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Ray Waddle: Frenetic pace of life today devalues religion's role

It’s easy to forget how bold the idea sounded in 1776 — form a new nation that promotes religious freedom, not religious conformity.

Freedom of religion defied all common sense at the time, scholar Craig Atwood reminds us. A nation was supposed to have just one faith, which served as society’s glue. Religious diversity? That would be chaos.

“The idea that a nation could tolerate not only different Christian churches but also radically different religions was considered lunacy until after the American Revolution,” Atwood writes in the latest Handbook of Denominations in the United States .

Two American outcomes bloomed: 1) Religion flourished in this new free-market environment, because churches had to compete for souls and support; and 2) Religion was free to exert moral power in the public realm like other organizations. And it did — against slavery, alcohol, poor housing conditions, racial segregation, abortion.

For millions across many generations, religion supplied a moral glue after all: Belief in God inspired values of goodwill, freedom and justice.

But the pace of life, liberty and the 21st-century pursuit of happiness are challenging — devaluing — religion’s role in providing resilience and hope.

The U.S. remains the most religious society among post-industrial nations, and the most diverse. But denominational loyalties are fading. Religion as a formidable force against poverty and injustice appears in recession. Agnosticism is statistically rising.

So is distrust. In 1960, 60 percent of Americans said they could trust most other people. By 2006, that number had fallen to 32 percent, the lowest ever, says Farhad Manjoo in his book True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society . Manjoo suggests media saturation — its rapid-fire, selective facts and pseudo experts — is distorting our grasp on reality, fostering divergent perceptions, deepening distrust.

This unfolds against a backdrop of globalization, which is shrinking American wages, shifting economic power elsewhere and intensifying national pessimism, which erodes trust further.

Religion’s public slump sounds like good news to civil libertarians or others who oppose the posturing of groups like the Christian Coalition.

But healthy religion has always worked in quieter realms unmeasured by headlines: Religion inspired personal restraint, business integrity and public truthfulness. People believed God was watching.

Latin & South America » Latin America – A Paradise For Men ...

First of all, the ratios of women to men favor men in Latin America; There are many facts and statistics that back up this claim, but one simple way to prove this is true is to simply take a trip and look around. If you want to complete facts and figures you can find them in the breakthrough book titled “The Global Dating Revolution.”

The point is, in many Latin American countries, you will find out that there are many more women then men. This means the local women have to fight it out for the fewer men, and in many cases, these women need to really work on their personalities, physical appearance, and there charisma just to win over the men in their environment.

Ironically, in the U.S (and in similar nations like Canada, and Australia) it’s the men who have to work overtime to win over the ladies. Many men in the U.S. are studying “game”, working on there “social skills”, building their bodies in gyms, working hard to make more money to impress the ladies, just to beat out the tough competition.

It’s no surprise, with more men then women in most areas of the US, it’s the complete opposite of what happens in Latin America, where the ladies need to press harder in order to impress the opposite sex.

The second reason, and one that few people are aware of, is what I like to call the youth factor. Very few people know that Latin America happens to be the second youngest region in the world. Yes that is correct, Latin America is right behind Africa as having the youngest populations on Earth! In fact, the median age in most Latin American countries hovers around 21 years (Honduras), 23 (Ecuador), 24 (Bolivia), 25 (Peru), 27 (Colombia), up to 30 (Brazil), and the rest are in the 20′s range. This means that in general there is a more vibrant, younger population throughout Latin America. This is a population filled with young, caring, single ladies who would be a perfect match for you or me.

I think we can all agree that youth is a very important contributing factor to the attractiveness of a woman. Therefore being in a region with a more youthful population would give you access to dating more women in their 20′s and 30′s whereas dating in your local environment, where the median age is hovering around 40, will most likely have you dating women in their 30′s and 40′s.

Now let us look at the some other facts. According to the median age (wikipedia or google it) of US (36 yrs), Japan (oldest median age on Earth – 42 yrs), Western and Eastern Europe (oldest continent on Earth—with average ages of late 30′s to early 40′s–especially Italy!), you will find more older women in the US and Europe then you will in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia.

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