Government & Economics
October 28th, 2009 by Micah SewellHey guys, I haven’t posted for a while, but I came across a cool list of questions that could be fun to discuss.
What is Your Worldview?
- The government has a moral obligation to help the poorest and neediest members of our society.
- Education is a fundamental (unalienable) civil right of every individual.
- It is immoral for bank presidents to be making millions of dollars while the country as a whole suffers because of bad banking practices.
- In every business transaction, somebody gains, and somebody loses.
- If a country with less than 5% of the world’s population uses 25% of the world’s resources, steps should be taken to reduce that country’s consumption.
- Criminals who commit crimes because of trauma or abuse in their childhood should be given special consideration in the application of penalties.
- Among the nations, malnutrition, crime, poverty and other social ills are caused in part by the world’s burgeoning overpopulation.
- The economy should be a free market, but the government may sometimes need to make sure that the prices of needed goods are fair.
- The world is basically getting more evil and corrupt, and will continue to do so until Jesus comes.
- Unless the government intervenes, the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.
- We should vote for Christian leaders so that when they are in power, they can get prayer and the Bible-reading back into public schools.
- The Gospel should address poverty and injustice by altering the social systems that cause these ills.
- The most Christian form of government would be one in which everyone shared equally with everyone else.
- The Founding Fathers were mostly deists and agnostics who recognized the need to have separation of church and state.
- Our government should make sure that every citizen receives the basic necessities for living.
- Some subjects in school, such as science and math, are basically religiously “neutral”, that is, they do not have religious content or a Biblical purpose.
- History is the record of conflict between the rich and powerful against the poor and oppressed.
0 = strongly disagree
1 = disagree somewhat
2 = agree somewhat
3 = strongly agree

February 2nd, 2010 at 12:49 PM
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2. 0
3. 0
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5. 0
6. 0 or 3, depending on the facts and circumstances
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8. 3
9. 0
10. 0, other factors may change the imbalance
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12. 0×1000
13. 0×1000
14. not sure
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16. 1.5 – they can be, but they are not
17. 0