Comments by "Tim Bucks" (@TimBitts649) on "Ben Shapiro Notices Something About Dems Loss No One Noticed" video.
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Religious people tend to have more children than secular people. True in all races. Ben talked about this on Triggernometry, how in Israel, the most religious Jews, the Haredim, have the most kids, drive the demographics. He also said more or less, the same thing is happening in America: the more religious you are, the more likely you are to have a family. The most religious Christians are the Amish, who also have the largest family....and helped Trump win Pennsylvania in this election. Like the Haredim, the Amish are growing, in influence. Not a coincidence.
This is useful to know, for social policy. Trump likes Jews, as Ben Shapiro & Bill Maher agreed the other day on Bill's podcast. Trump likes Christians, very much. And there is a very strong alliance forming between Christians & Jews, breaking the historical pattern of antagonism, as we realize we have way more in common, than apart. Much inter-marriage too, as Alan Dershowitz wrote a book about this. Free online. The best general policy inclination going forward, is to do what you can in government policy, to help promote family.
This should be incorporated into Republican policy. It should be the party of family. Leave the cat men and women, to the Democrats.
Slowly America can turn over time, towards what it naturally is: a religious nation. Leave our secular past behind. Dr. Steve Turley, a Christian youtuber, talks a lot about this, on his channel. The future in America belongs to religious people of all faiths. Liberal people are dying off. Literally. Ben Shapiro has lots of kids. Bill Maher is a childless cat man. The future is religious.
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@oppothumbs1 I enjoyed reading your comments. My guess is religion is a quest, not a destination. It's a search for answers, not answers themselves. Faith is not knowing things, it's a search for things to know. In that sense science is religious. And in that sense, religion is scientific...being evolutionary. My guess is reality is infinite, the best of us see but a tiny glimpse of the greater reality. Like the famous Isaac Newton quote about him being a boy on a sea shore, picking up pebbles.
And I think life has a spiritual dimension, it's just an act of faith, but to me souls are real. I am not looking for consciousness in the afterlife. I understand your points on biology, very similar to my own. Similar to Jesus, too. In the Lord's Prayer, he says, "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." To me, that's Jesus acknowledging context, environment, the limits of free will.
I'm looking for a part of myself sticking around, in some form. But I don't want to sit around, singing with a harp.
My soul may pop up again, is my guess. Like in the song, "The Highwayman" by the group The Highwaymen....Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, recently departed Chris Christopherson. That song catches the feeling most closely, about what I feel about life.
My favorite book on religion is Infinite in all Directions, by Freeman Dyson. For me, faith is knowing full well I'm going to die, but hoping anyway, that some of me may remain behind, influencing people and events. and feeling this life matters, a great deal. Religion gives me the idea, my life is of infinite value. And I think it is. So is yours. I couldn't be an atheist, if I tried. For me, the logical conclusion of atheism is, life has no point. I can't believe that, don't feel it's true. It's of infinite value, even if this life is all there is.
I think the point of religion is feeling connected to people and I certainly feel that. For me, belief in God is not about saving my sorry ass from death. It's about feeling connected and meaningful, in this life, to other people. And I certainly do. My life has infinite value, but not in the narcissistic sense. My life is about other people, not me. And other people's life, is about me.
I'm not much of a theologian, that's the best I can do. That's what feels right to me. Thank you.
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