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Sorry this is a completely self indulgent post.
So my dad is 57 (I'm 31) and we chat a couple times a month or so. We usually don't talk too much religion or politics. Believe it or not, if we avoid those topics, we agree on most everything. I have his strong work ethic, logical mind, and sense of humor.
He's also VERY religious, got caught up in the born again movement of the late 70s and 80's.
So today we talked about a ton of stuff. Gun control, abortion, morality, slavery, muslims, homosexuals, and more! Here are some points he drove home.
1) US slave owners didn't treat slaves as well as the media portrays. They treated them as valuable property and did not want to harm them in any way.
2) The feminist movement undermined modern society just as many other social reforms undermined other great powerful societies. He doesn't think women are equal, they are obviously not as physical strong, which even today, is important. They have certain aptitudes and general tendencies and opinions that are rarely shared with men.
3) Abortion is wrong. The whole "controversy" isn't anyting more than man's guilty and trying to justify selfish behavior. Discarding any fertilized embyos, such as in a fertility clinic, is wrong as well.
4) Capital punishment is warranted after due process though
6) Humans have a purpose on this earth and a divine plan. When we deviate from it and serve our own self interest's, things go wrong for everyone.
7) In 4 generations Mexicans will be the most common "race" in the U.S.
8) People are not animals and its fundamentally wrong to equate them to animals in any way. We are allowed by God to eat them, but forbidden from abusing them.
9) Guns make innocent people safer. Its the criminals that are for gun control to take them out of the hands of the law abiders that will defend themselves. Its a God given right to own one.
It was quite the talk. I caught a couple of Bill O'reilly catch phrases in there too.
So my dad is 57 (I'm 31) and we chat a couple times a month or so. We usually don't talk too much religion or politics. Believe it or not, if we avoid those topics, we agree on most everything. I have his strong work ethic, logical mind, and sense of humor.
He's also VERY religious, got caught up in the born again movement of the late 70s and 80's.
So today we talked about a ton of stuff. Gun control, abortion, morality, slavery, muslims, homosexuals, and more! Here are some points he drove home.
1) US slave owners didn't treat slaves as well as the media portrays. They treated them as valuable property and did not want to harm them in any way.
2) The feminist movement undermined modern society just as many other social reforms undermined other great powerful societies. He doesn't think women are equal, they are obviously not as physical strong, which even today, is important. They have certain aptitudes and general tendencies and opinions that are rarely shared with men.
3) Abortion is wrong. The whole "controversy" isn't anyting more than man's guilty and trying to justify selfish behavior. Discarding any fertilized embyos, such as in a fertility clinic, is wrong as well.
4) Capital punishment is warranted after due process though
6) Humans have a purpose on this earth and a divine plan. When we deviate from it and serve our own self interest's, things go wrong for everyone.
7) In 4 generations Mexicans will be the most common "race" in the U.S.
8) People are not animals and its fundamentally wrong to equate them to animals in any way. We are allowed by God to eat them, but forbidden from abusing them.
9) Guns make innocent people safer. Its the criminals that are for gun control to take them out of the hands of the law abiders that will defend themselves. Its a God given right to own one.
It was quite the talk. I caught a couple of Bill O'reilly catch phrases in there too.
