I love to read thought provoking liberal blogs. Unfortunately, most liberal blog posts amount to a series of Bush = Satan....... Koch Brothers = Satan's twins.
Rarely is their much to learn from such drivel.
I've been reading more of Walter Russell Read's blog and it's becoming a daily go to.
Here's an interesting piece on economic equality and atheism...........
In fact, some recent research reveals, it is almost the other way round. According to the American Sociological Association, the uneducated and the poor (often of course the same people) are dropping God like a hot brick; the ‘bitter clingers’ are increasingly better educated and more affluent than the unchurched.
As far as I can see, this is bad news for everybody. Atheists and agnostics like to think of themselves as smarter than the God-bothering trailer trash on Tobacco Road, and deeply dislike the thought that they are losing the argument among the most intellectually qualified and best prepared; religious people have to be concerned for the future of religion when whole social classes are dropping away.
It is also very bad news for the poor. The rich can actually get along without much religion; one of the nice things about being rich is that money can frequently shield you from the consequences of a weak character and bad decisions. If you are rich enough, you can do very poorly in high school but Daddy will have a nice chat with the college president after which the school gets a new gym and you get a slot in the freshman class. You can be pretty sure that the college won’t flunk you out or expel you without a lot of second chances and counseling.
Finish the read here.......
1 comment:
"...consequences of a weak character and bad decisions..."
What? A liberal used the word 'consequences', 'character', and 'decisions' all in the same sentence?
Oh right, consequences are only things that rich people buy their way out of. Hey liberal, did it ever occur to you that being poor IS a consequence, in and of itself.
Certainly today there are millions of privileged people that couldn't buy their way out of consequences of rediculous life choices, like drugs. Now they are poor. Why is that not justice in the book of a liberal? "The rich frat boy is living under a bridge. Ha!" Or does poverty by stupidity automatically make you one of the "good guys" in liberalville? Bumbling one's way into poverty is an automatic conversion to a grass roots democrat. That would explain a lot.
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