoming more tolerant of other races and more impervious to demagogues. This has gotten little media attention.

I've already gone off topic so enough. But there is actually already a large black middle class according to the Brookings Institution. Instead of getting cops out of inner city, get young black men out of the inner city and into frat parties.

Owen22 said: "Oh I wasn't worried about the writers losing that particular nuance. I was talking about the public in general."

And now you also don't have to worry that I lost the nuance of your post because I get it now

@OlBlueEyes "One reads some pretty humorous stories about religion past.in Barbara Tuchman's book on the "Calamitous 14th Century." Have we discussed this book before? The title is A Distant Mirror, one of my favorites.

Updated On: 6/21/21 at 12:22 AM

binau said: "I hope the creatives do not budge for one second on the uttering of 'blasphemous curses'. This is 2021 not the Middle Ages - 'blasphemy' is not and should not be a crime or something to censor in a modern secular society."