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In practice all the religious politicians who have passed abortion law and pro choice Trump who's supported it, and the millions of religious people who get abortions....justify it How? Label it how? Like you do maybe, by always redirecting any and all blame perceived to exist onto the secular...

I take your point. I'll try to explain. I totally agree with with you that morality is based on what a specific society believes is moral at any point in time. But that means morality evolves, alters and hopefully develops for the better over time. So changing, removing, altering parts of...

I think you would find it hard to maintain that in any society where say for instance defenseless children were being harmed, there would not be a majority of those who would instinctively and naturally be reacting against it, irrespective of societal pressure or being told what to do or not to...

Well there's a myth if there ever was one. If there is decay in the moral fabric of society it's nonsense to say it's from people deciding on their own what is good or bad. All societies of every kind pretty much inhibit that in general and always have. To say religion , specifically Christian...

Well if I don't see it, having "In God We Trust" stamped all over everything hasn't worked. But if morality isn't coming from a good number of rational humans, then there's even less chance it is going to be coming from irrational ones with silly religious mottoes, in my view.

Indeed, however the Courts didn't create a big problem as they have no choice but to be involved in the issue. It was the shallow weak mindedness of self-interest politicians 60 odd years ago who caused and created the problem, not the Courts. The very fact that the Establishment clause had to...

"Do No Evil" is as good a moral compass as anything. Certainly has more to do with morality than a jealous vengeful God concept designed to frighten children and people who should know better into doing whatever they are being told is right or good. Morality comes before God or religion...

I think it certainly was required and may always be needed for the Courts to maintain and confirm to those concerned that when the state prints the word God on currency by passing law, it has nothing to do with the Establishment Clause which forbids passing law respecting an establishment of...

Exactly, so if it isn't an endorsement of anything including religion, why is it even there other than to appease eccentric religionists.

if you are just interested in H4M's response it's a bit nuts of you to answer me and if the phrase is so trivial, as you say, why do you care if it is removed? Apart from the fact that the vast majority of Americans used to believe in slavery too , the court is declaring that the phrase...

That doesn't read like you're trying to be funny.

Curious here too. Do you really have a problem with it not being on money? Interestingly, Abraham Lincoln had a problem with it being in the Constitution. One reason of course why it isn't. As the Court states, "In God We Trust" doesn't amount to a religious endorsement, but rather an...

Luke sad, Jesus clearly wrong. What you describe is theocracy, proven bad on so many levels, over a very long time and thoroughly detrimental to society, as still observed in the Middle East and parts of Asia. Basically un-American and directly contrary to founding principles. in matters of...

If the events portrayed in Bible Luke aren't fictional, then events portrayed in this Book of Luke aren't fictional either, and did actually happen a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

for belief in God?... Much wiser folks than me say one pays from the loss of rationality and integrity.

Well, it's called belief because it's not knowledge.:)

No offense intended but 61 years to not know 1/1000th of 1% about something "(especially God)" and not have many answers about it, is no reason to believe in it. Shouldn't you be more discerning with your beliefs rather than placing them in a not known about "Almighty"?

buggerall?

The Christian story is that God first created humans with original sin and then destroyed them for their sin. Then God, who is also Jesus, impregnated a woman with himself in order to be born so that he could sacrifice himself to himself to save humans from the sin that he made them have in the...

To pull a stunt at a time that would seem to be counter productive can be used to give plausible deniability. Calculating devious megalomaniacs like Assad and Putin would see that at the front of their handbooks.