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Dang Mike
How do we follow that.

To bad this has become a debate on religion. I don't think it was meant to go that way.
We have talked about a lot of issues here.
I think things go in cycles. Like Jim said, I am not a stupid man. I think I have a pretty good grasp of what is going on. My beliefs may be very different from some of you. Some may think they are wrong, Some may think they are right.
I have studied religion. I was very involved with the church at one time in my life.
Now I just tolerate it. I don't have a relationship with a God, or Jesus, or any other deity unless you want to call apathy a relationship. I use to say Hate. Hate may be to strong a word. Can't really hate something you have no use for.
Nature is about the closest I come to it now. I love nature. I love being out in the woods. I even love the deer I killed the other day. I am gonna eat him. When I killed that deer I said a little thank you to the woods and nature for the harvest. I do that every time I kill an animal when hunting. I am, after all, taking a life. The least I can do is thank the animals.

I came to this in August 1976 when my 6 year old daughter died in her sleep. She was my third child I buried. A man ain't supposed to bury his kids.
I tried after that to regain my faith but it was not to be. I have no use for anyone who would allow the misery that goes on in this life and then expect us to worship him for the privilege. That is just plain Sadistic.

Now to try to blame the actions of the young people on God or lack of religion is a waste of time.

Things go in cycles. 150 years ago people raised their kids on family farms. 3 or 4 generations lived together. Not just farms either. People in cities lived in communal groups as well. Grandparents, their kids and their grandkids all living in the same house. The community policed the kids and their activity. I know even when I was a kid I feared the neighbor. If we screwed up we got the [naughty word removed] kicked out of us. If we wanted money for the show on Saturday we found a way to earn it. I had my first job when I was twelve years old. I killed and plucked chickens for the neighborhood butcher. I also shined shoes for money after school.
Our affluent lifestyles in this country over the last fifty years has fragmented the family unit. It is doing the same in other countries as well.
Today kids are on their own. But, the economy is starting to swing the pendulum back the other way. I raised two of my grandkids. I know other grandparents who have raised their grandkids. I also know grandparents who have their married kids moving back in with them because they don't have jobs. For what ever reason. Some because they can't find work but others because they won't do the jobs they can get. So, the illegal immigrants take the jobs.
A lot of the young people are lazy today. They think the world owes them a living. And don't tell me it isn't so. I have nieces and nephews like that and my own daughter and granddaughter is like that.
The work is to hard, the job is to far away, I have to work nights, I have to get up at 5 o'clock in the morning, etc. any excuse to not have to get their lazy ass out of bed and go to work.I know several people on SSI who are completely healthy. But they are LAZY.
And because they don't work they don't have any money so they tend to "borrow" but it is only borrowing when you pay it back.

Bottom line
God ain't got nothing to do with it. We make choices on how we want to live.