Using shame and ridicule to discipline a child is more likely than not to have other-than-foreseen, bad consequences, like the child bullying and ridiculing others. Enjoy, mommy dearest.
What has really changed is the widespread availability of ready-to-eat foods. Vending machines are everywhere, most towns have fast food restaurants, places that sell late night junk food (7/11) are open all night, etc. Everywhere a person goes the effort to sell him/her food follows.
One study I read suggests that people tend to gain weight when food is readily available, and tend not to gain weight when more effort is required to procure the food. As O. Wilde wrote: "The only thing I can't resist is temptation."
Oh Che, LOL--"And as hard as it might be for those with little or no historical perspective to believe Christian societies have also been more tolerant."
If only we could ask medieval Jews, heretics, homosexuals, American Indians, African slaves, etc., etc., how tolerant Christians were. They'd all laugh in your face. You criticize someone because you think they are saying Christianity makes people worse, then you maintain that Christians are more tolerant, i.e., better, than other groups. That's rich, champ.
One study I read suggests that people tend to gain weight when food is readily available, and tend not to gain weight when more effort is required to procure the food. As O. Wilde wrote: "The only thing I can't resist is temptation."
If only we could ask medieval Jews, heretics, homosexuals, American Indians, African slaves, etc., etc., how tolerant Christians were. They'd all laugh in your face. You criticize someone because you think they are saying Christianity makes people worse, then you maintain that Christians are more tolerant, i.e., better, than other groups. That's rich, champ.