I wonder how does this happen though. I really can't stop laughing.
It makes me think the whole sanctions crap is initiated by major western oil companies who don't want to get too crowded with their drilling projects in Russia.

& by the way.. I actually disagree it relieves pressure. It's a kind of joke that may provokes some anger, thus fueling the will to change something.

What is said in the Video at the end "God has buried those treasures there because he loves to see us mine them and put them to use." that must be true, because if he wouldn't want it he could hinder it. But for sure he can see the difference between wise and unjustifiable mining.

I would like to see you dissect my writing yourself, because i can't see how the video is doing it.

So why does God like child rape?

Don't get me wrong, I think I have a potential answer for that "hard" question. But saying, "People do it, so God must be okay with it" I think is a fallacy that assumes God would stop anything he didn't like.

My hypothetical solution for that disparity is this:

God is growing raising humanity the same way you would a child. That is, he allows bad things to happen so that we learn from them as a society and adapt ourselves to the moral thing. He is tending to us so that we are less and less dependent on his direct intervention.

Initially, he was hands on with everything because we were an infant species. By time the new testament hit, he was more in the background but still prominent. Now, he's very much in the background influencing us through, say, our conscious.

That seems like the logical way to both have a group of people behave the way you want, and yet still have "free will." Guide them overall in the direction you want, but not force any one person to do anything they don't want to.

Of course, anyone and everyone is welcome to disagree--and obviously this only applies to those who follow Christianity--but since God calls himself "the holy Father" it's not too much of a stretch to say humanity is being raised like a child.

debatable

They aren't.

Most of us are capable of discussing terms on both a political, humanitarian basis, as well as religious one. Some of us even in religions we don't believe in.

Only because zealots like to tie EVERYTHING to religion even athiest zealots.

Religion is not a thing I need to cope with life.

To some, it matters.

I bought a shirt and a cookie jar from a bibles for missionaries thrift store yesterday... felt weird about it because I don't support that, but it's only $6 right?

Nah, I went through that loop myself in the stretch between 2003-2008 or so.

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Sorry, but religion doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.

I do have beliefs, and my own ideas about the universe, but I do not have a religion. Agnostic is like the exact opposite of a religion

Every thread in A.CC goes all over the place. And honestly, lot's of good discussions... and some of the best conversations I've ever had with people in person, were all over the place.

It usually means everyone is capable of light-heartedly discussing many topics without going into rage mode the second someone picks a hot subject, like politics or religion.

In other words, Gnosticism and Agnosticism are not really related.