Well, it took me some time but I finally did check your links yesterday evening.
For the record, here they are:
Just a couple of thoughts. Concerning the 1st video, I really had no idea that Americans have it so bad. What about your president fixing economy and stuff? Compared to this, we still have more or less decent life over here, even people who live on welfare and can't afford a car.
As for Pearl, yeah, I'm not a big fan of her but as I'm lazy I won't do any fact checking and just take what she says about divorce at face value. There are two things I'd like to point out. First, despite the American divorce system which she criticises, according to her statistics, Hindus and Muslims somehow manage to have pretty low divorce rates which means that you still can have a normal family even with easy divorce laws. Which really makes it shameful for Christians to divorce so much. Especialy considering that Islam allows divorce and Christianity forbids it.
However, and this is my 2nd point. If you are a Christian, please keep in mind that if you want to have licit s8x and avoid fornication, marriage is your only option. And if you really don't want to marry, it's fine. Just stay single and celibate (or at least try to). Again, our divorce system is different and men do pretty well in it, BTW, the divorce rates started climbing in the 1990s when married women started working en masse. There was even scientific research which proved that the more hours the woman works the higher her chance of divorce. So make your own conclusions.
Your last link is more like the summary of the first video.
I do appreciate the discussion so feel free to express your thoughts in the comments below:)
The grocery shelves are full but some people are struggling financially even those who are minimalist. I've not really seen this in my part of the country, but the food banks are busy these days. I do see the restaurants busy in the city I live outside of even on a weekday so some people do have money. The gas stations have fuel available 24/7, the electricity is working, but there are some under pinning's in the economy that Trump has no control over and were already in motion during Biden. The tech companies like MS and IBM and others have laid off thousands. Amazon and UPS, and FedEx have or will be laying off people.
ReplyDeleteI live with my parent so I can save some money, so I'm doing better than most.
Christians do have an embarrassing divorce percentage which is I put zero stock into that religious viewpoint. It's a total waste of my time. In the end, it's the two people and whether they want to make it work or not and has little to do with religion. I've had sex without marriage and will never feel bad about it. I would have loved to be with someone long term, but most women can't do it. This entire stupidity that one should take joy in being alone is why I don't really care to be Christian. It's simply an idiotic viewpoint with no basis in reality of human relationships. I'm not here to be like Jesus anyway.