I think that if a church runs a business that competes with non-church businesses, such as day care centers, they should be taxed on the income from that business.
I think women on welfare who continue to have children are idiots.
I believe that both cloning and stem cell research should be allowed.
I believe that drug addicted mothers should be given free birth control.
I believe that child killers–particularly those who kill their own children–should be permenantly sterilized.
Pedophilia is not a crime, it’s a mental illness which may or may not manifest itself as criminal behavior. Most driver error is not due to stupidity but to carelessness, which IQ does not assess.
I think people should have to go through an extensive application process before they are approved for breeding.
I also think people should be sterilized after they have two kids. There’s no reason anyone needs more than two.
I think the world would be a better place if everyone became vegetarian.
I think everyone should have equal (read: free) access to college education and health care.
I almost forgot this, but it shouldn’t be controversial:
I think athletes/actors/models should be paid under $1 million per year for doing what they love anyway.
I think outlawing abortion is a step down the road to abolishing all women’s rights.
I think Fundamentalist Christians – particularly those who sit on school boards or are heavily involved in politics – are a bigger threat to the United States than the “terrorists” we keep hearing about on the news.
PETA, ALF, and ELF should be dealt with as terrorists.
I have no problem with homosexual marriage.
I’m all for stem cell research.
If your dog attacks and maims/kills a home intruder, the dog should not be put down.
I don’t understand what’s so great about iPods – I’ve been listening to MP3s on my PDA since 2000.
I think it’s fine to use credit cards, as long as you don’t spend beyond your means to repay when your paycheck arrives.
Child beauty pageants are a form of child abuse. So is forcing a child to participate in too many extracurricular activities in addition to school.
Melted cheese is nasty, except when applied in a thin layer to a pizza.
I think most humanities courses taught in college are waste of time.
I believe that a lot of good could come from bring back the prohibition of alcohol and being more vigilant about enforcing this than the last time around. As a trade off, pot should be made legal since it also makes people happy but doesn’t lead to as much violence and vehicular homicide.
I don’t think teenagers should have sex. No, not even those in their late teens.
I think after a second abortion a woman should be urged to consider voluntary sterilization.
There should be a law against using cell phones in a moving vehicle. Any exceptions should be made on an applied-for permit basis, which would primarily be for people in the medical and law enforcement professions.
I believe we should worry a lot less about self-esteem and a lot more about teaching the basics of spelling and grammar. I’m not convinced that parts of the south and west currently teach either of these things at all. And apparently in New England we’ve forgone teaching the proper spellings of complicated words such as “maybe,” “know,” and “now.”
I’m not fully convinced that Kurt Cobain committed suicide.
I believe professional sports are the opiate of the masses, with religion a very poor second.
I believe most older man/younger woman relationships are pretty fucking sad.
I believe military training got really seriously mindfucking, as well as more apt to save your life in combat, sometime between Korea and Vietnam.
I believe a lot more people would prefer to travel by train than car if there was only more opportunity to do so.
I believe people are just as likely to be ashamed of their good points as they are their bad points.
I believe that Permanent Residents (aka “green card holders”) have an equal right to criticize the government.
I believe that La Leche League has helped a lot of moms to breastfeed successfully.
I believe that Sports should not get an entire section in my newspaper.
I believe that there is no sane reason to oppose gay marriage, and if the compromise is “civil unions”, then I believe straights should be allowed to choose civil unions too.
I believe that you should argue with your local government officials over something so small as an 85 cent fine if you believe in the principle. (Did it yesterday.)
I believe that property tax discounts for veterans regardless of income or need are bogus feel-good propaganda. I also believe I would be drummed out of town and called anti-American if I said this at my next town meeting when the issue comes up to raise the discount once again.
I don’t believe everyone fighting in Iraq is automatically a hero.
I believe there is evil in the world, and it takes advantages of the weak, the willing and especially the wise.
I believe most people are closer to agreement in most things, moreso than anyone is willing to admit.
I believe circumcision is not only ok, but it is desirable, nay, optimal.
I believe most of us are going to hell, and rightly so.
I believe that all politicians are asswipes, by definition. The only people willing to run for office, are exactly the same people who shouldn’t be in office.
I believe that suing the tobacco companies was nothing other than a grab for cash.
I believe that my taxes should not be going for need brand new offices, or Expeditions, or top of the line anything. Remember when public servants were just that? Shouldn’t be allowed to buy things with my tax money, that I am not able to buy for myself, nor would choose to spend money on.
