Once again, you miss the point. Us in the West are out of sync with the East. You're not supposed to be out of sync with your own culture.

First off we are not nearly as out of date with the East as we once were.  Obviously the East has made themselves quite comfortable in the West now including the U.S. and Europe. 

and yes we as Christians ARE certainly to be out of synch with even our own culture.  This world is not our forever home so we are not to get too comfortable in it. 

Paul wrote to the Romans that we are not to be conformed to the pattern of this world but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.  In other words like I said about the world being crooked?  We are to straighten up and fly right as God intended us. 

First the Jews and then the Christians were told to be a peculiar people.  That means different.  We are called out to be different and that alone makes us out of sync with our world here. 

I don't want to be in sync with a culture that thinks things today is just business as usual.

Religions have become bullshit.

So you're a counter-culture anarchist?

If there is a god growing angrier by the day, i sure hope hes the not that brutal dude from the old testament.

i'm kinda hopin for bacchus & aphrodite myself.

You took a small part of the entire quote out of context to praise yourself. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Isn't that another kind of globalization?

Turn back Evolution and progress? Be just as stuck in the dark ages as they are? I've never heard such bullshit. They should catch up with us. You're right you ARE out of sync, and you're a pathetic, small-minded imbecile.

Congratulations. You're proving what I've suspected for years. All Christians are stupid.

exactly.  This same culture has their ladder leaning against a very shaky wall with a  crumbling foundation. 

Well sorry to say he's going to be worse than that.  Have you read Revelation?  God is all about mercy, grace, forgiveness, patience and love.  He's giving mankind every single opportunity to turn around but there's going to be a day when even God says...enough! 

and everytime you throw mud on me by calling me names you can't help but dirty yourself.  Why resort to this?  Is it because you have nothing better to say? 

Please don't come around here anymore with this type of attitude. 

I've been dirty for years and proud of it.

I did.

Hey KFC, just passin by but wanted to respond. 

I'm not surprised there is more violence, more hate, just MORE.  Aside from the faith perspective there is a practical reason for it. 

There are more people today, and the population continues to grow.  By sheer statistical analysis alone, the number of just about everything should be going up, up, up.

I think as places become more crowded, as resources become more scare, not only will we lose more and more of our rights, but we will see more and more violence and crime.

I think about it like this, if you are in a 10 x 10 room with one other person, your personal freedoms are more abundant than if that room has 100 people in it.  If it has 100 people in it, there will need to be more legislation to cover everyone's rights, because the odds of one jerk making everyone miserable are increased by the number of people in the room.

I think this is one of the reasons big cities tend to be more liberal.  When you are packed into a city, living with thousands, and millions of other people, it requires much more regulation than smaller towns.  For instance, if 5% of the people want to spit on the sidewalk in a small town, its gross, but it doesn't necessarily affect the quality of life of the other people living there.

Now imagine NYC, and if only 5% of the population there spit on the sidewalk everyday..still gross, but suddenly more people are not only doing it, but being affected by it.  It could easily become a public health issue.

As our population increases, so too will these stories.

You were saying?

I agree Tova.  In fact your analysis is one of the reasons we took our kids out of a large H.S. and put them into a much smaller H.S.  We figured the less kids, the less troubles. 

So yes, the faith and practical aspects here go hand in hand.  The tower of Babal comes to mind also.  God originally told the people to scatter and populate the earth.  Instead they congregated, staying together and got in trouble together as well.   Maybe it's that whole gang mentality thing. 

What we're seeing in our modern age is this congregating again only this time it's called globalization and it's going to, from a faith perspective, be detrimental to the masses.    Only they have no idea what's about to happen. 

That's the irony of it all if you think about it.

Go forth and multiply in your fallen state.

About globalization.  That too has its own irony.  Once we hit critical mass as far as populations go, it will be necessary for survival. 

On a smaller level just look at California and the issues they are having with water.  We can look at them and say, oh well, sorry bout your luck.  But 1/3 of America's produce comes from land that now stands like a dust bowl because the pumps were turned off that fed the irrigation canals to save the smelt (small fish, endangered species, pumps suck up and kill larvae).  We're going to be forced as a nation to import more food.

And as we continue to let green fields be developed for suburbs, factories, shopping, etc, our own farmland capacity in this country is shrinking as our population increases.  (Again ironic when so many cities, like Dayton Ohio have tons of empty homes, factories, shopping malls, etc) already built, with the infrastructure to support it, and ready for occupancy.

Reduced farm land, especially in areas that get enough rain (where irrigation isn't always necessary)....will require a "global" market of food to sustain us.

It's already on the way.  All we can hope to do is manage it.