Comments on: The US Didn’t Even Make the Top Ten http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/02/12/the-us-didnt-even-make-the-top-ten/ Where Faith, Opinion, Design and Technology Collide Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:25:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: PietyHill Press » Blog Archive » What If Christians Imposed Their Morality On Others? http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/02/12/the-us-didnt-even-make-the-top-ten/#comment-7704 PietyHill Press » Blog Archive » What If Christians Imposed Their Morality On Others? Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:24:05 +0000 http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/02/12/the-us-didnt-even-make-the-top-ten/#comment-7704 [...] So, back to the “what if” scenario: In western nations built on Christian notions of fairness and tolerence, Christians would be alternately vilified or lampooned in the dominant media and pop culture, yet slavery would be abolished, while it flourishes in Muslim societies and Africa. Every sort of sexual practice and gender confusion would be allowed or even celebrated, while homosexuality is once more being considered a capital crime in socialist Russia, as it was until 1996. Gays, pornographers and others would be brutally treated in atheist China and majority Buddhist nations. And, what about censorship of the internet and the press? The scientific atheist utopias are the biggest offenders. When it comes to the environment and fouling one’s own nest, I’d say the atheists, pagans and Buddhists win hands down. [...] [...] So, back to the “what if” scenario: In western nations built on Christian notions of fairness and tolerence, Christians would be alternately vilified or lampooned in the dominant media and pop culture, yet slavery would be abolished, while it flourishes in Muslim societies and Africa. Every sort of sexual practice and gender confusion would be allowed or even celebrated, while homosexuality is once more being considered a capital crime in socialist Russia, as it was until 1996. Gays, pornographers and others would be brutally treated in atheist China and majority Buddhist nations. And, what about censorship of the internet and the press? The scientific atheist utopias are the biggest offenders. When it comes to the environment and fouling one’s own nest, I’d say the atheists, pagans and Buddhists win hands down. [...]

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]]> By: The Zombieslayer http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/02/12/the-us-didnt-even-make-the-top-ten/#comment-6367 The Zombieslayer Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:25:33 +0000 http://www.pietyhilldesign.com/blog/2007/02/12/the-us-didnt-even-make-the-top-ten/#comment-6367 Excellent post, Bo. As someone who traveled overseas and has been a foreign exchange student, America's a clean country. As I'm writing this, another species in China just went extinct. It was the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_river_dolphin" rel="nofollow">Chinese River Dolphin. </a> I love dolphins too. Went extinct because of pollution. Excellent post, Bo. As someone who traveled overseas and has been a foreign exchange student, America’s a clean country.

As I’m writing this, another species in China just went extinct. It was the Chinese River Dolphin. I love dolphins too. Went extinct because of pollution.

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