Stay out, and you may lose trade with some other countries. Join up, and you risk are giving up a significant chunk of your nation's sovereignty regarding decisions that effect big business. (Which is creeping closer and closer to being

Very few wars religions were caued by religions. Wars generally are caused by things like greed, vengeance, intolerance, resource inequalities, and dozens of other such factors. If religion caused war, then the entire planet would be in more or

Actually, daedalus, no he didn't. That was a rather bad mistranslation. Shortly after that particular line came out, the correct translation was announced, and many people connected to it were feeling sort of sheepish... but as the media didn't

Look at it this way: The man puts in a few minutes work. Strictly speaking he contributes NOTHING to the child other than a tiny bit of DNA and some cytoplasm until after it's born. The woman spends spends 9 months undergoing massive

One interesting thing on this subject, is that there have been some recent attempts to re-translate the bible from the oldest known sources. As anyone who has experience with multiple languages knows, translation can be really quite tricky.