The Jews tried to stone Jesus for blasphemy. Why? He claimed he was God, their views on God are tantamount in many ways to the Muslim view on God. He is one, and any who claim otherwise deserve death.

Abortion sickens me, I can see no good ethical reasoning for a mother to kill her child. Having the potential to become life is good enough for me, regardless of whether or not the fetus is actually a human.

Big government and overly powerful corporations go hand in hand. Corporations in many ways control the government using bought out officials. They create new regulations to stifle the competition and increase their profits. If we decrease the size of government we actually decrease the power of big business.

One thing I have to say, Marriage is in my opinion explicitly tied to religious tradition. I have absolutely no problems with domestic partnerships, my understanding is that in a domestic partnership a couple is treated legally the same as a married couple. They just aren't officially "married".

Ron Paul is my guy, I have yet to find anything in his platform where I was like, wow that dude is wrong.

This is my experience in school, teachers give homework and then don't fill up their class time. I have had hour upon hour of downtime even following the completion of a homework assignment. I see no problem with the idea of homework, but I do feel teachers need to "teach" more.

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So, it still destroys the "there is evil, God is perfect, therefore God must not exist" argument.

Ok, so get on a different debate...The question is Christianity or Atheism there is no third option.

The site also addresses M-theory, however QLG doesn't appear to be on there.

This addresses the idea that God "has no more gaps to hide in."

Magic does not solve it...God is not magic...Just like we are not magic.

He said "true", not that people don't have different standards of morality.

Yes but in order to institute a classless society it must come from the top down, hence government.

Ok, but its unclear how which is what I meant.

Well considering time is viewed as being linear, for God to exist outside of our time, or infinitely, he would have to be rather than in a line of time where everything has a cause and effect, in a plane of time, where this is not necessary and God can move about as often as he likes and wherever he likes. I always imagine a x axis as our time, and the addition of a y axis, as Gods time.

His men were terrified of elephants not Indians. After having fought a battle in which a small number of elephants 30-50 were mustered by the Indians (and winning) rumors of thousands of such creatures coming towards them compelled them to retreat. Any man or at least most men who had never encountered such beasts and were then forced to face the prospect of battling thousands of them would opt for the same thing.

I agree, actions speak louder than words, if you truly want to convert someone treat them civilly. This is what the Bible teaches and it is a principle that I have been trying to incorporate, in fact in my opinion this can be clearly seen by my remarks on this site with started out with more than a hint of anger, and I hope have begun to be more and more kind and civil.

I oppose government control on peoples lives, which is why I oppose Communism.

I hear ya, but I still think you would be happier if you were to really pursue God, Run the Race as the apostles did, Paul being a remarkable example, he found it within himself to rejoice even when he was in prison. A remarkable achievement I think.

I agree with you, I wish everyone was like Jesus myself included. But Jesus believed in the OT. Anyone who truly wishes to be like him ought to as well. Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism, in fact Jewish Christians were often called "Messianic Jews". Christianity is a religion, but when people say it isn't what I think they are trying to do is highlight the differences between it and other religions.

Sorry, I keep coming back to things, but correct me if I'm wrong. When you describe the virtual particles you are talking about the Higs-Boson. Energy becoming matter, because last time I checked there was no direct evidence of this...

You're right, I define success as achieving happiness, wealth is just one way to pursue that.

You're right, I really didn't have a point, I was just being contrary. Communism...I dislike it.

No, I think it is possible to achieve a measure of happiness without religion. However, I was not happy before I found God, so there is something to do with it.

Yes because quarreling is a sign of inaccuracy. I am going to use the classic Atheist argument, Geo-Centrism...

Actually, what I am suggesting is that God has always existed because he exists in at least two dimensions of time, rather than a line a plane. The Bible describes this quite well with the phrase Alpha and Omega. Quite frankly our notions of time may be wrong, I really don't know...

I think his last remark means that you believe it to be a fact that non-human intelligent self aware beings exist, and that this can be used to disprove religion when in fact there is less evidence for this than religion.

Yes, as a matter of fact Abraham Lincoln committed some horrible transgressions against states rights in the civil war.

But what we do know is that something had to start it because it has a beginning...

They are distinguishable, through doctrines like the Trinity.

Concerning the education, although I agree those with higher education typically have a higher standard of living, before our current era wealth caused greater education not the other way around.

I couldn't agree more, most churches I visit depress me as well. The church I regularly go to however does not, in fact it makes me happy mostly because everyone else is happy.

No, they are not the same God, Islam has their god we have ours. Baptist and Lutheran does not necessarily mean Christian although they probably believe in the Trinity I really don't know, Mormons have an entirely different belief about God than orthodox Christianity.

The difference between Islam and Christianity is Jesus, that is the central difference between Christianity and every other religion.

Certainly they are materially satisfied. But are they truly happy, it seems to me people are only happy when they are according to Maslow, fully self actualized.

Ok, beliefs are a part of it, but faith without works is useless, and works without faith is similarly useless. I stand corrected...sort of.

They are not the same deity, if they were Islamic we could tell.

Thats not true, just because the majority of Americans stay within a class of their parents doesn't mean that that is the sole core. In fact I would say that the majority of Americans don't work hard enough to be upper class, or their not intelligent enough etc.

Its an oligarchy not a monopoly.

And how would you like to be starving...See what that accomplished?

Although I agree with you in that they would not be known as Christians, and the stories very well may be different, assuming Christianity is true then their God would be the same as our God.

As a matter of fact Faith without works is useless and works without faith is similarly useless, this is what the Bible teaches, your God helps those who help themselves is hardly a new concept to Christians. "Seek and you will find." Another example where the individual must do before anything happens.

I agree Atheists are wrong, and agnostics ought to figure it out, but you are bad at this...

You seem like the type to do this so I will respond in kind..."Most atheists are rather happy people."

Prove it...

Christian is not just something that one claims to be, I agree there are many self proclaimed Christians out there, that does not mean they are Christian. Christianity is a way of life not a set of beliefs.

I think its cool....ju st getting the ball rollin.

Sorry in this post I was talking about your link.

Heres the link , check it out get back to me.......