Where was the GOP's skepticism and suspicions during the Bush years?

Yes, all institutions are most definitely corrupt......but religion is definitely the most sinister of the evils. Here is an institution that "teaches" truth, love and forgivness on the outside, yet on the inside is so severely twisted and distorted that little kids are actually being molested and raped. And we're not talking about just ANY institution here......we're talking about the ULTIMATE institution.

What is more important then where you go after you die? Nothing of course, because if we have to sit through an eternity of fire and gnashing teeth then we'll do whatever we have to, believe in whatever we need to, to ensure that that doesn't happen to us. People are being led to believe that religion has all the answers however it offers no answers and it stops people from thinking because they believe that they already HAVE the answers, so they quit asking questions.

If religion is true then YES, it gives our lives a purpose. It gives us a sense of self and a reason for all things. But what happened the last time you saw something that was too good to be true?

People come into religion for a number of reasons, however they all have one thing in.

I am reminded of: "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S. president wrote that in a letter, 10 Aug. 1787. I don't regard our doubts about anything that does not satisfy our logic and reasoning as skepticism.

You will under why by the following quote: "There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge which I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention."_Helen Keller (1880-1968), U.S. author, lecturer. The Story of My Life.

Philosophical problems are unlike scientific or mathematical problems in that problems in philosophy are often refined rather than solved, and there is widespread belief that no philosophical problem is truly "solvable" in the conventional sense. After all, as Bertrand Russell, in his 1912 book The Problems of Philosophy says: "Philosophy is to be studied not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.