Postby Steeler [Crawler2] » Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:45 am
Religious values are what created civilisation .To be civil would mean nothing if not for the values preached by religion.Secularism, however,is infact leading to the disintergatetion of society ,britain and usa are a good example.
As oppossed to those wonderful societies such as Saudi Arabia, Iran...... are you with me here? I'll take secular society with its flaws over religious society of any stripe any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
The family has been abundoned ie marriage and the governments have taken alot of power from those that must have it -paents -who now cannot be held responsible for the proper upbringing of their children.
This is hyperbole. Yes, there are issues there. But in the "good old days" there were issues with tyranical parents beating their kids into oblivion.
"Secualrism has created a situation whereby everything has become relative .The propblem with this is ,chaos is an inevitable consequence."
Again, like in the US??? Where would you rather live, the US or Islamic Saudi Arabia (and having lived in Saudi Arabia, I can give you the right answer on this one).
"If this is not countered society as a whole will be in danger since the ratio of police officers to citizens can never be 1:1 . In short the values of religion were and are what holds society together and not secularism or officers. We are lucky that most people are still civil ie still hold religious values eg most british people will not swear and if they do will imediately apologise etc"
Ahh the old fear mongering. Actually, crime is DECREASING in the US. You can be an atheist and have morals. Indeed most atheists are humanists with better morals than any Christian or Muslim ever had, at least when it comes to respecting other people.
"Earlier on you claimed that usa buys arabian oil at market prices
Maybe you forgot or dont know that market prices are in fact controled by the powerfull ,in this case usa eg When the war started and the oil prices sky rocketed america simply ordered saudi arabia to pump out ,was it a million barrels more a day or so thus reducing THE MARKET PRCE. Now would you do that if you could get double for half the produce ?????? "
The MARKET controls market prices, not a country, you knucklehead. Market prices are not dictated by anyone in a free market. The value of the commodity based on supply and demand dictates price.
"I would'nt .Market price means asking for the most that you can get for your produce so long as the demand can carry that. Both the demand and supply are interfered with by the powerfull thereby deciding what they want to pay for it"
And how do "the powerful" interfere with it? They control supply, relative to demand. The US pays the same price per barrel of oil as China or as Europe. There is a balancing act in which the suppliers are also involved. The US doesn't control this process anymore than anyone else does. This is a fiction. What all of you resent is the fact that Islam is an inferior socio-economic system (it's not even an economic system at all actually) and successful secular socieites, which will ALWAYS be more successful than religious ones, give lie to your illusion that a religious government would be better for the people. Theocracies, like dictatorships their close cousins, are evil. Plain and simple. I would NEVER live in one.