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You two are doing a great job keeping this conversation civil. I commend you. My two cents: It doesn't matter what the Founders believed or what laws they enacted or refrained from enacting at the time the nation began. The only thing that matters is what the eight men and one woman on the...

I dunno about most a dis stuff, but if Cain's wife was hot she would be Sugar Cain. Ar ar ar ar ar ar!

OK, that video is genius!

You don't need to reassure them -- you're their physician, not their pastor. You tell the chances of recovery, and follow up with "If you would like to speak with a minster or a rabbi, let the nurse know and they can give you the phone number of..." Then you go on to the next patient, because...

"First, do no harm," right? If faith is only a security blanket, and nothing more, but it makes some people feel better, then why deprive them of it? Whether the prayer works or not is immaterial to the dying. But, if it helps the living, then who are we to steal that security from them when...

Come on, man. Anyone who's ever been three years old remembers that at that age they knew FOR CERTAIN, the natura of the universe! It's only us old people who can't comprehend. Although, a young woman's nipples still look like the entire universe to me -- just not my mama's! LOL!

I think you misread or I miscommunicated my post, because we are saying the same thing with different words. I am simply stating that "if" God could be permanently nailed down in any way, that part of God would cease to be God, because God could no longer change that property. This is a non...

In order for God to remain limitless, omnipotent and almighty, he/she/it must remain beyond all understanding and measurement, because in the operation of confirming God's existence by the scientific method, which requires verification of hypothesis by repeatable experiment, some quality of God...

Well, then it's a good thing I never made the argument that you conclude is illogical. Was there anything else you wanted to discuss on this issue or are you done?

I am not judging anyone's faith. I am questioning their actions and asking them whether any inconsistency between the two bothers them. I have difficulty not being able to square my beliefs with my actions. Apparently you don't, or you wouldn't be arguing for me to agree that there is...

I don't know the mind of God. Neither do you. What I DO know is that people whose belief systems permit them the lattitude to excuse their actions, based on good intentions, frequently do just that, and the result is quite often serious injury to others. Such behavior is a textbook...

I already stated that the quote needed to be qualified because I was referring to those people whose belief systems permit them to believe one way and yet act differently. So, your quote no longer accurately represents my query, therefore there is no reason for me to defend it.

The question and the photo are irrelevant. It is only your unsupported opinion that the manifestation of love is felt in the heart not seen in the mind. I am not interested in the love of a person who shows no manifestation of their love for me, because without the manifestation, the love...

LOL! Now it's my turn to laugh for a change. Being loved without any manifestation of that love is meaningless. You may sense the manifestation of God's love in the feelings that you have for God. I don't have any feelings for God, so I sense no manifestation of his love. For you to...

Common sense should answer your question. It should also suggest that if you have nothing of value to contribute, that maybe your time would be better served by not contributing. So perhaps you have as little common sense as the rest of us.

We may be arguing over the definition of "knowledge." Your previous post was filled with what I would define as "knowledge" about God and God's plan. But, you have no such knowledge according to my definition. You have your feelings, faiths and beliefs. If you define "knowlege" of God as...

Your post presumes that you know the mind of God. This is the same allegation that you claim flaws my thought process. You may know the feeling of spiritual awareness, but you will never quantify it in any measurable fashion. God cannot be verified by any natural process and still remain God.

So, I'm not judging the validity of a person's choice of religious belief system. I'm questioning how that person rationalizes the inconsistency between Earthly political structures and God's apparently preferred system. If God "is" God, and he thought that democracy would be a terrific...

Luther's position also seems contradictory to me. I don't profess any insider's knowledge of Christianity, but as long as the faithful are ultimately judged by God based on His sole authority as to what is right/good or wrong/evil, then that is not democracy, representative or otherwise. The...

Maybe I miscommunicated. I should have restricted this thought to worship of the traditional monotheistic deity who is characterized by being a paternalistic, judgmental overseer of creation. Admittedly, there are other views of God that do not require this belief system. But, for the typical...