The Waxman–Markey energy bill, which would restrict greenhouse gas emissions by creating a cap-and-trade system, was passed by the House in June and will likely be considered by the Senate soon.
If this bill becomes law, gasoline prices would increase significantly in order to meet emissions limits imposed by the legislation. To see specific estimates, hover your mouse over each state below: (To see the effect on your state, go to the link and click on the state.)

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/08/27/waxman-markeys-effect-on-gas-prices-in-your-state/

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As for letting a child, an adolescent, choose for himself which church (or no church) to affiliate himself with, Satan will be delighted (if demons have that emotion) to guide him. Keep him as far from the Truth as possible.

I’m on a roll here and I hate to break off this fascinating dialog, but I just got a dinner bell call.

Peace be with you (you old reprobate!)

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I don’t know what a reasonable age would be. For one thing, not everyone matures at the same rate. We call people adults around 18 or 21 and set limits on drinking and getting married and serving in the military and being “emancipated” around those ages.

My granddaughter is five and very, very bright and gradually getting her emotions and temper under control. I would encourage her to be an atheist. Her mommies’ strategy seems to be to let her attend various churches as she gets older and eventually decide on her religious belief. My wife and I are comfortable on it.

I know a lot of Christians in real life and they vary in how I would describe them as “better” or “worse.” My knowledge of the Christians at wmb is very superficial (as is your knowledge of me), but I definitely think of some as better and some as worse.

I think I should stay away from naming screen names but some people make a positive impression on me and some have made a very negative impression on me. There are several people I encountered over the last few years who struck me as unpleasant, hostile, and perhaps dangerous if encountered in “real life.” By and large, the other Christians either feel obligated to agree with them because the spout the Christian party line, or at least they pretend not to notice their disturbing behavior and language.

Obviously, the same can be said of many atheists and members of other groups. I don’t hate Christians and on the whole I don’t think of them as an especially horrible group of people, but I don’t perceive them as a group as any better than any other large group and not particularly living up to their high opinion of themselves.

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People often demand, how can evolution account for altruism? I often answer, humans have a drive to care for our young. This seems fairly obvious to me, and hardly an insult to anyone.

I have also pointed out in my salesmanship comments that the most likely prospects our captives: our children. The recent thread where people were talking about children saying they are Christians at ages of 6 or whatever hardly represents any meaningful “age of consent,” whether we are talking about religious believers or atheists. We told our daughter what we believed. When she asked if Santa Claus was real, we asked what she thought. She said, “I think he is not real.” It wasn’t a long journey.

Children are our property and most of us indoctrinate them. We didn’t home school, but my secular brother did home school his children. I don’t know how else to proceed except acknowledging that our children are property and setting some limits such as preventing grievous abuse.

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Caleb is a great name.

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