From: user6340@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   JTEM  posted:   
   > On 1/19/26 3:39 PM, Steven Douglas wrote:   
   >   
   > > What you just wrote in your post is the reason this   
   > > world needs Jesus. Because it's godless people who   
   > > commit the kinds of evil that you discussed in your   
   > > post. Especially when they're so morally confused   
   > > that they call good evil and evil good.   
   >   
   > Social "Taboos" are far more powerful than religious   
   > mores. As a point here:  In your "Good old days"   
   > people were just as likely to cheat on their wives,   
   > and a lot more likely to visit prostitutes, and what   
   > they feared wasn't God but public exposure.   
      
   They weren't really religious if they could do that.   
   They were pretenders.   
   >   
   > The problem today is that the 1%, through their media,   
   > and especially the social media & the almighty   
   > algorithm, are controlling people SOCIALLY.   
      
   That's true. My point was in response to your post   
   about how evil people are -- and that's exactly why   
   the world needs Jesus. Would you rather live in a   
   society like ours (based on Christian principles),   
   or in someplace like the old atheistic USSR, where   
   Stalin murdered about 30 million of his own citizens?   
      
   Or how about Iran right now, where they shoot randomly   
   into crowds of their own citizens to maintain their   
   power, having murdered MANY THOUSANDS of their own   
   citizens in the process? Thank God we get to live   
   in our society, which is not perfect (because NOTHING   
   is perfect in this world), but it sure is better than   
   the alternatives.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)