True, what you said about the long run of history--but things change. We see the West crumbling and Christianity fading today, while Islam grows stronger and more dominant. Our only advantage is technology. That's why Iran wants a nuclear bomb so badly. If we really had any advantage in ideology--our way of life--don't you think the muslims would have already accepted that, instead of hating and attacking us?

Yeah, I understand all that you say. I'm making the distinction that some people will perceive the Marathon bombers as heroic. And that the prophet of Islam, Mohamed, was a warrior chieftan with l4 wives, including a 9yr old girl, whereas Jesus was a kind-hearted, pacificist bachelor. I would think plenty of young males would fall in line with Mohamed, not Jesus. Because masculinity is human nature, and not some cultural conditioning.

You know, you can watch predominantly black colleges play on TV. There is usually a small number of white players on the teams, especially the kickers.

Selective breeding was done for thousands of years under a system known as aristocracy. Seems like it didn't work out too well, what with all the rebellions and revolutions against it.

I'm reminded of all the movies I've seen portraying outlaws as heroic figures, such as Jesse James or Billy the Kid. Did the Marathon bombers succeed in being perceived as heroic? Well, yeah, to some people they did. We should not forget in our conflict with Islam terrorists, that Islam is a religion that strongly upholds masculinity--Mohamed is no pacifist Jesus. Western civilization has very much emasculated the male. Masculinity is human nature, not some cultural artifact.

In the 1600's Shakespeare wrote a play, "Othello", wherein the leading lady is married to a black moor, Othello. The play caused no uproar in society about race. If you study a thousand years of Roman history, and add another thousands years of the Byzantine empire, an offshoot of Rome, you will find almost nothing about racial superiority. Racism, as we know it, doesn't really begin until the Imperalism age where countries like England and Spain, in subjugating new lands, needed moral justification for that subjugation.

If you were ever in high school, you actually experienced a time machine that took your life back into history, to the days of nobility, of aristocrats and peasants. A pretty girl from a nice home and dressed fashionably--a princess. A good-looking boy with athletic prowess, some spending money and his own car--a prince. And then there was the rest of us, the peasants. The whole school year was centered around games and dating--football, basketball, baseball, dances after the games. Education? Yeah, we did attend regularly a lot of very dull classes.

Honest and transparent politicians are very rare, and so the game politicians play is deception. For example, to look good, the Congress passed laws increasing benefits to those on social security tied to inflation. The Feds have the CPI which is the mechanism that determines the rate of inflation. CPI does not include the cost of gas or food in figuring inflation. See the deception? Obamacare was never designed for easier access and less cost for health care. It was designed to destroy the "for profit" health care industry, so that nothing is left but govt health care.

You know, some anthropoligists are pretty sure that it is language that separates humanity from the animals, that is, makes us superior to all other animals and a class to ourselves. Some people even say we are made in the image of god. A dog can respond to symbols,but it can't write an essay. You see, to write an essay you must have a deeper understanding within you than just recognizing symbols--and that deeper understanding is the tools of language.

Words are more than just symbols. Words require some thinking to understand them, and words compose all of our abstract understanding, you need words to even do and understand math. And even our intuitive understanding needs words to make sense of what we are feeling or perceiving--love, for example. If you really think words are just symbols, and not the tools of our understanding, then you are a sophist, and life is just a game of playing with words.

Show me the command in the Koran where all muslims are supposed to kill all infidels and Christians. I've read the Koran twice, and I can't remember such a command. I will say the Koran, in my opinion, is a stupid book, not near the intelligence of the Bible.