Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Another 7 Taboo Questions About History and Society" video.

  1. That or boil religious philosophies down to their core value/s I don't know enough about other faiths but aside from the redemption part, Love they neighbor as you would love yourself. That's about as core as Christianity gets.
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  2. The way some portions of Western and especially the US societies mistreat Christianity is really bothersome to anyone who really takes the teaching in the Gospels seriously. Far too often in my opinion "christians" in the west will cherry pick certain parts of the bible to support their contradictory views or beliefs. The biblical justification for slavery is but one example. Another is the treatment of certain version of the bible being treated as though they were handed down from the literal throne. I'm looking at the KJV version here. Yet by and large talking about about some of these things is taboo in American (1) society. Yes atheism (2) will criticize religion in general. But to me it seems not get to specific in terms actual points. Then we have the whole arena of Wokism. Wokism in my opinion and others is the newest religion on the block. It certainly has some of the trappings of religion. Certain core values and beliefs that are not open for debate. And if you do dare to disagree you can face being shunned or banished. Also known as cancelled. But by far the worst thing in Western societies today is there far too little civil discourse (3). The public conversation is dominated by the fringes with the majority in the center feeling their voice can not be heard simply because any rational debate is not allowed. And both sides are quilty. 1) Yes their are other countries in the Americas. And their citizens could lay claim to being called Americans. Tough luck. The US got there first. Live with it. After all it's not the most important thing in anyone's universe. 2) Can atheism be considered a "religion"? I think so. Any philosophy with a core number of beliefs can be as far as I'm concerned. 3) In some ways the media us to blame for this. As long as there has been media be it the town crier to todays broadcast and internet there has been bias in the media. In the era of print media some newspapers were literal organs of political parties. To the point the papers were literally called blank Democrat or Republican. But there were papers with a more centrist leaning. With today's media I see nothing in the center. And very little anything moderate from both sides. No wonder we hear discussion about a possible civil war.
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