Minnesota bridge collapse

[Danyet]

I would say that you re right Xkalibur!

The Western world is turning atheistic. And the Middle East is turning more religious. This makes the West vulnerable because their is nothing to bond us together. We have nothing to believe in. The West will splinter and be consumed.

[Bambang]

The western world is turning atheistic while the Middle East is turning more religious.

Any data about your thesis, Danyet?

[Danyet]

The western world is turning atheistic while the Middle East is turning more religious.

Any data about your thesis, Danyet?

I’m not here to write a thesis for everyone. Anyone who has paid attention to world history and modern trends should have been able to see the change for themselves. This has been happening since the time of Charles Dawin and in "educated" circles, those who still believe in a God are generally scoffed at. However, I have bothered to find some support for my previous statement on this web site which is a chat on the same topic.

The subsequent prediction I made is my own theory.
http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=28760
http://www.rationalrevolution.net/artic ... ticism.htm

You can see on their graph that the USA is at the bottom of the list of 50 most unreligious countries. Which means that out of the industrialised West America is one of the most God believing counties left. Is this why America is hated so much lately? I think that this question is worth investigation.

Atheism and religion have progressed around the world in different ways based on the political and economic climates of the different regions. In Western Europe atheism has become more widespread since World War II largely on its own merits, based on open scientific and educational advance. In Eastern Europe atheism has also spread since World War II due to both education and the suppression of religion by Communist regimes. Nevertheless, the Eastern European nations are still generally more religious than the Western European nations.

In the Middle East atheism is rare and faces the strongest opposition. Most of the countries in the Middle East are formal theocracies or have very strong support of Islam by the State. Nevertheless, there are atheists in the Middle East. Atheism in the Middle East has been heavily associated with the Communist movement since World War II, and continues to be today. The war in Afghanistan during the 1980s was between atheistic Afghani Marxists and Islamic fundamentalists. The Soviet Union backed the Marxist Afghanis and the United States supported the Islamic Jihad of the fundamentalists, arguably leading to development of Al-Queda and the wave of Islamic terrorism that overtook the Middle East after the end of the Afghan civil war.

[Danyet]

Now getting back to the bridge.

Back in 1990 they were told that the bridge needed fixing.
Minnesota has one of the highest state tax rates of any state in USA. 1.6 Billion Dollars is allocated for the department of Transport every year. That is enough money the completely build a new bridge like the one that collapsed every 4 months. Why is it Bush's fault if the people of Minnesota decided to use the money for other purposes???

Instead of fixing the bridge they decided to waste the money on other stupid projects that were not needed and did no good. Like spend about a third of the alloted money building a Light Rail system that people didn't want or need which has not cut down on traffic but made it worse and has been a failure in other USA cities. This rail system was put in by politicians that were sucking up to big business, the Mall of America. The rail goes between the Mall of America, the airport and downtown and that's it! It was obviously designed for easy access to tourist dollars by local politicians.........it was LOCAL POLITICIANS that let the bridge collapse........not President Bush!!!

[Shazzam]

Now getting back to the bridge.


it was LOCAL POLITICIANS that let the bridge collapse........not President Bush!!!

Same in OZ too many politicians!! Local Government is a total waste of time. State Governments use federal funding on ~. Mind you the federal government isn't much better. I do agree however that spending is the issue.