JMH

What do you want to discuss? The morality of man? Religion? Global warming? War in the Middle East? To try to tie these three topics together into one thread leads to an impossibly large discussion, so here are some responses:

Morality of Man?
Men are evil from birth and have been so since Adam and Eve where expelled from the Garden of Eden. That is why men never learn from history and continually kill and harm each other. In this imperfect world, if you on a personal level and nations on a national level are not willing to confront evil both in violent (war and fighting) and non-violent ways when necessary than evil people and nations will conquer and destroy you.

Religion has been and is the cults, that define cultures and form the mores and values of cultures, be it a tribal religion that governs the behaviour of tribe in the remotest areas of the earth, a highly organized religion such as Catholicism or incredibly violent repressive religions such as Islam (as represented by Sharia Law and Wabbiasam)Whatever your religion, religion brings order to society (look at the moral collapse of the morally bankrupt socialist, Nazi and Communist European countries to see examples of countries who try to outlaw or minimize religion). Consequently, the power of religion can and has and is used to control and dominate people and nations. The USA is unique among nations in that although its government and law is heavily influenced by Christianity, it's people are allowed to determine their own religion and this to some extent has spread through the America's and to Europe, although it is now threatened by the rise of materialism, Socialism, Atheism and Islam.

Global Warming? Scientific and Political hype, there is nothing man can do to stop global warming anyway, the greatest scientific minds devise weapons to kill and maim, but humans still do not have any control over the weather, ocean currents, Teutonic plates, magma and the earth's climate cycles. Liberals can't have it both ways, first the world population is to large so they support killing babies with abortion to control the world's population and now that the earth is starting a natural cycle of global warming that would correct the imbalances created by humans than these liberals complain, and moan about how many millions of poor souls this "Global Warming" is going to kill. It would be far better to concentrate on more basic things, such as a replacement of fossil fuel with a clean and renewable energy, preservation of fresh air, fresh water and a sustainable food supply. The earth's climate will change and the poor will suffer horribly and the rich will survive and become richer than they were when it started just like what happens in most world disasters.

War in the Middle East:
The first human wars were fought in the Middle East and the last human war will end in the Middle East. The Human race started in the Middle East, consequently it should not be any surprise that the Middle East is the center and source of human wars. What is different now, is technologically advanced economies use fossil fuel, so the greed to control and buy/sell Oil from the Middle East has only intensified the wars that have always troubled the Middle East. Also, mankind now has weapons that can destroy entire countries in minutes, which makes war far more dangerous than it has ever been in known human history. The only time the Middle East has been relatively peaceful is when it has been occupied under control of an empire (Persian, Greek, Mongol, Ottoman, French/British). In addition to this, the long running Israeli-Arab/Muslim blood feud continues with the ancestors of the illegitimate sons of Abraham (ie Muslims) who are cursed to fight each other and all other nations until the end of days when they will be destroyed (along with the most of the population of the world) in the final battle, near Armageddon.