It might not be a big deal in the States galrads but the vast majority of people in the uk at least have never held a firearm. I think it's a valid question and I'm surprised by your unnecessary derision.
Her profile is still on here but she has been banned from posting for a couple of years now. I see her quite often and she does ask if you are still posting.
Not really Mike, although what you say has some merit.
The irony of it all is that your message, the use (or maybe mis-use) of the word 'god' is the very thing that detracts from that to which it is supposed to be guiding us towards.
You put your left arm in Your left arm out In out, in out, You shake it all about You do the Okey-Cokey And you turn around That's what it's all about....
Ok Mike, I'll give you the rest of the quote, see if it becomes any clearer...
"When institutions prevail over private experience, the oppression will manifest as depression and reification, precursors to the horrors of pogroms and crusades. This is the meaning behind the critiques of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche in the nineteenth century and the so-called “death of God” theologians in the twentieth. Each had observed that the imago Dei ossified and ceased to move its communicants to awe. In time, the momentum and self-interest of the institution can even serve to prevent people from primal, religious encounter which could actually threaten its stability and the social vision it guards.
As Jung said, the gods had become diseases. The names they once rendered luminous had become husks. As I have previously noted, the oldest of religious sins is to worship the husk after the energy has departed. It is called idolatry, and we have raised up many false gods in our time. Consider our contemporary Pantheon: plenipotentiary Progress, massive Materialism; heroic Health; normative Narcissism, nasty Nationalism; sophistic Scientism, and many others. None saves, none connects, none abides, and we all damn well know it."
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Atheists are 'more intelligent than religious people'
Yes, I think there is a study to determine that studies are not worth the paper they're written on.