[Jim C. Lombardo]

Re: U.S. is Not Among the Ten Happiest Countries, Good for Us.

By suffering to avoid guilt and sin, we get a free ride for eternity. It's a glorious thing to be miserable.

Preach it! Just look at Africa. The average fuzzy lives in a dirt hut, has HIV, has a belly so swollen you'd think they'd be pregnant (and in many instances, yes they are!), but no, it's just parasitical reaction to malnourishment and fecal infested drinking water, and flies covering their sunken faces. Flies everything! Thanks to Christians, we brought them the sweet suckling gift of Jesus, and now every African has a reason to smile.

So Africa may rank at the bottom of this so-called "list", but only a Christian knows that their hardship makes them free to take for easy slave labor!

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: U.S. is Not Among the Ten Happiest Countries, Good for Us.

Preach it! Just look at Africa.

So Africa may rank at the bottom of this so-called "list", but only a Christian knows that their hardship makes them free

You have nailed it friend Lombardo. Let's take the earth quake in Haiti. Planeloads of Christians and nonprofits rolled in there with tents and food.

Our Godly friend, Franklin Graham would have none of that. He flew in to preach sermons about sin and hell. Franklin knew tent living without supervision would lead to sin and wanted the displaced residents of Haiti they needed to remain miserable to gain heaven. Those who listened were grateful for his wisdom.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: U.S. is Not Among the Ten Happiest Countries, Good for Us.

The thing I don't get: according to evolutionists Africa is the single country hosting the world's most ancient humans. Three million years? One million years? Regardless, you'd think they'd've worked out how to dig a hole in the ground. Some of them fill up with water. And once you've "discovered" fire you can even boil it.

Go 1,000,000 - a million years ago we'd learned how to dig a well and boil the water. In order to smelt metals fire is essential.

Genesis 4:19-22 Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

Now I must be mad to talk like this, but in 987,983B.C. humans knew how to make fire. Otherwise Tubalcain could have extracted neither the zinc to make brass nor the iron to make iron.

Organs are pretty cool instruments, the range of timbre and the control over intonation (at least with a tracker action) approaches what American innovations have achieved (electric guitar, Hammond organ) but do require metals. An all wood organ could be produced but apart from harmoniums with resonant pipes all done in wood (I've never seen one) the concept is more than absurd. It is unnecessary. At the time Jubal's family were learning how to handle organs, Tubalcain was refining alloys precisely those used in organ construction to this day. Africans claim this was a million years ago or even earlier dates but whatever the date, to get those metals fire is required.

Fire boils water.

Water comes from wells (the wells we seemingly need to pay billions- or trillions-of-dollars to dig) and if water is the most important element of human existence then how could we ever have survived (for millions of years) without that technology? Fire already existed (Tubalcain) and surely digging a hole in the ground is less advanced than smelting metals?

Africa is not a happy country. Idolatry everywhere, demon possession, bizarre herbal concoctions, just as The Bible describes these degenerate forms of humanity have lost so much. In Christ an answer may be found but with papists crawling all over the joint and nuns putting out whatever it is they put out not to mention witchdoctors small wonder they're all dying of thirst even though, I suppose we're expected to believe, they are the ones who taught the world how to dig wells in the first place?