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The welfare and food stamp system destroyed minor families and created the typical poverty-stricken single parent households we see today.
Minorities back in the 60's were devoutly religious with a strong moral compass.

It didn't destroy just minority families, it destroyed families. Whites, blacks, etc.

Had a similar conversation a few weeks ago. Someone I was talking to was mentioning some girl he knew (white girl if it matters), who has three kids. Her "boyfriend" of over 10 years has a pretty good job, but because she isn't married she is able to get government benefits.

So just because she doesn't have a legal document saying she is married the kids have whatever insurance they get from the government, they get free lunch, etc. I think the mother has a part time job or something.

It seems like people had more pride in themselves. Even when I was in school (I graduated HS in the late 90s), I remember in elementary and middle school, junior high.. People got picked on if they were on welfare and it was something no one was proud to be on. Today, its like something people take pride in.

I remember seeing Eddie Murphy's Delirious for the first time when I was young and laughing my arse off at the part when he was talking like a kid with the ice cream and was like "you are on welfare and yo momma got your clothes on lay a way" (I am paraphrasing, I forget how the whole joke went) because that was shite people really told each other when I was in school. Especially when coming back from the Christmas holiday and some kids would have on new clothes and everyone would tell them their momma had it on lay a way all year and then was able to pay it off by Christmas..

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The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Stop using the so-called separation of church and state to pretend that our nation wasn't created with a strong foundation of religious based moral values. It absolutely was.

I disagree with this. It comes down to good parenting. Almost every kid I knew who came from a real strict religious home were the wildest kids when they were not around their parents. They grew up to resent their church. A few even ended up down the wrong path.. addiction, etc.

Someone could probably make the argument that those who fight back against religion was probably likely raised in a real strict religious home.

If anything, the fact that in 1950 there was 148M people in the US compared to today where there is almost 340M plays a big factor. In the early 2000s the population doubled from 1950. 20 years from now the population is projected to be at 360M.

Population plays a much bigger factor in the problems we have today than religion or lack there of.