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Originally Posted by HappyMartin
Seems to be at least 3 interesting themes in this. Religious beliefs in the USA, the validity of religious beliefs and global warming. An interesting sub plot to do with bad teeth and the NHS made a brief and to me confusing appearance so I will ignore that.
There are many polls and yes polls can be and are massaged but I have never seen one that indicated that the USA population is not largely religious. After 9/11, sales of Bibles went up 27%. That is not a poll but sales figures and it seems to indicate something even if just religious coping.
As long as religion encourages people to be moral, ethical and good to each other I see no harm in it. Because people do bad things in the name of religion does not make the religion bad, it makes the acts bad. By the way I do not believe in God but do regard myself as religious.
It still seems that the judicious approach to global warming would be to be cautious and conservative. Lets take care of our home and all that live here, not only people
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The major problem with religion is the Bible. Some people take what is written there literally and think it is ok to do as it says. The Bible is not means to be taken literally. It's mean to convay ideas. But even then, some of the idea you can get from it are not ones we want people acting on. There is plenty of evidence that the Bible causes a lot of people to do things in God's name that a kind and loving God would not want done. Also, a lot of close minded people use the Bible to justify this way of thinking. One good example is gay marriage. Because the bible says homosexuality is wrong, a lot of people int he uSA are against it. It has nothing to do with a person's right to their basic freedom. It has to do with what the Bible says. I look at what's done in the name of religion to our freedoms and think we'd be better off without it. Even our president runs his life based on his religion. We are supposed to have a separation of church and state but we really do not. The Pope thinks it is OK to get involved when he doesn't like something. Politicians use their religious beliefs to ruin the country. The president won the last election because he use his religious belief that gay marriage is bad and got the close minded southerners to go for that bunch of BS. I know 9/11 was caused by extreme religious beliefs. if you look back in history, a lot of wars were caused by religion. And I do think a lot of politicians are a bunch of no good hypocrites. Whatever happened to "Thou shalt not kill"? If you going to run your political career using your religious beliefs to help you make decisions, then you better damned will listen to the 10 commandments and stop all the hate and violence.