Recent content by steve_bank

Israel was founded as a secular state. Separation of church and state is a general norm in the Christian west and it is always under attack. The RCC wants to get back into Italian schools. The RCC popes always try to insert themselves as a moral authority in world affairs. It is pervasive...

I had no idea who he is or why anyone would care, same for most in entertainment. I'd chalk it up as yet another self destructive abusive entertainment figure. Yawn. More of the news media filling time 24/7.

That is actually the issue for me. The oppressed Jews after attaining power quickly became the oppressor. Given the WWII Nazi experience I would have thought there would have been some empathy for Palestinians as the Jewish state arose..

Or gays. Before all this current conflict in Iran there were roving morality police. A woman or a man could be beaten for improper dress. Their are a set of approved hair styles for men. Afghani tn for women is horrible.

Out of curiosity. There are some cases I remember. Saudi Arabia extradited a Saudi national form a Muslim state I for what for religious comments in an email. I remember this one. I thought it was the death penalty, maybe I was wrong. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq14d438vx24o There...

Mu;slim states may not be police state per se, but they are religious states. Punishments for religious offenses. Anything said or written deemed as an an insult or disrespectt to god or Mohamed can be punished. In the past I looked at state papers of Mulish states. Typically it says you have...

Science is not faith based as would be said of a religious supernatural belief. The theist argument that science is as faith based as religion has been well debated in the past. Modern science is model based. I do not think laws or theories are the best terms. They are loaded terms open to...

The only thong I would say to all that is math aka models are not reality itself, they are a way of describing and explaining reality as we see it. So, naturalism as a philosophy is a way of looking at things, not provable. Good science has been produced by theists who would have rejected...

I see Russia as backwards. Russian went from an oppressive monarchy to an oppressive authoritarian system, Stalinism. Russian communism set Russia back and it never recovered. Putin is the old Soviet system, allegiance of client states bb force. The Spviet block states. Ukrainians kicked out...

I asked mods to delete. Wrong reference.

DrZ I am not going to repeat all the posts I made in response to you and others. I will say the basic conflict between Palestinians and Israel is over land. It began at lest as far back as the 1930s. Palestine Jews opposed relocating Arabs off teheir land to make room for Jews. Israel...

There is something unnatural about this thread. Anybody remember Mr Natural?

Fragmented politics? Central, South America. Africa. Brexit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secessionist_movements_of_Canada Alberta recently. Quebec secessionists in the past in Canada. Russia vs EU. Europe has just gone though a serious attempt by the far right to grow power. And of...

I speak Russian good. Boris, da, nyet. I would not use a translator especially AI on a public forum. I have no way to know what it may rreally infer. That Russians may not speak English shows how backwards they are.

For 2000 years Jews had carried a dream of regaining a homeland. Historical mistreatment in Europe culminating in the Nazi attempt to exterminate European Jews. I think it is safe to say Palestine Jews along with immigrants and refugees were motivated to establish a safe haven they could...