Yep...and blind to our faults, just as the Bible cautions. I refer to the Bible because I think it speaks to you, but that caution is in all decent philosophies.
Democracies and true Republics don't war against each other
I don't think that's true. I think it's just currently trendy propaganda. Certainly the classical Greek city states warred against each other. We had no trouble decimating the 5 civilized tribes in our thirst for wealth and land. Nor in seizing half of Mexico when we wanted it...or in taking Panama from Columbia. The European colonialists were far more democratic than those they conquered...and far more greedy and agressive. And they didn't hesitate to battle each other. Sorry but I think human beings are basically greedy pigs with a very thin veneer of civilization and respect for law.
It's the Left that seeks to corrupt the sexual innocence of toddlers, destroy families and impose lame appeal upon appeal in efforts to prevent the swift sure capital punishment of pederast 'priests' and their ilk
Yeah much of the modern Left has gone off the deep end...but you are too kind to your own. I recently watched a great movie about surfing "Riding Giants" which casually mentions that the Calvinists killed surfing because of its supposed immorality. Also Hawaiians have a saying "In the beginning we had the land and they had the Bible. Now it's the other way around". True. Too, too, true.
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Certainly the classical Greek city states warred against each other. GRANTED, UNDER AUTOCRATS.
We had no trouble decimating the 5 civilized tribes in our thirst for wealth and land. VARIOUS GROUPS HAD VARIOUS AGENDAE; MANY WERE CONTENT TO LIVE IN PEACE ALONGSIDE. OTHERS WERE RAPACIOUS.
Nor in seizing half of Mexico when we wanted it...or in taking Panama from Columbia. DISAGREED. FOUGHT, BOUGHT and PAID FOR.
The European colonialists were far more democratic than those they conquered...and far more greedy and agressive.
MORE AGGRESSIVE? DISAGREE. AND NOT INTO HUMAN SACRIFICE LIKE THE MAYANS ETC....
And they didn't hesitate to battle each other. AGREED BUT THEY WERE SUBJECTS OF MONARCHS.
Sorry but I think human beings are basically greedy pigs with a very thin veneer of civilization and respect for law.
GUESS WHAT? TOTALLY AGREED--THERE, BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD, GO I.
Cheers.