Davida
Wednesday 7th March 2018 2:18am
Oregon USA
502 posts
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 6th March 2018, 11:54 PM
No it's not but that hasn't happened for decades now, each religion has pretty much stopped converting other faiths, they all tread on eggshells in a multifaith society which is what most western counties have become. But there are many non religious types who do not want the established uses customary to their culture to be pushed out by fussy liberals dreaming of an impossible utopia. It's largely ordinary citizens PC pushers are forcing unwanted change on.
Most are happy with the religious source of our words, customs and institutions. PC is an Orwellian scourge that just upsets the majority to please small minorities and causes populist backlashes like Brexit and Trump as President, it is actually a deeply unsuccessful, unpopular and divisive movement based on social control and rescinding freedoms which many have died to win. I believe in secularism too but not enforced secularism, that's called Authoritarianism and has never gone down too well in secular countries.
Religious groups have long since given up on trying to convert people? So mission trips aren't a thing? Jehovah's witnesses knocking on your door aren't a thing? Family members telling their doubting loved ones they'll rot in hell if they don't accept jesus christ as their lord and saviour never happen? (it's happened to me! When I was about 7, my grandpa gave me a hell and brimstone talk about how I need to start going to church. I was horrified. Hell sounded like a scary place, and I didn't have the mental capacity to realise that the existence of such a place is quite unlikely) What about religious teachers pushing to remove evolution lessons from biology classes and to teach of 'design' or whatever they call it. Religious groups are still pushing their stories, and they are just stories, stories in an old book. That's all they are.
Do you have statistical evidence that 'most people' want to keep the BC/AD system, and if so, what kinds of reasons they cited for wanting to keep it. I know you people love to cling to tradition for traditions sake, but if a tradition is ill-founded then I don't think it should be perpetuated into the future. Same situation with gun control. We have a tradition or our 2nd amendment right, which was created for reasons almost entirely non-applicable to today's society, yet we cling onto it because it's tradition and it allows us to keep our lovely wuwbbly guns.
Liberals are not demanding utopia, they're just, as you are, as people left right and central, are just trying to make society better for those who live within it. We have differing ideas on how to make such progress, but saying that liberals are dreaming of a utopia sounds an awful lot like nonsense to me.
