Originally Posted by Guest

Let's talk about NOW...or the last thirty years, NOW. One thing I have observed that the suburbs in that time period were largely populated by kids who grew up in Catholic Schools where rules and sins were explained a LOT. The repercussions for tjeor actions was drilled into them and they learned that they were being WATCHED.

It appears that all those rules and all that knuckle smacking put the fear of God in folks enough for them to follow those rules and scare them enough to live maybe psychologically flawed, but at least focused enough to find homes in safe areas for their fledglings, and work hard enough and sacrifice enough to live in those safe areas.

You can argue about religion until the cows come home but that brings us to the question as to who made the cows? Who slopped around into the first ectoplasm became life?

You can also say that humans like fellowship and like to gather when they are happy to celebrate...They want to THANK someone for the good and ask someone not to steal their young away through accident and illness.

I don't know. I am a struggling person who believes strongly in God about half the time. I think religion helps a great deal more than it hurts.

At the end. We all may be greatly surprised.