Based on this post in your thread about LGBT tolerance, it strongly suggests that the answer is either Catholic or Orthodox Christian.
Gonna have to agree there. Minus a ‘u’ of course. 
Many of us aren’t fulfilling His purposes. There are some who are striving to do so.
It’s actually kind of hard to just be “a waste”, since that would mean balancing between positive and negative.
Many millions of people are outright predatory and destructive; quite a bit worse than merely a waste.
I find it interesting that a number of my fellow commenters here have been troubled by my specifying Americans, and have wondered whether implicit in the formulation was an exclusion of non-Americans.
My question is: Is it true that posing a question which specifies a sub-set within a category necessarily implies the exclusion of other sub-sets from the question?
For example: If I - or anyone - were to say: “isn’t there a need that more U.S. jobs be created?” would anyone take away the impression that the question implied, “whether more jobs overseas are created is unimportant.”
Quick note to all who have expected a reply:
Thanks for your patience. Am hoping to reply to all questions and comments on this thread during breaks from doing all the chores and errands that most of us have to do on the weekends. Am hoping to complete all replies by tomorrow evening.
(P.S. Question: would my mention of “chores and errands” this weekend, imply that I don’t expect to do anything fun or relaxing this weekend? Or on any weekend?
. . . nor that men are capable of determining what that purpose is and whether it has been fulfilled…
As Richard Russo wrote, of a character in his novel, “Something could have been done about him once, but nobody did.” If nobody does, who is to blame for the outcome?
Aren’t we all our brothers’ keepers?
There is currently a raging debate in this about about people who grew up in America, but are not “Americans” (I.e. citizens). Lots and lots of people consider then as “wastes” of resources, and worth less than “real” Americans.
**Is any American “a waste”?
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Some are, most aren’t.
Is any citizen of <fill in the blank> a waste?
Some are, most aren’t.
(Sigh) I’m sure you’re right Skara_Brae.
Most of the people in my life would not willingly spend time conversing with people who hold such views. Except, in some cases we might try to talk with them in the hope that our doing so might help them.
All of us - without exception - are made in the image and likeness of our God, and are therefore most sacred. On some planets, it is said to rain diamonds. Beyond compare to a rainstorm of diamonds, is each and every man, woman, and child, of whatever condition, age, station, nationality, creed, color, tongue, occupation, capacity, legal status, or ability.
This is not to say, however, that the duties and obligations we have to one another cannot be compared according to our condition, age, relationship, ability, and to the age, relationship, ability, and condition of our neighbor. For example, among Christians we would say that we owe a duty of care for our fellow man and woman, in general, but we owe first a special duty of care to our own aged, infirm parents or grandparents, and to our own young children . . . so much so, that if, for a time, our aged relatives and our young children were to receive virtually all our limited time and resources, we would be doing well in that case.
This is not to say that our own relatives are “worth more” than those of our next-door neighbor. It’s just that we have a special obligation to allocate our time and resources first to our aged parents and to our young children, to see to their needs first, and then to the needs of our neighbor’s parents and children.
What about a chocolate rain? Or a shower of gold?
What about giant gas? Or better yet, gas giants?
“It is said” is a junk statement of no worth whatsoever unless you identify who “they” are and in what context they said it.
Well, many people would agree with you there, Czarcasm.
I agree that the phrase is sometimes used carelessly. If you’ll check the link I provided to Darren Garrison (above), you’ll see that “it is said,” in this case, is a phrase used to indicate that the people saying it are very knowledgeable and accomplished in the field which studies the subject around whatever it is, and, while there isn’t yet hard proof of it, these people feel there’s strong reason to hypothesize it.
In this case, the people are astrophysicists, the field is astrophysics, and it is the precipitation of crystallized carbon (diamonds) on other planets.
And I promise that, whenever in the future I should use the phrase, it is said, you may rely on the substratum, I just described supporting it.
Poppycock.
You misunderstand–I wasn’t questioning the existence of diamond rain–I was asking about the relative worth of chocolate rain and showers of gold in relation to “each and every man, woman, and child, of whatever condition, age, station, nationality, creed, color, tongue, occupation, capacity, legal status, or ability.”
OK. Fair enough, Sam.
Thanks for weighing in.
Hope to hear from you again soon.
I’m sorry, I have no useful information about the entities you refer to, in relation to the value of a human person.
I’d be interested in any further academic or scientific research, especially with links, you may wish to provide.
Thanks so much for your replies.