Do you think Godless societies/individuals are worse than theists? Are they ethically inferior in your opinion?
Not necessarily with individuals but, generally speaking, godless societies tend to adopt the preferences of those in power rather than the biblical norms. Some godless people live much better lives than their Christian counterparts. I have an explanation why. They adopt Christian values, like love your neighbor (as opposed to, say, use your neighbor until they are of no longer of use), instead of living according to what their roots would dictate, survival of the strongest or fittest.
I like taking the example of China because President Xi has now made himself dictator for life and is leading his people down the road to Chinese dominance at the expense of other countries. He is doing this by what the West would call dishonest means (manipulating currencies, intellectual theft, using large companies for his own gain) and the world is sitting back and watching him do so. Some of those who oppose him or even speak against him and his ideology are detained and harassed. It remains to see how this will develop but I think a confrontation may be likely in the not too distant future.
The same happens in your country with the Democrats, generally speaking (and in my opinion). They control the country by devious means and deceptions that no one seems to confront. The media is used as a propaganda tool to influence the minds of the gullible. Institutions of higher learning are largely run by liberal-minded professors (9 of 10 per one stat) who push a leftist ideology on their students. Freedom to express conservative values is squashed by the student bodies and faculties to an extent, as witnessed numerous times in the news during the last two years. Hollywood (many of its actors are liberally educated) also promotes secular values and ideas. The Arts portray images and ideas that are secular and profane. Large multinational companies adopt the same liberal, leftist outlooks. So, the gatekeepers of American society (especially in the big population centers on the coasts and around the Great Lakes) promote things that Christians see as not healthy to society by indoctrinating their population at every level with political correctness and secular values and ideas.
The political situation in your country disgusts me. As an outsider, I see the Democrats, more so than the Republicans as pushing an agenda that I feel will leave your country worse off than it has ever been before. I think your democracy that has lasted for hundreds of years is at stake with the manipulation going on by these dishonest politicians and their hate mongering. There is a double-standard, duplicity with moderate Republicans (Flake, for one, and Romney for another) and a large portion of the Democrat Party in unequal justice, coverups, and hypocrisy on all levels. What I don't understand is how Americans can vote Democrat? It makes no sense to me. I chalk it up to an indoctrination that has continued over the course of many decades and also the inability of the moderate branch of the Republican Party to get things done that are good for the country. I see President Trump as the last hope for a radical change, or else things are going to continue to get worse until your country declines in its influence.
Obama let most of the radical world (countries in deep opposition to freedom) away with their saber rattling but now it is being addressed, however uncomfortable this may be. It needs to be done. With a Democratic Congress, I think things are going to come to a stand-still unless Trump is willing to compromise what should not be compromised.
Border security should be a no-brainer, but it is not. The drugs, gangs, illegal immigrants, sex-traffickers, rapists, and terrorists have an open path to your country and neighborhoods, and not only this, these illegals cost your country billions more than a barrier would cost. Meanwhile, your debt load spirals further and further out of control because of ineffective government. Sanctuary cities are one stupid idea, so is the Chuck Shummer lottery system. And when some of these Democrats suggest that there were no walls when Jesus fled to Egypt, while this is true, in some Israeli cities there were walls to protect and secure the population of cities against foreign attacks, such as in Jericho and Jerusalem.
That is my opinion. Take it for what it is worth if anything.
