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Belief in all-knowing, punitive gods aided the growth of human societies, study says
Los Angeles Times ^
| 2/10/2016
| Amina Khan, cheap labor reporter
Posted on 02/11/2016 12:45:38 PM PST by Reeses
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Another way to say this is the God advantage is real and can be measured by scientists. They've proven that God does exist for those that believe he does and even for those that don't. But not all religions are equal. Some have proven far superior to others.
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posted on
02/11/2016 12:45:38 PM PST
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Reeses
To: Reeses
Now that’s being replaced with an all knowing, punitive federal government. Well, punitive to the little people not in the ruling class.
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02/11/2016 12:48:30 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Reeses
What I find amusing is that the use of God in relevant political discourse and for the purposes of control has been done for millenia, even as far as back the Egyptians, yet the Democrats are doing everything in their power to destroy God and replace the controlling mechanism with “the State.”
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posted on
02/11/2016 12:48:40 PM PST
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: Reeses
Belief in all-knowing, punitive gods aided the growth of human societies, study says Another Trump article...
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02/11/2016 12:52:02 PM PST
by
Heartlander
(Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
To: Reeses; Nachum; governsleastgovernsbest; SunkenCiv
There is something to be said for the fact that EVERY society on earth since ‘society” was invented with agriculture has created, formed, or used “gods” and religious belief as a foundation.
Up until Marxist thought, and then today’s socialist-Marxist hatred of Christianity and Western civilization, that is. Now, it is the socialist governments who killed their 164 million in the 20th century that the socialists worship as “gods” ..
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02/11/2016 12:52:42 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Reeses
Belief in all-knowing, punitive gods aided the growth of human societies, study says Well duh.
All these arrogant intellectuals who think they know everything most shocked by the news.
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posted on
02/11/2016 12:58:42 PM PST
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: Reeses
Deuteronomy 4:19 & Malachi 1:11.
Barring immorality and crime, all stand to be saved.
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posted on
02/11/2016 12:59:42 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: Reeses
Its like governments being forced to adhere to a gold standard.
Knowing there is a higher power who will hold you responsible makes you a lot more cautious.
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02/11/2016 1:02:16 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: DiogenesLamp
And...the disbelief in all-knowing punitive gods aid the downfall of human society.
To: Reeses
G.K. Chesterton’s, “Everlasting Man,” remains well worth reading. Could have saved these folks performing the study a lot of work.
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02/11/2016 1:06:56 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Reeses
If that’s true, then what happens when the opposite happens? What happens to a society when its members STOP believing in an all-knowing, punitive god and start believing that they themselves are the alpha and the omega?
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02/11/2016 1:08:41 PM PST
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IronJack
To: Reeses
These social scientists are geniuses. Wow.
(Nature is going down hill).
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02/11/2016 1:19:54 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
The militant atheists don’t understand their own theories they trumpet.
Evolutionary theory supports the existence of God.
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02/11/2016 1:21:35 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: IronJack
If that's true, then what happens when the opposite happens? What happens to a society when its members STOP believing in an all-knowing, punitive god and start believing that they themselves are the alpha and the omega? They are following in the footsteps of the Neanderthals which were not religious vs. the Cro-Magnons that were.
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02/11/2016 1:40:58 PM PST
by
Reeses
(A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
To: Reeses
Sounds like they are saying that if God didn’t exist, it was good he was invented.
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02/11/2016 1:49:40 PM PST
by
Defiant
(RINOs are leaders of a party without voters. Trump/Cruz are leaders of voters without a party.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Robert A. Cook, PE. BTW, this is just a catechism about how EVEN GOD WANTS A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY, share and share alike, everyone a self-critical member of the team who doesn't try to have more by doing more.
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02/11/2016 3:12:24 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
It’s studies like this that lead me to question whether anthropology should be considered a science discipline.
To: Reeses
They needed a study to learn this?
To: colorado tanker
One of my old history professors cracked me up once upon a time by expressing worry that two of his doctoral candidates were at risk of becoming anthropologists, so he was headed to Mexico to help guide them back.
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02/11/2016 4:28:56 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
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