I believe there is a media bias. I believe there is a education bias as well. Neither of them work that effectively.
I believe we are destroying the earth, and some day there will be a pandemic, and all those people that have said for all these years “Real estate is a great investment, they ain’t making anymore land…” forgot the other half of the equation. If there are no people to buy your land, doesn’t matter.
I think it is stupid to live in the desert, or anywhere that you couldn’t live without infrastructure.
I believe that hereditary monarchy is superior to democracy or republicanism.
I believe that it is long past time for a new Tsar’ to be annointed, as it has been 88 years since the last one (Tsar’ Nikolai II) was murdered. I believe that, there being no better candidates at the moment, Vladimir Putin should go ahead and have himself annointed as such.
I believe that retaking Constantinople for Christendom is a laudable goal, and believe the prophecies of Emperor St. Constantine IX Palaeologus, Elder Paisios, and others, that Constantinople will once again belong to the Romans, that the Roman Empire will rise again and its emperor seated on the throne in Constantinople, that the Turks will be driven out of Anatolia, and that the Divine Liturgy will once again be offered in the Great Church of Hagia Sophia.
I don’t believe in a 9/11 conspiracy, but do believe that Bush & Co. are damn glad it happened, because of what they could do as a result, and if they could go back and prevent it, they wouldn’t.
I also believe Bush doesn’t give a good goddamn about dead Iraqi children and babies.
This would be controversial how? Seems fairly obvious to me.
I believe that college campuses beat out Primitive Baptist church Sunday schools for repressiveness and conscious suppression of free speech and honest debate. I also believe that this is a direct result of 60’s radicalism.
I believe that whatever the stated goals of Islam are, the religion as a whole is rapidly being dragged into the gutter by spittle-flecked sociopaths with lots of cash while the peaceful Muslims who could make a difference if they grew a pair just kind of sit around with their thumbs up their asses wondering why all the non-muslims are so pissed off at them.
I believe that Dubya has stopped snorting coke and started freebasing it–OK, I don’t believe that, but I’d lay money on his being a drunk. While I don’t believe that he is the worst president of all time (That honor goes to James Buchanan), I do believe that he is easily the worst president in my lifetime, and that one would have to go back to Warren Harding to find anyone even close to his ignorance, corruption and general stupidity.
I believe that Catholics in Boston should stop praying for the church to spare their parishes from shutdowns and start praying directly to God begging him not to smite them dead for willingly being part of a church whose administration actively participated in, covered up, and excused child molestation. Seriously, do these guys suffer from cognitive dissonance, or have they just not read the papers since 2002?
I believe all political and economic systems are bad, but i also believe that our species as a whole will never be responsible enough to handle anarchy.
I believe there may be more to the Masons than just a benevolent organization of social leaders. Things like the former decorations at the Denver airport and the prolificness of people in power flashing the hook’em horns sign in public make me think there’s a big joke that the average schlub like me will never be let in on. We are nothing more than fodder as far as those in charge are concerned.
Revolution would probably be good for western countries, but most of us, including me, are far too comfortable to upset the apple cart.
I am the funniest person alive.
If alcohol and tobacco are legal, and they should be, then other recreational drugs should be as well.
Everyone should have free health care.
Darwinism applies to cultures and species, not individuals. Society is purposely built to protect its inhabitants, whether they be weak or strong. But all societies die, and none will ever avoid this fact.
No one who can’t actually get pregnant should have any say about abortion. i don’t like abortion, butit’s nothing more than an abstraction for me, since I will never be faced with being pregnant.
Cell phones have a profoundly isolating and negative impact on society, as do networked computers.
I believe from reading what other people believe that the members of this board don’t necessarily need evidence or reason to support what they believe.
It’s taking longer than we thought.
Believing something is one thing. Being unwilling to look at evidence opposing one’s belief is another. But yeah, we all have our pet theories and beliefs that aren’t entirely rational.
My wife just reminded me of some more controversial beliefs I have:
All dogs go to heaven.
All cats go to hell, but don’t worry about them. Cats run hell. They’re people size and we evildoers are mouse size. You have to work your way up to undying worms and lakes of fire, if you’re a human in hell.
If only they let you un-volunteer after they start the war. What you think you’re signing on for and what you end up actually doing generally don’t have much to do with each other.
[li]The erosion of civil liberty is a threat to national security.[/li]Iran was pursuing nuclear energy, not nuclear power.
I believe a lot of people on this board are far more stupid than they think they are. (probably including me).