You're right. The ironic thing is those MFS are probably the farthest from 'religious' than anyone else.Maybe the country in general.. but the folks that are passing the laws... not so much
You're right. The ironic thing is those MFS are probably the farthest from 'religious' than anyone else.Maybe the country in general.. but the folks that are passing the laws... not so much
We agreeMy personal opinion is self spirituality is a rejection of the church and organized religion which the country's ideology was built on
It may be at it's lowest publicly but unfortunately many people who are in control of making and instituting laws and policies are still very much driven by their religious conservatism. And those religious conservatives are basically seeing their decades long push to have certain things become actuall laws finally be successful in certain places.
America going backwards though man.
Religion is always at the forefront in the downfall of society.
I aint saying this to shit on religion btw. Like you religious and a person of faith, thats totally fine to live your life that way and raise your family in that way. No way you get me to say you right or wrong on how you living.
My point is when religion takes the forefront of how you try to run your society through laws, thats the begining of the end.
Because once you go down this road, it never ends with porn. Cause you start with outlawing abortion, then porn, then the next thing, then you outlaw gays, next thing you know you start outlawing other religions, and then you got nothing else to outlaw and you start outlawing different sects of your religion. All this happening is weakening you because you go from a society that had so much diversity pushing boundaries in all directions making you strong and the forefront of everything, to being a niche ass society thats policing its own citizens. And then in that weakess, you either split up with a civil war, or some other country who kept getting strong while you got weak smacks you around and takes your position as world police.
This wont happen overnight and ofcourse wont happen cause you banned porn. This will happen slowly, but surely will happen once you open pandoras box of trying to impose rules of a single religion in a society with diverse ass relgious beliefs.
That box is opened now.
America wilding.
Buy gold. Fuck the dollar.
There's a lot of shit that isn't good for people and the government shouldn't be stopping them from it unless it's illegalThe slippery slope is a logical fallacy. With that being said, I'm fine with certain regulations - absolutely. The Government should regulate things because we have a society to maintain. People want shit that isn't good for them all the time, the individual matters only but so much when the goal is a functioning society. I've no interest in incurring on the quality of life of the individual but pleasures like porn are not essential, especially if they have negative consequences on the whole.
There is a balance to be maintained between the individual and the society. In this particular instance, I'm fine with regulation. If demanding you prove you are 18 is too much to ask, I have real questions about the motivations.
100%Christian dominionism will only happen when God brings His Kingdom to earth. (Rev)
But as for Christian’s today trying to implement this, it’s unbiblical. In the Bible, Christ did not come to His people to be a political savior. He did not come to them to free them from Roman occupation. He came to deliver one message, complete one mission: to be the Savior of the world by way of His sacrifice to cleanse those who believe in His mission from their sins.
This is it. Nothing more.
Trying to push rules/regulations upon others is what the Pharisees did and they were harshly rebuked through scripture and sarcasm.
Our jobs, as Christians, is to bear fruit, love God and our neighbors. This includes showing hospitality and prayer even to our enemies. And of course, our mission, spread the gospel. Spiritual freedom from sin is much greater than that of physical, political nonsense.
There's a lot of shit that isn't good for people and the government shouldn't be stopping them from it unless it's illegal
I mean you could be someone who wants big government dictating everything and we'll just not agree on that
Forcing people to show their ID to look up some porn is some Big Brother shit that I'll never agree with
You imagined thisNiggas jerk off on here and then clean up and argue about Nas
Imo, whenever you start basing laws based on a religion rather than the needs of society, you open a can of worms thats very difficult to close.
Whereas the other side are seeing their goals to become actual laws as well i.e., gender ideology taking hold in various blue-dominated regions where kids are being reprimanded for not using preferred pronouns and boys are playing in girls sports. Teachers are creating secret LGBT clubs and not telling parents about it (regardless of where you stand, elementary schools always send notice of what clubs are available to the parents). It is now a hate crime to not acknowledge a person's pronouns in Oregon, it seems.
The idea that the republicans and conservative right are the big bad and are just running ramshack over the country is such nonsense. The liberal left is winning. Roe was built on a weak argument and it took the republicans forever to see it dead, they are about as incompetent as they come.
Ask yourself this if you don't believe me, what are you more likely to get in trouble for: Saying "I don't like homosexuals" on national television or saying "I don't like Christians".
Well saying either would get you in a shitload of trouble. But seeing as there's billions of Christians in the world that would cause more outrage. The left in running a culture war while the religous right is literally trying to write laws that change actual history and implementation of things that. The same religious right that's trying to rewrite actual history that people are taught because it goes against their Christian conservative values to talk about all the shit white folks did. All the "don't talk about racism because it'll makw my kid feel bad". Thats the shit that will have far longer reaching consequences than some liberal politician using pronouns.
Disagree. There are pros and cons to porn. There's also been research in it. Not to mention society has been better since it stopped being stuck up about porn, sex, and the human bodyNo, I don't "want big government dictating everything". I do not want anarchy, though. I know that if people are allowed to do any and everything they want to do, that will inevitably lead to harming others. Directly or indirectly. Given that we live in a society, our lives do not occur in a vacuum. People should be free to drink but we do not want them driving because driving impaired puts others live at risks and not just their own.
Again, I am fine with regulation in certain areas because I do believe in keeping the ship afloat. Since I am interested in keeping the ship afloat, I am very obviously not for a police state because that, too, is untenable. Porn has no discernable benefits for society but we *know* that it causes massive harm in certain situations (the porn industry itself is so incredibly predatory, the horror stories are wild). Trying to make sure only adults consume it is the least we can do.
You have no right to pornography. You can beat your dick to your refrigerator if you just can't keep your hands off yourself.
Disagree. There are pros and cons to porn. There's also been research in it. Not to mention society has been better since it stopped being stuck up about porn, sex, and the human body
You can also google the benefits along with the problemsThe Benefits of Pornography
AbstractThis chapter reviews the evidence that pornography can have a positive influence on individual’s sexual wellness, mental health, relationships, bodacademic.oup.com
Government dictating what you can look at could open up more restrictions as well as it has before
This chapter reviews the evidence that pornography can have a positive influence on individual’s sexual wellness, mental health, relationships, body acceptance, self-esteem, sexual knowledge, increase safer sex behavior, and self-acceptance in gay, lesbian, bisexual and other sexual minority individuals.
We found a significant negative association between reported pornography hours per week and gray matter volume in the right caudate (P < .001, corrected for multiple comparisons) as well as with functional activity during a sexual cue–reactivity paradigm in the left putamen (P < .001). Functional connectivity of the right caudate to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex was negatively associated with hours of pornography consumption.
Its difficult to say because the world is so global.What is the most functional and free country in the world, in your opinion.
Since we are talking about America, it'd be nice to acknowledge the context of my question as being one of American appetites. I hope you'll consider answering my question again. I am certain everyone would agree that it is certainly less acceptable to dislike the LGBT crowd that the conservative crowd given all the late night hosts make their living off clowning republican voters.
Past that, I think the breaking down of the family structure, the complete denial of science and biology, and the policing of speech in such a way is a bigger threat since the thing you speak of are just crazies complaining and the people I speak of are the school boards and teachers in charge.
I am completely on board with your criticism of the right. I'd like it if we could also acknowledge the threat of the left. There is no one bad guy, frankly "bad" rarely ever exists. It's just people with very bad ideas; and neither side has a monopoly on them.