what has happened to the world since the 40's?
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Actually the world went to hell during the 40s. That little World War 2 kerfuffle. You may have heard of it. Seventy-five million dead, the eastern hemisphere left a smoking, cratered hellscape of blood & body parts and the committing of one of the worst atrocities ever committed by humanity? The beginning of the spectre of nuclear annihilation? No? Nothing? Not ringing any bells?
No. I am assuming your generation is mine, or the one mine is birthing, and no, they usually think instead of wistfully wish for a horrible decade.
In the forties, the world was at war, rationing was in effect in many countries, displaced populations wandered the globe, and my mother was terrified that I would catch either diphtheria or polio.
Now tell me again what was so damn good in the forties?
So as society advanced you say we're worse.
Better marriages and less shotgun marriages
No we got better. And seems without god things get better. Seems your old man in clouds prefers societies that don't revolve around him.
And some of us believe in multiple gods while others are monotheistic.
It's been incredibly fewer wars.
@ 2007781- If you're referring to the US, we are clearly not more intelligent. One only has to read the news for irrefutable proof.
And I don't know how old this jackass is, but his whine posing as an answer just seems like wistful nostalgia to me. He's pining for a time that sucked for many, & is never coming back.
WW2
In fact you can search out newspaper and magazine articles in the late forties of churches deep concern that returning soldiers were NOT returning to the church. In America and Europe. This childish loving God thing had been broken in those that suffered the atrocities and horrors of war. European in particular, in the war zone abandoned the church in droves.
The America and church fevor you're thinking of occurred in two waves of tent revivals in America. One coming out of the depression and the next in the late fifties, collecting I believe the survivors of the depression and WW2 war orphan/widows, then of course, the red scare. The church and government really worked that fear tactic, if you didn't belong to a church you were suspect of being a Commie, don't pretend that wasn't a thing.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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