Yeah, there's a lot of history to this, but it's a part of why there's so many unusual or distinctive off-shoots of Christianity that come from the US: Jehovah's Witnesses, LDS, Seventh Day Adventists, Evangelicalism, etc...
It's not just the Puritans, in fact, it's mostly not, though they've given us plenty of other cultural baggage.
Because we weren't our own nation, we didn't have our own bishop in the church of English, so for ministers to get ordained they had to go to England to be trained and then come back.
This gave rise to a conflict between the New Lights and Old Lights. The New Lights were basically proto-evangelicals and they determined that the proof of qualification to be a minister wasn't a degree, education, or some church approval from overseas, but the ability to gather a church.
This meant that charisma became the defining trait for a successful minister. They're not educated and they're terribly persuasive. This is why evangelicals have such terrible theology. There's all these ideas that are mainstream evangelical ideas that never existed before this period.
The rapture was created during this period. That's right, for nearly 1800 years Christians wouldn't even know what you meant if you said "the rapture" and now evangelicals wander around telling everyone to be prepared.
I think calling it a culture of fear and selfishness is a pretty significant disservice to the reality of how car companies bought and dismantled public transit.
I think we can address systems as systems and individuals as individuals.
There are, of course, good human beings who work as cops. I think they do so in spite of the system not because of it.
I recently recovered stolen property and there were cops who really cared and worked tirelessly to help and there were cops who couldn't care less and would have been no help had my wife not solved the case for them.
"I was honoured to deliver a letter from President Trump to President Vladimir Putin’s administration. The letter emphasized the importance of further engagement in various areas including countering terrorism, enhancing legislative dialogue and resuming cultural exchanges," Paul wrote in a Twitter post.
Alright, I'll go against the grain and say that Go is the better game.
I'm not very good at Go, but I'll always consider it the better game. It's less about memorization and more about planning, adaptability, and intuition.
It has rules for handicap to allow inexperienced players to compete on a more even footing with experienced players.
The board can be scaled down for faster, more tactical experiences.
It really doesn't. English translations of it do, but in the Greek, it pointedly avoids using the words for homosexuality.
The one exception is Romans 1, but it's a rhetorical argument against the legalism of the Jewish Christians, not against homosexuality.